General News

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32117, 13 October 1969, Page 12

General News

Whitebait Run

Whitebait made a belated run in many Buller streams yesterday. The season had previously produced few results but the whitebait ran freely from early morning. Some fishermen along the Buller River got 1201 b, groups caught much more than that and very few failed to get enough whitebait to make the day the most successful of the year. At times the fish were running wide in immense shoals. There were some good catches also from the Orowaiti River, the best about 401 b, but the shoals were not so large in country streams. The price is still $1 per lb on the river bank.—(F.O.O.R.) World Weather The world’s weather on Saturday was:—Rome, 46deg minimum, 72deg maximum, dear; Paris, 51, 72, overcast; London, 52, 68, cloudy; Berlin, 46, 68, sunny; Amsterdam 48, 64, sunny; Brussels, 41, 66, misty; Madrid, 56, 67, sunny; Moscow, 39, 56, cloudy; Stockholm, 46, 60, sunny; New York, 55, 72, clear; San Francisco, 57, 67, clear; Los Angeles, 62, 75, clear; Chicago, 57, 62, rain; Miami, 73, 84, clear; Tokyo, 59, 71, cloudy: Hong I Kong, 73, 83, clear; Buenos I Aires, 47, 66, sunny; Montreal 43, 71, cloudy; Honolulu, 74, 89, clear; Singapore, 75, 89, cloudy: Johannesburg, 51, 72, fine; Melbourne 52,58, cloudy. House Sold A four-bedroom house on a ' section of 40 perches at 149 ; Linwood Avenue was sold for $4400 at auction on Friday. The Government valuation is $3700. The auctioneer was Mr R. A. C. Smith, of Smiths City Market, Ltd. A three-bedroom weatherboard bungalow at 6 ; Coles Place, St Albans, was passed in at $4900. The house and section of 20 perches has a Government valuation of $4250. The auctioneer was Mr D. O. Chapman, of Ford and Hadfield, Ltd. Westport Airport When members of the Buller County Council and the Westport Borough Council go to the Government this month to urge that the Kawatiri Airport at Westport be improved, they will have the support of the South Island Local Bodies’ Association. The conference yesterday was told that the councils were asking the Government to allow the airport to be developed to cater for Friendship aircraft when the DC3s were dispensed with next year.— (F.0.0.R.) Visit By 748 s Five Hawker Siddeley 748 prop-jets of the Royal Australian Air Force will visit the Royal New Zealand Air Force base at Wigram this week. They are due on Thursday and will stay for two days. The purpose ef the visit is to give members of No. 23 advanced navigation course at the R.AA.F. base at East Sale an opportunity to meet their New Zealand counterparts and compare training methods. The commanding officer of the detachment is Wing ' Commander K. M. Staib.