General News

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31590, 30 January 1968, Page 14

General News

Special Guest Air Commodore A. E. Clouston, who, with Victor Ricketts, set a long-distance flight record in the mid-30s between the United Kingdom ] and New Zealand in a de Hav- , illand Comet, is to be guest of s honour at the Marlborough ‘ Aero Club’s fortieth anniver- > sary vintage pageant at c Easter. Air Commodore t Clouston, now in England, is s an honorary member of the club. ' Lesson For N.Z.? { The rapid development of * mineral resources in Western , Australia was an example of f how a State could be devel- j oped if government and priv- f ate enterprise were prepared j to provide the encouragement j and risk money, said Mr J. H. i Lord, of the Geological Survey of Western Australia, in t a paper presented to the ; A.N.Z.A.A.S. congress yester- t day. “Perhaps New Zealand < could learn from the Western j Australian development pat- t tern,” Mr Lord said. “1 feel i sure that New Zealand will become a far greater producer < of minerals when the right I companies are given suffici- : ent of the right type of en- 1 couragement to carry out the < extensive exploration which 1 is required to find new min- ! eral deposits.” ’ i “No Longer Apply” 1 The conditions which ] caused a number of future , New Zealand Labour Minis- ] ters to leave their native Aus- , tralia for New Zealand (and j New Zealand’s good) 60 years ; ago no longer applied, said 1 Professor J. D. B. Miller, to . the A.N.Z.A.A.S. congress yes- i terday. Henry Lawson’s gen- i eralisation of the 1890 s, he 1 said, sounded strange now: “The Australian marries 1 young and poor; and when he can no longer live in his 1 native land he sells his furniture, and buys a steerage ticket to New Zealand or Western Australia. . . .” Australian waitresses and shop assistants still went to work in New Zealand, said. Professor Miller, but few men in search of a career. 11,000 Signatures The entertainment and decorations at the Selwyn Street home of Mr R. H. Still--1 well that have been a Christmas-New Year feature in Christchurch for several years will end on Friday night. The display of dolls will be closed then and on Sunday Mr Stillwell will turn out the lights that have decorated his home and garden since before Christmas and have attracted thousands of visitors from many parts of New Zealand. There are i nearly 11,000 signatures in ■ his visitors’ book, “and that i represents only a half or a I third of the people who have . been here,” he said last evening. ’ Changing Scene “It Is encouraging to see t this first step towards Lyttel- : ton’s new post office,” the Mayor of Lyttelton (Mr J. B. i Collett) said yesterday, refer- - ring to the beginning of the i demolition of three shops and s some office premises on the > corner of London Street and Canterbury Street. Lyttelton 1 has been promised a new post s office there to repla a the » existing building in Norwich Quay.