General News

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31862, 14 December 1968, Page 12

General News

By The Million A shipment of a million empty 260 z New Zealand beer bottles has arrived in Sydney to relieve the Christmas bottled beer shortage. The bottles were exported to Australia by the New Zealand Glass Manufacturers’ Company at Penrose. Weighing 8700 tons, they were shipped from Auckland last week in the freighter Konui. There have been no follow-up orders so far.—(P.A.). Fifth Hercules The fifth ski-equipped Hercules to be assigned to the United States Navy’s VX6 Squadron is due in Christchurch at 8 a.m. today. The $3.5m aircraft will be accepted in a brief ceremony at the airport this morning by the commanding officer of the squadron (Commander E. W. Van Reeth), and the Rev. G. Creagh, administrator of the Holy Cross Chapel, will give a benediction. After two days of maintenance checks the Hercules will make its maiden flight to the Antarctic. Because of bad weather the 10,000-mile flight from Quonset Point, Rhode Island, was delayed several times. $2200 Raised Brent Hussey, aged 14, of 79 Harris Crescent, and Helen Broadhurst, aged eight, of 43 Wilton Crescent, will each receive a transistor radio or a watch for raising the most money in a recent walk in aid of the Y.M.C.A. camp at Wainui. The general secretary of the association (Mr R. J. O’Kane) said that more than $2200 was raised and the younger walkers did so well that it had been decided to increase the groups of prizes from five to eight. Brent Hussey raised $63 and Helen Broadhurst raised $6O. The winner of the nine-year group raised $49 ..nd the winner of the 11-year group raised $4O. Other place-get-ters in the eight groups raised from $4.50 to $35. Liner’s Visit , About 160 passengers aboard the 23,629-ton luxury passenger liner Achille Lauro, which will berth at Lyttelton at 6 a.m. today, will make shore excursions. Buses will pick up the passengers i at the ship’s side. Some will make a half-day tour of the hills, harbour and the city, ■ and others will go to Akaroa. 1 The liner will leave at 6 p.m. It is one of the first liners . to use Lyttelton for disembarking and taking on pas- 1 sengers on the Tasman service. i Ice Thicker i Three United States Coast Guard ice-breakers are cutting a channel through thick pack ice in McMurdo Sound to McMurdo Station. This season the ice is thicker in the sound than it has been ifor four years and floes are iup to 6ft thick. Several days ago the ice-breakers—the Glacier, Southwind and Burton Island—reached the landfast ice, Bft thick, 40 miles i north-west of McMurdo Sta- ; tion and began cutting a i three mile channel. 1 New Training Vessel ’ H.M.N.Z.S. Manga, the new , training vessel attached to ' H. Pegasus, will be , commissioned at Auckland to- , day by the commanding offi- | cer of the Canterbury divis- j ion of the Royal New Zea- , land Naval Volunteer Re- . serve (Commander R. F. San- j derson). The Manga is expec- j ted at Lyttelton on Tuesday. ! Lottery Draw J | The Golden Kiwi lottery, ; No. 360 will be drawn on Monday. 1 ■ Lyttelton Shopping The Lyttelton Business As- ’ sociation has advised that late shopping will be observed on Friday, December 20, Christmas Eve, December 24, and again on New Year’s Eve, December 31. World Weather World weather on Thursday as compiled by the Associated Press and Reuters, was: London, 36 degrees minimum, 41 degrees maximum, ! clear; Paris, 25, 34, overcast; Rome, 41, 54, rainy; Berlin, 14, 23, sunny; Amsterdam, 11, 30, sunny; Brussels, 24, 30, cloudy; Madrid, 41, 50, sunny; Moscow, 7, 25, overcast; Stockholm, 19, 32, sunny; New York, 15, 34, clear; Buenos Aires, 73, 101, sunny; Montreal, -2, 18, cloudy; Johannesburg, 57, 78, fine; Singapore, 75, 87, showers; Hong Kong, 70, 81, cloudy; Sydney, 58, 73, fine. Fishing Rivers The North Canterbury Aclimatisation Society reports the condition of rivers as: Waiau, dirty; Hurunui, discoloured; Ashley, clear and - fishable: Waimakariri. discoloured at gorge and mouth; Selwyn, clear and fishable; Rakaia, discoloured but fish- , able at mouth; Ashburton and . Rangitata, clear and fishable.