Millen out of rally

Press, 16 June 1982, Page 48

Millen out of rally

NZPA staff correspondent Washington The expatriate New Zealander, Rod Millen, pulled out of a 370 km rally in northeastern Pennsylvania yesterday when his Mazda - RX7 developed axle and tyre trouble on the penultimate stage, when Millen was running second.

The race was won by John Buffum (U.S.) in an Audi Quattro, who has overtaken Millen to lead the points table in the 1982 Sports Car Club of America series. He has four wins to Millen’s two. with seven rallies to go. Millen is now on his wayback to New Zealand to continue his preparation for the Motogard rally.

General forecast: In Northland and Auckland, easterly winds with fine weather, apart from a few showers about the east coast; elsewhere, fine, cool weather, with cloudy areas and patches of morning drizzle in the eastern North Island, and in Southland and coastal Otago.

District forecasts: Canterbury: Light, variable winds, mainly fine and cool. Marlborough, Nelson, Buller, Westland: Fine, with moderate easterly winds. Outlook: Fine in most districts apart from morning cloud; showers from Auckland northwards.

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

Observations taken at the Meteorological Office. Christchurch Airport, yesterday. Barometer: 6 p.m. 11p.m. Millibars 1034.3 1033.8 Temperature: deg. Maximum (to 6 p.m.) . . 10 Rainfall: mm. 9 a.m. to 11 p.m Nil Yesterday 86 To date this month. ... 10 To date this year 136 To date last year 229 Average to date 308 Average for June. .... 61 Wettest June (1960)1 . . 168 Driest June (1979) 5 Sunshine: hrs mm Yesterday 8 hr 6 min To date this month. . . . 53 To dale this year 1021 To date last year 921 Average for June. . 113 Humidity: Per cent at. noon 66 Per cent at 6 p.m 87 Temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours to 9 a m. yesterday: Maximum 10 deg. minimum - 04deg. grass -07 deg. rainfall Nil SUN, MOON, AND TIDES Sun-Today: Rises, 7.59 a.m.;, sets. 5 p.m. Tomorrow: Rises. 8 a.m.; sets. 5 p.m. Moon—Today: Rises, 1.05 a.m ; sets. 142 p.m. Tomorrow. Rises. 2.13 am.; sets 208 p.m. High tide at Lyttelton—Today; 11.47 a.m. Tomorrow; 12.08 a.m. and 12.37 p.m. (Lake Forsyth, subtract 60min.; Akarba. subtract 45mm.; Port Levy, subtract 30min.; Ashburton and Rakaia, subtract 25 min.; Kaikoura, add 17min.; Kaiapoi and Sumner, add 30 min.). Phases of Moon - New moon: June 22. midnight. First quarter; June 28. 6 p.m.

Full moon: July 6; 8 p.m. Last quarter: July 14, 4 p.m. NOON WEATHER Auckland: 12deg., cloudy. S.. 8 knots. Wellington: 9deg., cloudy. S.E.. 5 knots. Christchurch: 7deg.. fine, calm. Dunedin: sdeg, cloudy, N.W., 5 knots. WORLD WEATHER Minimum and maximum temperatures in the main Australian cities yesterday were: Adelaide, 8, 16; Brisbane, 10 22: Cairns. 13. 25: Canberra, 6.16; Darwin. 22, 29; Hobart, 9. 14: Melbourne, 7. 14: Perth 10, 16 Sydney, 12, 18. Minimum and maximum temperatures in. the main cities of the world in the last 24 hours were: Amsterdam. 14. 18; Athens. 18. 26: Bahrain, 28. 34; Bangkok. 29 32: Barbados. 27. 34; Beirut. 17 26; Belgrade. 13. 20; Berlin. 9. 13; Brussels, 9. 19; Buenos Aires. 13. 17; Cairo, 25. 38; Caracas. 20. 23; Chicago. 9. 25; Copenhagen. 5, 13; Dublin, 9. 16; Frankfurt, 10, 18; Geneva. 10. 13; Havana, 23, 34Helsinki. 7.11; Hong Kong. 27,31: Honolulu, 25, 30; Jakarta. 23 33‘ Jerusalem, 16, 29; Johannesburg) nk 1 12125; s *‘ uala Lumpur, 23. 32; Lima, 18,. 21; Lisbon. 16. 23; London. 10, 16; Los Angeles 15. 21; Madrid. 13. 27; Manila. 24 34; Mexico City. 12. 26; Miami, 27, 32; Montevideo. 9. 22; Montreal. 10. 24; Moscow. 14. 17Nassau 19. 32; New Delhi, 30. 42 : New York. 11,' 13; Oslo. 7. 14; Paris, 12. 18; Peking. 17. 31; Rio de Janeiro. 16. 29; Rome. 19 26San Francisco. 10.17; Santiago, a' 13; Seoul, 17. 27: Singapore, 24, 30 Stockholm, 3. 11; Taipei, 22 30Tel Aviv, 19. 29; Tokyo. 17.' 2L Toronto. 15.20; Vancouver. 12 23 Vienna. 14. 18.