Ferry Not Ready Until May
(New Zealand, Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 9. The new inter-island roll-on ferry Wahine, which was to have been delivered from the Fairfield shipyard, Scotland, last October, will not be completed until the end of April or early May.
Mr F. K. Macfarlane, general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company for which the Wahine is being built, said the company had been advised that delivery would be delayed for a further four or five weeks from the last tentative date given bj’ the builders. The reason was a labour shortage both in the shipyard and in sub-contractors’ works. The further delay was not only extremely costly to the
company, but disappointing, he said. A Lot Of Nothing A comprehensive exhibition of nothing has been mounted in Hamburg by a group of creative artists. Among the exhibits: Picture frames with blank canvasses; books with blank pages; tape recordings of silence. The entrance fee is nothing.— London, February 8.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30981, 10 February 1966, Page 1
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