General News

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26263, 7 November 1950, Page 6

General News

M.P.’s See Kiwis Three of tne visiting delegates to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference had decided views- on Sundav abo”t one of the first things they wished to see in New Zealand. They were Lord Wilmot. Sir Howard d’Egville. and Mr R. St. L. P. Deraniyagala. of Ceylon, and soon after th-ir arrival at Auckland they went to the ?.uck'and Zoo to see a kiwi. For the three delegates that took precedence over a sight-seeing tour arranged by the Department of Internal Affairs. Property Auction Although more than 50 persons were present at an auction sale of five buiiding’Sections and a property comprising a six-roomed house and a gla„s house, all on Cashmere Hills, little interest was taken in the sale, snd' .he nroperty and two of the sections were .nassed in. The sections and. the nrvperty are situated in Ashgrove terrace. Bidding .or the first .section offered, containing 26 perches, started at £40,9 and went up to £5OO in £56 blds, and in £2s* to £OOO, at which price it v>a.--knocked down. The thiw' section offered was sold* at £BOO. Bidding opened at £5OO and it was sold after two £5O bids. The last section, aft-r one bid o: £5O and one of £25 was sold at £575. The two other sections, of 3 roods 21.4 perches, and 37 6-10lhs perches, were passed in at £7OO and £550 respectively. Bidding for the I property, which opened at £2O.D, reached £2200 in two quick £lOO bids, and at this sum it was passed in. The property is on 3 roods 27 perches. - ’ Health Stamp Sales Health stamp sales for October totalled £nq,63o—£Booo more than for the same period last year and £l2OO more than for the whole period stamps were on sale last year, according to an announcement yesterday by the Wellington General Post Office. Stocks of stamps are still held, particularly IJd stamps.—(P.A.) “A Very Great People” The British people were indeed a very great people. That was a strange statement for an Englishman to make, but it was time it was said, said Mr Ernest Brown, English statesman and church leader, in a luncheon address i to the Chamber of Commerce yester- 1 day. "I think we have suffered a great , deal because of our understatement," he said. The English people suffered from meiosis. “There is not a single Government I know in the free world to-day that is not concerned about one thing—the. rising cost of living." Mr Erown said.* The idea that there was seme unlimited fund into which everyone could dip was a fallacy, which, he thought, could . bring down democracies. Lottery On Totalisator Figures When a man pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court yesterday to being in possession of tickets designed to be used in connexion with an illegal lottery he was fined £l5. Sub-Inspector J. J. Kearns said that the system was that the ticket with-the last four figures of the total sum going througn the totalisator at a race meeting was the winner. "So it is a straight out gamble.” said Mr Rex C. Abernethv. S.M. It was the first case of the kind to come before him. said the Magistrate. Rayon in Carpets The increasing use of .rayon and other synthetic fibres in carpet manufacture and the hope of a resultant lower and more stable price were referred to in an interview at Auckland by Mr R. Hayes, a vice-president of the Bigelow-Sanfnrd Carpet Company. New York,- the biggest carpet manufacturers in the United States. Mr Hayes is making a world trio to look into the production and marketing of wool suitable for carpet-making. Present peaks in wool prices had stimu-1 research into the development of a man-made fibre as a complement to wool, not as a substitute for it, Mr Hayes said. The use of synthetic fibres was inevitable, liecause of the world increase of population and because of the decrease in the number of sheep growing coarse carpet wool. Farmers were growing fine wool to get higher prices.—(P.A.) Favourite Opera "It is a very important opera tot only from the musical point of view, but also to a certain extent from the political point of view.’ said Mr Justus Bonn, the visiting Dutch tenor giving his reasons vesterday for fils choice of Beethoven s “Fidelio" as his favourite opera. ’’Like Beethov- ■ ■ Ninth Symphony it paints a nicture of the struggle for freedom of mind,” he said. Mr Bonn, who is the leading tenor in the Netherlands State Opera, is on a world concert tour. He will (Open his New Zealand programme with the National Orchestra at the Civic Theatre thW evening. - Candidates for Duntroon Nominations have closed for the 1951 entry for cadetships to the Royal Military College Duntroon. Eight nominations have been received in Southern Military District, five of them Torn Area’* 10. Christchurch. The candidates will be medically boarded soon and will go to the Army School at Trentham for final selection in December or January. The successful ca.ndidates will sail for Duntroon earlv next year. BeHena to Visit Lyttelton H.M.N.Z.S. Bellona is due at Lyttelton at 9 a’.m. on Friday on a courtesy visit. The cruiser will embark five officers and 20 ratings from the Christ, church Division of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve on Monday and will sail , on Tuesday for the -southern sounds, where the reservists will have a fortnight's sea training. The Bellona will be open to the public on Sunday afternoon. • Notifiable Diseases One death from pulmonary tuberculosis in the Christchurch health district was reported to the Department of Health last week. Notifiable diseases reported were:—enteric fever one case: tuberculosis, eight; puerperal, sepsis, one. From the Greymouth district two cases of tuberculosis and cne of cerebro-spinal meningitis were reported. <