GENERAL NEWS

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32209, 30 January 1970, Page 12

GENERAL NEWS

Flight Recalled Fifty years ago a Wanganui doctor took his two sons on a flight over Auckland in a Boeing seaplane of the New Zealand Flying School. Yesterday afternoon the sons, now the Governor-General (Sir Arthur Porritt) and his brother, Mr C. Porritt, commemorated the flight with an hour-long sight-seeing flight over the Hauraki Gulf. But yesterday’s flight was not made from the site of the school run by the Walsh Brothers at Kohimarama. It was made from the Auckland waterfront in a Widgeon amphibian of Mount Cook Airlines.—(P.A.). Gift To Koreans Most of the $lOOO sent recently to the St Francis Orphanage in Pusan, Korea, by C.0.R.5.0. in New Zealand will be used to improve pig breeding at the orphanage, in a letter sent this month to I the director of C.0.R.5.0. I (the Rev. H. C. Dixon), the ; superintendent of the orphanage (Jo Kwang Hyon) said that some of the money had been used for fuel and some for the admission fee for five children who would advance to middle school this year. The rest would be used to enlarge the pig houses, which had been partly destroyed. The fuel had been needed to' heat feed for the pigs during the recent cold winter.

Thefts By Guests Tins of toheroas and vegetables were stolen from display stands by some of the 260 invited guests at the New Zealand Meat Board’s preview of Expo 70 on Wednesday evening. All four tins of toheroas on display, which were flown from Auckland for the occasion, and an unknown number of tins of vegetables were stolen. The vegetables are readily available fresh in Christchurch produce markets at present. One of the board’s waitresses at the function spoke to a guest she had seen- take a tin of food from a stand, but he put the tin in his pocket and moved away. World Weather The work’s weather on Wednesday was: Rome, variable, 34 degrees minimum, 54 degrees maximum: Paris, overcast, 37, 44; London, fog, 36, 39; Berlin, overcast, 28, 30; Amsterdam, fog, 35, 44; Brussels, fog. 35. 44: Madrid, cloudy, 39, 48: Moscow, overcast. 5, 11: Stockholm, cloudy, 21, 28; New York, cloudy, 26, 34; San Francisco, clear, 52, 58; Los Angeles, cloudy, 53, 61; Chicago, cloudy, 31, 35; Miami, cloudy, 64, 76; Tokyo, clear, 29, 47; Hong Kong, overcast, 61, 63; Buenos Aires, clear, 62, 70; Montreal, cloudy, 7 17; Honolulu, cloudy, 7, 17; Singapore, showery, 74, 89: Sydney, drizzle, 65, 68; Melbourne, fine, 57, 78.