General News
Palace Visit
The New Zealand Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) had a private audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace this afternoon. The Prime Minister visited the palace about 2.50 p.m. and returned to Marlborough House for the second session of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ conference about 30 minutes later. During the evening Mr and Mrs Holyoake will attend a dinner at the palace given by her Majesty for visiting Prime Ministers and their wives.—London, Jan. 7. No Gliding Heavy rain prevented any flying at the sixth national gliding championships at Omaratna yesterday. After a briefing in the morning competitors were told it would be an official rest day and most of them spent the time working on their gliders. A meteorologist said that the weather today might be reasonable for gliding. Lunch With Admiral The United States scouts attending the jamboree at Kaiapoi will be the guests of RearAdmiral J. L. Abbot, commander of the United States Navy’s Antarctic support force at lunch on Saturday. Admiral Abbot was a scout in his home town of Mobile, Alabama, from 1930 to 1933 and later organised a cub pack at the Armed Forces College in Norfolk, Virginia. Lottery Draw The Golden Kiwi lottery No. 362 will be drawn in Wei-1 lington on Thursday.—(P.A.)i World Weather The world weather on Monday, according to cable re-1 ports, was: Rome 39 degrees; minimum, 54 degrees maximum, clear; Paris 32, 39, clear; London 32, 36, cloudy: Berlin 9,10, overcast; Amsterdam 30, 32. cloudy: Madrid 34, 44, cloudy; Brussels 35, 44, cloudy; Moscow 8, 12, fog; Stockholm 27, 41, overcast; New York 17, 28, cloudy; San Francisco 40, 50, clear: Tokyo 33, 52, clear: Montreal 16, 22, clear: Buenos Aires 65, 88, fine: Johannesburg 65, 85, fine; Singapore 73, 82, cloudy; Sydney 66, 72, cloudy. Airport Busier Thousands more passengers passed through Auckland Air-. port last year than in 1967. According to figures supplied by the airport division of the Auckland Regional Authority, the number of passengers travelling on domestic flights rose by 22,446 to 507,001. Figures for international flights showed an increase of only 2640 passengers, giving a 1968 total of 283.248, with 141,453 arriving, and 141,795 departing.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31881, 8 January 1969, Page 10
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364General News Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31881, 8 January 1969, Page 10
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