New Record Set

Chronicle (Levin), 9 March 1946, Page 4

New Record Set

-'Setting a hew record in elapsec .ime from England' to New Zealana .he first of two Lancastrians undsr .aking training flights landed a )hakea at 3.35 o'clock this morninL £he former record of 68 hours 3 ains. was iowered ro 62 hours , lins. Yaried Plane Types At the momo-nt the Bfitisi Ovefseds Airways Corporation wa operating over 260 diiTerent tyne I aircraft, Lord Knollys, ciiaii rnan of the corporation, stated lr ,ii interview at Auckland. This w iie outcoinfe of the , war, but th niie was apprbaching when th ypes oi aircraft u-ed by the cor joration throughout the- worlc vould be standari.-.ed. Oamage by Rdbbits Ooime-ii uiiv aamage caused t iastiires by rabbits, was ex'preSsec :>y the Rangitikei Catchment Boarin a letter befors the Rangitikc. Goiihty Cotincil at its meeting in vlarton yesterday". The board askec" for details of the extent of .th .•ounty area covered by rabbiv bd&rdS. "The county cnginesr i supplying a map which will defihr he various rabbit districts," said the County clerk (Mr. F. L. Nicol) Fai'ftis fdr Rehabilitation At the end of January a totai of154,943 aeres had been acquired" under the authority of the Sinai Fariiis Act of the cOmpulsory section of the Servicemen's Settlemerii and Land Saies Act for the settl:. ment of ex-servicemen on the land stat'es the Rehabilitation -Board. Ihe prdpertifes taken compulsbrily under the latter Act now, number 157 made up of 114 of suitable Siz? tof the Board's reqdirements end 43 takeh fbf sub-division. The de^elapment of the latter has resulted in he pfovi 'ioh of 111 single unit .'arms. Thus activities under tli£ authority cf the oompulsofy cectiori jf the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Salds Act alorie,. lias provided 225 faffrife tdtalling 4*7,367 dcfes fdr ballOt among formef riiembers of fclig fdrdes. , •