General News

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32032, 5 July 1969, Page 12

General News

Ship Searched

Customs officers seized a liquid they believe may be a drug in a search of the freighter Straat Singapore at Lyttelton yesterday afternoon. The liquid will be tested by a Government analyst Between 121 b and 151 b of the liquid was found in sausage-like casings in a spare engine bearing in the engine-room of the Dutch vessel. Eight customs officers boarded the ship when she arrived from Suva at 5.50 a.m., and during the morning found dozens of watches and some transistor radios in other areas in the engineroom. Trespass Warnings The North Canterbury Catchment Board should make it plain by advertising from time to time that trespassers, including those who shot on board land, would be prosecuted, said Mr M. j. Conway, when the board yesterday decided to advertise its by-law prohibiting unauthorised entry on to board land. Investiture Film A film of the Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales will be shown on CHTV3 tomorrow. It will begin at 4.24 p.m. Short Story Mrs Christine Evans, of Christchurch, is the author of a story to be broadcast on the 8.8. C. world service “Short Story” programme on July 20. “Reunion” is the story of tiwo elderly women, rivals in their youth, who meet at the centenary celebrations of their old school. Mrs Evans, who has two sons and has lived in Christchurch for the last 20 years, was born in England, and spent much of her early life in India. Kiwi Caught The latest arrival at the Auckland Zoo is a kiwi from a farm near Dargaville. It has joined six other kiwis in the zoo after having been dragged out of a burrow by a farm dog on Sunday evening. A zoo spokesman said the zoo now had the quota of the birds allowed by the Internal Affairs Department The zoo was the custodian of the birds for the department The latest kiwi might be released in a suitable area, but this would be chosen very carefully.—(PA.) Chathams Cargo Two crayfishing boats are included in deck cargo on the supply vessel Holmdale, which will sail for the Chatham Islands this morning. They are the steel-bulled Kanriro and the wooden Destiny G. r both of which are registered in the Chatham Islands. They have been in Lyttelton for survey. Also aboard the Holmdale as deck cargo are two prefabricated buildings which will be used as living quarters. Two larger vessels are being fitted out at Lyttelton for crayfishing and may sail for the Chathams next week. They are the new 52ft fibreglass trawler Gemini, which is being completed by Stark Brothers, Ltd, and the 46ft former ketch Lady Christine. Radio Links Improved communications were approved by the North Canterbury Catchment Board yesterday when it authorised expenditure of $8360 to provide a very-high-frequency-radio network, telemetry equipment to report from the Rakaia Gorge and White Cliffs to the engineering headquarters at Kainga, ard a link with Arthur’s Pass to operate when the telephone lines are out A second stage in the scheme, to be approved later, will provide a service for the hill country north of the Waimakariri. Offer Of Loan The Canterbury Building Society, not the Canterbury Savings Bank, had offered a $lOO,OOO loan for the student village project, said the immediate past-president of the Canterbury University Students’ Association (Mr P. Nathan). He said he wanted to make this clear after publication of a report of a general meeting of the association which discussed the project World Weather The world’s weather on Thursday was:—Rome, 64 degrees minimum, 77 degrees maximum, variable; Paris, 62, 80, sunny; London, 61, 70, overcast; Berlin, 57, 72, overcast; Amsterdam, 59, 72, rainy; Brussels, 64, 75, sunny; Madrid, 63, 82, sunny; Moscow, 58, 76, rain; Stockholm, 55, 72, overcast; New York, 61, 82, cloudy; San Francisco, 52, 63, clear; Los Angeles, 64, 86, clear, Tokyo, 71, 82, fair; Singapore, 75, 85, unsettled; Hong Kong, 81, 84, cloudy; Johannesburg, 43, 68, fine; Montreal, 48, 72, cloudy.