120 Tons Whale Meat To Be Sent To Britain

Northern Advocate, 17 August 1949, Page 8

120 Tons Whale Meat To Be Sent To Britain

The largest shipment of whale meat to leave New Zealand for Britain this season will be taken from Wellington by the freighter Gloucester next week It consists of over 120 tons of whale steaks. The shipment will be the third serit to Britain this winter. More will follow next month and in October. So far, 320 tons have been sent. The meat has been taken from 132 whales caught by the Tory Channel hunters to date. This is a record number, with seven days to go before the season closes. It exceeds the previous besi catch by over 30. * * * * An attempt is to be made by the Auckland Electric-Power Board to convince the Housing Department and others of tfce value of placing electricpower meters in verandahs or porches of houses, so that meter-readers do not have to enter the premises to read them. The general manager of the board (Mr R. H. Baftley) reported yesterday that outdoor meters were the modern practice in other countries. It would cost no more to provide them in a new house. .« * * * A number of technical and scientific papers will be given during the conference of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry and the New Zealand branch of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, to be held at the Auckland University College from August 22 to 25. The conference will be opened by the Minister for Scientific and Industrial Research (Mr McCombsi and some New Zealand scientists are expected fo attend. # * * * Kindnesses shown to strangers in New Zealand by New Zealanders were described as “amazing, spontaneous and quite disinterested, ’ by Mr H. Salter Nichols, an English barrister, in an address to the Auckland Creditmen's Club yesterday. “New Zealanders are an example to the whole world in welcoming people,” he said. "In greeting absolute strangers, the English have a lot to learn from New Zealanders.”

The narrow and winding four miles of road between the Chateau Tongariro arid Salt Hut, on the slopes of Mt Ruapehu, will be made a one-way route when it is re-opened. The traffic inspector at Taumarunui (Mr J. N. BirseV said that a motorist wishing to travel up the road would have to ask at the garage at the Chateau whether he could, proceed. A telephone call would be made to a parking place half-way up the road to find out if any traffic was on it. If it was clear the car Would proceed to half-way. The same procedure would apply from half-way to Salt Hut and on the return journey. # * * * A fine of £75, in default two months' imprisonment, wai imposed on Ah Sing. 49, a Chinese laundryman, when he pleaded guilty ir. Auckland yesterday before Mr J. Molding, S.M., to a charge of permitting premises which he occupied in the basement of a building in Grey's Avenue to be used for smoking opium. * * * * Pleading not guilty to charges of intoxication in charge and negligently driving a motor-vehicle, thereby causing death, Daniel Joseph O'Sullivan, farmer, appeared before Messrs A. J. Clark and J. Hepburn. J.P.'s. at Te Aroha. He was committed to. the Supreme Court in Hamilton for trial. Three young science graduates will leave Wellington by the Wanganella on Thursday on their way to take up scholarships in forestry at Edinburgh University. They are Messrs G. M. O'Neill, a graduate of Otago University, P. J. McKelvey. Canterbury University College, and J. W. Levey, Victoria University College. The scholarships have been granted by the New Zealand Forest Service, which finds it necessary to provide for the training of sufficient professional staff to cary out intensive silvicultural management of state exotic forests and large-scale regeneration of native forest trees.