General News

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31986, 13 May 1969, Page 16

General News

Freight Delay

i The Railways Department in Auckland is not accepting any goods for the South Is- . land because an accumulation of freight in Wellington on Thursday and Friday, when a storm closed the harbour, is still being cleared by the rail ferries. A railways spokesman said that an average of 400 tons of goods went south from the Auckland district each day. The restriction would probably be lifted today or Wednesday.—(P.A.) Access Track Skiers will have an easy and safe access to the Ball Glacier this season after a track has been blasted out of the 150 ft rock face leading down to the glacier. Between 3ft and sft in width and fitted with safety rails and netting, the track will be a joint venture financed by Alpine Instruction, Ltd, the Tourist Hotel Corporation and the Mount Cook National Park Board. The board’s chairman (Mr N. S: Coad) said yesterday that particular emphasis was being placed on safety. Plane Delayed The discovery of a crack in the by-pass fairing of a National Airways Corporation Boeing 737 engine delayed the aircraft for three hours in Christchurch yesterday. The Boeing's passengers bound for Wellington and Auckland, were taken in a Viscount, which left an hour and 20 minutes after the Boeing was to have left. N.A.C. engineers changed the Boeing engine and the plane left for Auckland at 1.12 p.m. A second Viscount was two hours and 50 minutes late in leaving for Wellington. New Wheat Only 30 bushels of the new variety of wheat. 1020.01 was available at the moment, and it could '.ot possibly be released before 1970, the director of the Wheat Research Institute (Mr R. W. Cawley) said yesterday. “I am concerned that readers might gather from remarks by the chairman of the agriculture section of North Canterbury Federated Farmers (Mr A. L. Mulholland) that the Wheat Research Committee has in any way delayed the release of the new variety,” he said. “This wheat has done well in trials, and multiplication has been carried out in anticipation of its release by the committee.” [After Mr Mulholland’s remarks at the section’s annua] conference on Friday, a member of the Wheat Board (Mr G. A. Nutt) said that the principal reason for delaying release of the new wheat was its limited supply.] Gift To Ambulance A cheque for $4BO was handed to the Lyttelton subcentre of the St John Ambulance Association by the Masonic Charitable Trust of Canterbury on Saturday afternoon. The money will be used to purchase radio equipment for two ambulances at the port. The presentation was made by Worshipful Brother F. H. Beaumont, master of the Lodge of Unanimity No. 3, and was received by Mr W. S. Treninnick, president of the Lyttelton sub-centre of the ambulance. The radio equipment is being installed by the Port Supermarket, Ltd. World Weather The world’s weather on Sunday, according to cable reports' was:—Rome, 46deg. (minimum), 72deg. (maximum), sunny; Paris, 52, 65, clear; London, 54, 64, clear; Berlin, 54, 61 (overcast): Amsterdam, 54, 68, cloudy: Brussels, 44, 59, overcast; Madrid, 53, 75, sunny; Moscow, 55, 71, clear; Stockholm, 50, 70, overcast; New York, 51, 67, cloudy; San Francisco, 51, 55, cloudy; Los Angeles, 63, 82, cloudy; Tokyo, 69, 71, cloudy: Hong Kong, 77, 88, fine; Johannesburg, 51, 70, fine.