General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 20

General News

Big Mail The Auckland Chief Postmaster (Mr E. K Moriarty) aaM toctay that a record 7| tons of air mail from Britain, 1 Europe and the United States ted been received at the weekend.—(PA.) Mainly Cloudy A change in wind direction from light south-westerlies to light north-easterlies after 8 a.m. brought mainly cloudy weather with moderate temperatures to Christchurch yesterday. The temperature at Harewood at 6 a.m. was 48 degrees and it rose from S 3 degrees at 9 a.m. to 56 degrees by noon. At 3 p.m. the temperature was 60 degrees and at the Botanic Gardens it was 61 degrees. At 4.15 pin. the gauge on the Government Life building registered 64 degrees. N.Z. Ship At McMurdo H.M.N.Z.S. Endeavour was yesterday escorted into McMurdo Sound by the United States Navy ice-breaker. Glacier. The New Zealand Antarctic supply ship was expected to arrive in Winter Quarters Bay late yesterday provided the weather was good and the ice not too troublesome. The other two American icebreakers, the Atka and the Burton Island, spent the day clearing the shipping channel for the Endeavour. Jews To Meet Nearly 90 young Australians will fly into Auckland next Sunday to attend a twoweek Jewish convention near Hamilton. They will be join ed by 60 New Zealanders. All are members of the Austra iasian B’nai B’rith Youth Council whose ages range from 17 to 28. (PA.).