GENERAL NEWS

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 14

GENERAL NEWS

“Not Dead Issue”

Fluoridation was not a dead issue in New Zealand, said the chairman of the council of the New Zealand Dental Association (Mr E. W. Williams, of Auckland) yesterday. More than 60 per cent of centres with reticulated water had fluoridation largely because of the policy the association established in 1955, he said. It would be unreasonable to expect towns which did not have satisfactory water supplies to add fluoridation plant, and for this reason it was not expected that the increase in fluoridated supply would be as dramatic from this point on. Many smaller secondary towns were interested in fluoridation, and the association might ask the Government to assist these centres to impleiment proposals. Building Sold A two-storey brick building at 676 Colombo Street was sold at auction yesterday for $41,000. The Government valuation is $35,700. The building, of 1218 sq. ft on each floor, is subdivided into two shops with right-of-way access from Lichfield Street. The auctioneer was Mr D. O. Chapman, of Ford and Hadfield, Ltd. Minesweeper The former Bathurst-class minesweeper, H.M.N.Z.S. Kiama, is due at Lyttelton from Oamaru on Saturday on a routine training cruise. She is commanded by LieutenantCommander L. Tempera, of Christchurch, and has young ratings aboard doing their initial sea training. The public will be able to inspect the vessel between 2 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. on Sunday. She will sail for Wellington on I Monday. Sunspots A giant group of spots was seen on the sun yesterday by a Christchurch amateur astronomer, Mr B. N. Wilson. Mr Wilson said the grajip appeared to be as large as another complex of spots seen by the Carter Ooservatory, Wellington, in February. This previous group measured 138,000 miles by 134,000 miles and was thought to be the largest since 1947. Mr Wilson who used a 2 Jin telescope, said the spots were fairly centrally situated.

First Flight The National Airways Corporation’s first Boeing 737 made its first flight at the Boeing company’s plant at Seattle yesterday. The Boeing is due to arrive in New Zealand about the middle of next month. Houses Sold Houses at 110 Stapletons Road, Shirley, and 33 Gayhurst Road, Dallington, were sold for $6500 and $4900 at an auction this week. The auctioneers were N. H. McCrostie and Company, Ltd. Cost $lOO,OOO The two-month price freeze which ended on August 19 had cost the Apple and Pear Marketing Board sloo s ooo, its chairman (Mr S. D. Sinclair) told the Canterbury provincial conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, Ltd, yesterday. Prices now were the same as they had been this time last year, though increases had just been made, but no attempt would be made by the board to exploit the local market, he added. World Weather The world’s weather on Tuesday, report the Associated Press and A.A.P.-Reuter, was: Rome 59 degrees minimum, 84 degrees maximum, sunny: Paris 57. 73, sunny; London 59, 70. sunny: Berlin 43, 68, sunny: Amsterdam 63, 68, overcast: Brussels 51, 68, cloudy: Buenos Aires 51, 70, clear: Madrid 67, 90. sunny; Moscow 59, 81, sunny: Stockholm 50, 68, cloudy; New York 65, 76, cloudy; San Francisco 60, 65, clear; Tokyo 77, 88, clear; Mexico City 54, 76, cloudy; Johannesburg 42, 72, fine: Singapore 71, 88, fair: Hong Kong 84, 93, rain; Sydney 55, 66, showers.