LAUNCHING OF SHIP

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31658, 19 April 1968, Page 12

LAUNCHING OF SHIP

Significance For Timaru (From Our Own Reporter> TIMARU, April 17. The launching of the Port Caroline on the Upper Clyde has a significance for the people of Timaru and South Canterbury, because it is almost certain that Caroline Bay took its name from the whaling barque owned by the Sydney firm of R. Campbell and Company. She probably was the first at Timaru of the many ships which engaged in bay whaling round the New Zealand coast. Captain Blenkinsopp, of Port Underwood, Cloudy Bay, was her skipper in the early 1830 s and, in 1834, he shipped in her several escaped convicts at Sydney for his shore station. Later masters were Captain Cherry, who was killed by the Maoris near Mana Island, and James Bruce. The Caroline is mentioned more than once as cruising for sperm whales. In 1837, she was bought by John Jones, who was then living in Sydney, and who had several shore stations from Waikouaiti to Preservation Inlet. The vessel was undoubtedly the same Caroline as the 400-ton barque wrecked at New River Heads on April 1, 1860. This barque had been bought by Jones Cargill and Company, which intended to convert her to a store ship at Invercargill. Dr D. L. Cropp was yesterday elected chairman of the Shirley Boys’ High School board of governors to replace Mr D. W. Rutherford, who has been transferred from Christchurch. Mr A. Shaw was elected deputy-chairman.

students and a solid slice of 'the pure scientists”; that is, the writer dismisses those studies which can lead to the elevation of the human spirit. What is left is technology, of which the physicist, Heisenberg, who is too important for even “The Times” supplement to wipe, writes: "It can make what it wills, but it cannot I will what it makes”: that is, gadgets breed gadgets. We have the hideously wasteful and socially pointless achievements in pooping off expensive hardware into space; we have the uninteresting and obvious computer; and we have wireless and television, which last, strong mechandising forces are determined to take over in their holy war to ear-bash the individuality out of us. Politicians support technology because they are practical men; that is, they “respect the mistakes of their ancestors.”—Yours, etc., J. DUGDALE. April 18, 1968.