General News

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32219, 11 February 1970, Page 12

General News

Compensation Paid

Th? Post Office had received and dealt with 200 claims on the loss of mail in a North Island railway waggon fire last October, the Chief Postmaster in Christchurch (Mr M. T. Reedy), said yesterday. Compensation had been paid on all claims for parcel and packet mail for both New Zealand and overseas destinations. Return To U.S. Mr Max Conrad is expected to leave for the United States aboard a Starlifter jet transport tomorrow or during the week-end. As a retired United States Air Force colonel. Mr Conrad is eligible for a flight on a military plane if space is available. It was not known yesterday what gear retrieved from his crashed aircraft now lying in snow near the AmundesenScott South Pole' Station he will take back ■with him. Once he is home; !Mr Conrad will have talks. I with his insurance company about the fate of his 565.000: aircraft and other related fin-' ancial matters. Small Earthquake ; A small earthquake which lasted about 20 seconds was felt in Christchurch at 10.34[ a.m. yesterday. It was felt in several high buildings and in isome houses. The earthquake I was so small that it was not on the Canterbury Museum’s seismograph or at the seismological observatory; in Wellington of the Depart-; unent of Scientific and Indus-; trial Research. Lowering Of Lake Twelve thousand yards of spoil will be removed from; a diversion. 7ft deep, to be cut at Lake Haupiri, in the Grey Valley This will lower; the lake level 2ft and improve the drainage of adjacent land The lake rose about 7ft when the Haupiri I River broke through in a summer flood in 1939. The] work will be done for the Westland Catchment Board, and will take the lake outlet through into the Haupiri River.—(F.O.O.R.) World Weather The world’s weather on Monday was: Rome, overcast, 36 degrees minimum, 57 degrees maximum; Paris, cloudy, 44, 52; London, sunny, 41, 50; Berlin, rain, 32, 36; Amsterdam, showers, 41, 46; Brussels, clear, 36, 46; Madrid, sunny, 40, 50: Moscow,! showers, 41, 50; Stockholm, overcast. 23, 25; New York, cloudy, 33, 50: San Francisco,; cloudy. 53. 69; Los Angeles.; cloudy. 54, 83: Chicago, snow, 34. 37; Miami, clear, 61. 70;; Tokyo, cloudy, 33, 55: Hong Kong, overcast. 59, 66: Montreal. clear. 7, 36.