General News

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25427, 25 February 1948, Page 6

General News

Trophy for BowlingA trophy to be presented annually to the best Canterbury bowler in the Plunket Shield series has been given to the Canterbury Cricket Association by the family of the late Mr S. A. Orchard. The trophy is a ball mounted on three miniature stumps. The ball was used when Mr Orchard took the first hat-trick in Plunket Shield cricket, playing for Canterbury against Auckland in 1910. Rail Car Breaks Down When the engine broke down at Weedons last evening, the West Coast rail car had to be towed in to the Christchurch station by steam locomotive. It arrived an hour and 27 minutes late. Although it was at first intended to tranship passengers and bring them in by motor-truck, the locomotive arrived almost at the same time as the road transport and it was decided to bring the passengers on without transhipping them. Fijian Cricketers as Singers The Fijian cricket team which is touring New Zealand and which will play a two-day match at Timaru next week, has achieved a reputation for singing as well as for a high standard of cricket. Interest in the Fijians’ ability as entertainers caused the management committee df the South Canterbury Cricket Association to suggest, at a recent meeting, that the visiting team might be asked to provide a full programme of songs while it was in Timaru. A song from the Fijians would be appreciated at the afternoon tea cdjournment, it was suggested. The matter would be considered again, it was decided, after arrangements for the entertainment of the visitors had been made. All Blacks’ Tour The fact that South Africa was not entirely disappointed because the All Black Rugby tour was postponed from this yeay till next was mentioned yesterday by Mr G. A. Maddison, one of New Zealand’s delegates to the Imperial Rugby conference, who returned to Wellington by the Wahine. Mr Maddison said the president of the South African Rugby Board (Mr T. Pienaar) had told him the South Africans were glad the tour had been postponed for a year as they did not think they would have been ready for the All Blacks this year.—(P.A.) Higher Standard of Mathematics “A great and obvious advance” in the standard of mathematics in New Zealand University colleges is noted in a report by Professor H. G. Forder, professor of mathematics at the Auckland University College, received at a meeting of the college council. Professor Forder returned recently from a year’s sabbatical leave in the United Kingdom. “We are now nearer the standard in Australia and in the provincial universities in England and this progress will encourage further efforts.”

Youth Kills Native Game Such cases should be reported, although it was unusual, said Mr H. P. Lawry. S.M., in the Children’s Court at Christchurch when a boy aged 16 appeared on a charge of having killed native game during the close season. In adjourning the case sine die, conditional on the defendant’s paying the cost of the prosecution, the Magistrate said publicity might act as a warning to other youths.

Broadcasting and Gate Takings Members of the Victory Park Board considered that broadcasting a match detracted from the gate, said the chairman of the management committee of the Canterbury Cricket Association (Mr R. C. Saunders) at a meeting of the committee last evening’. Mr Saunders was commenting on a letter from the board in which the secretary (Mr K. N. McGillivray) said that the board could not agree that the fee received for broadcasting matches should be the sole property of the cricket association. Mr Saunders said that broadcasting might affect detrimentally the attendance at a football match, but he considered that it would probably have the opposite affect on the gate for cricket matches. Sensitivity to Penicillin The fear that penicillin will become useless as a remedy in a few years because the disease germs it now checks will all have developed resistance is somewhat dispelled by a discovery of Dr. A. Voureka, working in the Wright-Fleming Institute in St. Mary’s Hospital, London, according to a correspondent of the “New York Times.” Germs that have developed resistance to the mould remedy can be made sensitive to it again in a few minutes, Dr. Voureka reports. The work is still preliminary, and so far only seven out of twenty strains of germs tested have had their penicillin resistance reversed. New School for Waddington Contracts have been signed by the Canterbury Education Board for the building of a new school and teacher’s residence at Waddington, where it is intended to establish a consolidated school. It is hoped that the new buildings will be finished before the end of this year. There will be four main classrooms at the new school and a dental clinic. Defendant’s Complaint “Blenheim road is a disgrace to any civilised community,” said a defendant, who was charged with cycling on a footpath in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. Traffic inspectors were reluctant to charge people lor cycling on the footpaths in the street because of the state of the road, he said. When the street was graded bigger stones were pushed into the cycling tracks. It was provocation by the local authority, letting the road go from bad to worse. It was “nobody’s baby” as it was oif the boundary of the Riccarton Borough and Waimairi County and the Main Highways Board was using it as a testing road. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., said he knew the road, but he had to enforce the regulations. Dehydrated Potatoes A suggestion that New Zealand’s surplus potatoes should be dehydrated and sent to England has been made by Mr A. E. Mansford, secretary-organ-iser, at a meeting of the Manawatu Aid for Britain committee at Palmerston North. Mr Mansford said he had already forwarded the suggestion to the chairman of the national council (Mr F. P. Walsh). Industrial Harmony in U.S.A. “Throughout American industry there is a firm realisation that overall efficiency m any form of business can be obtained only by the merging of sound management with harmonious labour relations,” said Mr A. H. inomas. personnel manager of the Vacuum Oil Company, Ltd., who has arrived in Wellington. “This has resulted in the adoption of many progressive personnel policies for the improvement of industry output, and the betterment of employees’ working and social conditions” he said. “Although these ‘employment charters’ vary according to the type of industry, all have a common basis in that they stress the employee’s personal security in the form of benefit plans, provide training for those wanting to advance and e^ s 1 u F e P rom otion according to both ability and seniority.” Ocean Dive Plan Professor Piccard will leave about next August for the Gulf of Guinea, where he hopes to dive to an ocean depth of two and a half to three and a half miles in his bathyscaphe, a sphere some 6ft in diameter, says the London correspondent of “The Press ’’ writing on February 16. Work on his transport ship the Scaldis, could not be finished before the bad weather began in the Gulf of Guinea. Pacific Survey Flights

The possibility entertained last year that Pacific route survey flights between Canada and New Zealand might be undertaken early this year by Trans-Canada Airlines, and that the Minister for Reconstruction and Supply (Mr C. D. Howe) might take part in the inaugural flight has not been realised because of a doubt as to the delivery dates of aircraft and heavy traffic on the existing routes, the High Commissioner for Canada (Mr A. Rive) said yesterday. It was not yet possible to say when Mr Howe would visit New Zealand, or when the inauguration flights would take place. “The opening of the Pacific service by Trans-Canada Airlines depends on the delivery of the new North Star 42’5.” Mr Rive said. “The North Star M2 aircraft, a new pressurised version of the North Star Ml, which Trans-Can-ada Airlines has used on the transAtlantic service with outstanding success during the last several months, is expected to be the aircraft used on any new international routes flown by Trans-Canada Airlines.”—(P.A.)