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...soon wishes he hadn't. Last week Tom Shand, New Zealand's new Minister of Civil Aviation, decided to give the bureaucrats a taste of their own medicine. He invited nine of the nation's top civil servants to join him on an airborne "picnic" to Auckland. It was a bumpy flight (the pilot had been encouraged to seek out the roughest patches of air), and before it was over, the passengers were handed landing forms to fill out-forms identical with those issued to visitors. When the queasy bureaucrats finished struggling with their own gobbledygook...
...Corner. In Auckland, New Zealand, the City Council altered its road boundaries when the Town Planning Staff pointed out that one officially proclaimed road ran into a zoo, through the lion's cage, the hyena's cage, the baboon's cage...
Born. To Sir Edmund Hillary, 35, New Zealand beekeeper knighted for his successful 1953 conquest (with Tenzing, the Sherpa guide) of Mt. Everest, and Lady Louise Hillary, 24: their first child, a son; in Auckland, New Zealand. Name: Edmund. Weight...
Happy Ending. In Auckland, N.Z., after a 48-year postal romance between New Zealander John Edgecumbe and Philadelphian Prudence Coker finally led to marriage, Mrs. Edgecumbe told reporters, "We hope all the fuss is over and we'll be able to settle down...
Racing to the rescue and rendered careless by the fate that had overtaken their friend, his two comrades ran straight into the arms of the law. In the monkey house at Auckland, freedom was once again only a dream and a memory...