GENERAL NEWS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31987, 14 May 1969, Page 16

GENERAL NEWS

Safety Belts

Lap-and-shoulder safety belts will be fitted to each of the Central Canterbury Electric Power Board’s 70 trucks and cars. The board yesterday accepted a quotation of $4.72 for the supply and installation of each belt. Tokelauan Migrants Describing the Government’s scheme to help the people of the Tokelau Islands to emigrate to New Zealand, the Minister of Island Territories (Mr Hanan) yesterday told the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration in Christchurch that 148 persons had been resettled in a pilot scheme and modern houses were being built at Taupo and Rotorua for more groups of about 100 a year. So far the scheme had been remarkably successful, he said. Use Of Computers One of the Christchurch computer bureaux was approaching other supply authorities to see if a “package deal” could be worked out, and another bureau was doing a feasibility study at no charge for the board, said the secretary (Mr I. S. Smith) at a meeting of the Central Canterbury Electric Power Board yesterday, when it was suggested that a computer service should be used to record and control stores and costing-

Golden Kiwi

Golden Kiwi No. 378 will be drawn tomorrow.—(P.A.)

Polynesian Institute

The best knowledge must be brought to bear on the subject if progress was to be made, said the Minister of Island Territories (Mr Hanan) when Professor J. L. Roberts, of the School of Public Administration at Victoria University of Wellington, asked Mr Hanan at the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration yesterday for his views on the establishment of a Polynesian institute where knowledgeable persons could study the economic and social development of Polynesian islands. “We don’t want to destroy the old ways or to Europeanise the Polynesian and the Maori,” Mr Hanan said. “We just want to help them to become modern men.” Thai Visitors Twenty-one members of the Thai National Defence College will visit New Zealand next week. The party, led by Major-General Chantrakupt Sirisuth, the deputy superintendent of the college, will arrive in Wellington next Tuesday and will stay three days. The Thais will study New Zealand’s defence structure, industry and agriculture.—(P.A.) World Weather The world’s weather on Monday, according to cable reports, was:—Rome 48 degrees minimum, 77 degrees maximum, sunny; Paris 56, 81, sunny; London 57, 70, sunny; Berlin 55, 72, sunny; Amsterdam 52, 76, sunny; Brussels 48, 68, sunny; Madrid 60, 82, partly cloudy; Moscow 57, 77, overcast; Stockholm 46, 68, rainy; New York 53, 66, clear; San Francisco 50, 56, cloudy; Los Angeles 60, 77, cloudy: Hong Kong 81, 87, cloudy: Montreal 39, 47, rain; Johannesburg 58, 70, fine; Singapore 76, 80, cloudy.