General News

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26985, 10 March 1953, Page 8

General News

£10,009 Prize Won fin Lottery An Invercargill syndicate has won the first prize of £lO,OOO in an overseas lottery. Six of the main prizes, worth £15,000, were won by New Zealand ticket-holders. The winners of the £lO,OOO prize are Mr and Mrs J. W. P. Matheson, of Avon road Clifton, and Mrs Matheson’s father, Mr A. W. Smith.—(P.A.) Effect of 10-Minute Parking More often than not the answer has been “Yes” to an inquiry by the manager of a Worcester street business if motorists have been able to find a place for convenient parking since 10-minute parking was introduced. “This I feel you should know,” he has written to the traffic committee of the City Council, “for it was hopeless before the 10-minute parking came into effect.” Memorial Unveiled at Kaniere A memorial erected to those who lost their lives in the Kowhitirangi tragedy in October, 1941, was unveiled at the Kaniere Hall on Sunday afternoon by Mrs E. Best, widow of Constable E. M. Best. The memorial consisted of a stained glass window, the centre piece of which is a torch in gold with a red flame. The torch is surrounded by a laurel wreath. Below it is a stone inscribed as follows: “In memory of those who lost their lives in the Kowhitirangi tragedy df October, 1941: Sergeant W. Cooper, Constables E. M. Best, P. C. Tullock, F. W. Jordan, Messrs G. S. Ridley, G. G. T. Hutchison, R. J. Coulson.”— (F.0.0.R.) Left-Hand Traffic A public demonstration of the lefthand traffic rule is being arranged in Christchurch by the Left-Hand Rule Promotion Committee, and the Traffic Superintendent (Mr G. P. Kellar) has been authorised by the City Council’s traffic committee to co-operate where possible. The council last August approved in principle the introduction of the rule. Punishment of Crime New Zealanders seemed to show great common sense: when they received substantial punishment they did not come back, said Mr Justice Fair in the Court of Appeal yesterday. Punishment seldom hardened an offender, said his Honour. Substantial punishment was not merely a deterrent. It often had the strongest reformative effect by inducing a man to determine not to offend again and incur such punishment. “To get a man to resolve to reform himself is the most effective reformation one can get,” said his Honour. Earlier, when counsel had submitted the opinion of psychologists that an appellant was suffering from frustrations, his Honour said that observations by psychologists on the causes of crime were often so weakened by over-emphasis of one aspect that he could attach no weight to them. —(P.A.)

Crayfish Catches in South Westland There have been bumper crayfish catches in South Westland waters, beating all previous records already with some months of the present season remaining. Up till the middle of February the catches in South Westland waters, mainly in Jackson Bay and Big Bay. aggregated more than 10,000 cases, which outstrips Kaikoura’s best season of 9000 cases. This is easily the season’s best catch .to date for any part of the Dominion for any one season.—(F.O.O.R.) Plants for New. Caledonia Plants and seeds for planting during the centenary celebrations this year in New Caledonia will be forwarded by the reserves committee of the City Council. More than 200 soldiers are buried in the New Zealand services cemetery near Noumea, and some of the trees may be planted on the cemetery fence line. Children and Dangerous Drugs There should be a greater awareness by parents of the need to place pills and medicine that might be dangerous to young children well beyond their reach said the Minister of Social Welfare (Mrs G. H. Ross) at a meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board yesterday. The board received a letter of appreciation from a father in Rotorua who commended prompt action by the Rotorua Hospital staff in treating his son of two and a half years, who had swallowed 20 tablets intended for the relief of hay fever. Mrs C. R. O’Sullivan said that people should know better than to leave pills and medicine within reach of children. She said that the Plunket Society and women’s institutes were continually warning people of the danger. Mr E. G. Guy said that in the llotorua case the ehild had climbed on a chair and up three shelves to reach the pills. Everything possible should be done to make parents aware of the danger, said the chairman (Mr H. D. Caro).—(P.A.)