General News

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26262, 6 November 1950, Page 6

General News

Tropic Returning For Repairs The Shaw, Savill and Albion cargo steamship Tropic, which sailed from Lyttelton on Thursday for Liverpool, has [fut back for repairs and is due at Lyttelton at 8.30 a.m. to-day. No particulars were available from officials of the company yesterday. Cricket Team Ont for One When a schoolboy cricket team was all out for one in the Canterbury Cricket Association’s competitions on Saturday it beat the record low score in Wisden’s. The team was- the Christ’s College C team, which was beaten by the school's traditional rival. Boys’ High School, by an innings and 338 runs, in the fourth grade C competition. In reply to High School’s 352, College made one and 13. B. G. H. Rains, a High School fast bowler, took six wickets for one run and six for four, in the two innings. He took a hat trick in each innings, each hat trick comprising two batsmen bowled and one caught behind the wickets. All his other six wickets were batsmen bowled. The lowest total recorded in Wisden's (which covers only first-class fixtures) is 12. Unusual Cargo Unusual cargo carried by the flyingboat which arrived in Auckland from Sydney on Saturday was a bunch of citrus bud wood cuttings from Palestine. The cuttings, numbering several dosen, were consigned from Tel Aviv to Mr M. R. Cross, at Keri Keri, Bay of Islands—(P.A.) Forest and Bird Society Members of the New Zealand Forest and Bird Protection Society visited Scarborough Head and Taylor’s Mistaka on Saturday afternoon under the guidance of the president of the society, Professor L. W. McCaskill, to watch the sea-birds which are nesting on the cliffs in that area at present. Spotted and black shags, and several species of gulls and terns were observed. Members went afterwards to the homes of Messrs H. Bailey and W. Machin on Scarborough, where there are many native trees. Church Work Among Maoris Baptist work among the Maori people will be resumed after a lapse of more than 60 years. This was decided on Saturday morning by the annual assembly of the Baptist Union and Missionary Society of New Zealand after discussion of a report by a special committee, presented by the Rev. T. R. Page. The Doxoiogy was sung to commemorate the occasion. The immediate proposal, adopted on the recommendation of the council of the union, was the appointment of a Board of Maori Missions. The board will appoint a missioner to undertake work in Auckland City. The last organised Baptist work among Maoris was carried out in Ohinemutu in the 188 O's. but lapsed when the present missionary work in India began. The new venture has been planned in cooperation with the Maori section of the National Council of Churches. Cathedral Banner Dedicated

An elaborately worked banner, made by the Heartsease Needlework Society in England, and presented to the Christchurch Cathedral as a centennial gift by Mrs F. J. Reynolds to commemorate the arrival of the Canterbury Pilgrims in the First Four Ships, was dedicated by the Dean of Christchurch (the Very Rev. A. K. Warren) and used for the first time at the Cathedral’s festival services yesterday. The banner ig worked in the form of a red cross on a sky blue background. Superimposed in the centre are the arms of the diocese of Christchurch, and in the four quarters are heraldic representations of the First Four Ships signifying the origin of the diocese in the Canterbury settlement