General News

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 8

General News

Shipment of Oysters “OysterSy-Direct from Bluff” was a notice outside a cafe in Manchester street last evening. A thousand dozen oysters arrived on the south express last evening for this cafe. The proprietor said that he had “a good friend” in the south. He expects a further consignment today. The local distributors of oysters, however, received advice from Bluff yesterday that there would definitely be •no oysters arriving in Christchurch this week. A fishmonger, who made private arrangements seven weeks ago when the oyster season should have opened, expects to have 500 dozen oysters on sale after 7.30 p.m. today. £1,000,000 a Week Income Sir Abdulla al Salim al Subah, the ruler of Kuwait, the Persian Gulf oil Kingdom, who has a reported personal weekly income of about £1,000,000, has appointed a board to invest part of his fortune, which is derived from oil royalties. The first board members are Lord Piercy, a director of the Bank of England, Lord Kennet, a director of a British bank in the Middle East, Mr H. T. Kemp, his personal representative in London, and Mr C. P. Whishaw, his solicitor.— London, April 9. N.Z. Goat for Australia New Zealand goat farmers have imported goats from Australia in recent years, but this week a New Zealandbred goat will be exported to Australia. Kia Ora Javelin, the first goat sold for export to Australia, left Lyttelton yesterday by the Waipori for Sydney. He has been sold to a breeder in New South Wales. Kia Ora Javelin was bred on the Mount Pleasant farm of Mr A. D. Clark, his sire being an English buck of the Saanen breea imported in 1952. Rugby and Soccer “I do not object to the game, or the funny football that is used, but I do object when it is called football,” said Tommy Trinder, the English comedian, referring to Rugby football in an address to the Canterbury Football Association last evening. “I have never seen a man with one arm playing Rugby, but I have seen plenty of men with one arm playing first-class soccer,” he said. Air Passengers for Melbourne Forty-six passengers are booked to fly from Christchurch to Melbourne today by the Tasman Empire Airways Skymaster. The aircraft is expected to bring 41 passengers and two infants from Melbourne this morning. Freight for the return flight includes wool samples, an old oil painting, and diamond drills. Soil Conservation Standards The Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Committee has decided to adopt the United States Soil Conservation standards and to advocate their use in the Dominion. This advice was contained in a letter received at the monthly meeting of the South Canterbury Catchment Board today from the chairman of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council (Mr W. L. Newnham). The letter said that the decision had been made after trial conservation surveys in the Dominion, investigation of American survey methods, and discussions with visiting authorities. The council desired all catchment boards to adopt the American standards when making conservation surveys.—(F.O.O.R.) N.Z. Builders* Conference

Ninety-one delegates, representing 21 building organisations throughout New Zealand, will arrive in Wellington tomorrow to attend next week’s annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Builders’ and Contractors’ Industrial Association of Employers and the New Zealand Master Builders’ Federation. The conference will start on Monday and continue till Friday. Remits to be discussed cover such subjects as stability within the building industry, the filling of Public Service vacancies, the prestige of the building industry, building control, materials, and timber production. Building costs are expected to be debated at length.— (P.A.) Properties Auctioned Of three house properties offered at auction in Christchurch yesterday two were sold and one was passed in. A bungalow on a section of about 40 perches at 33 Thackeray street was passed in at j£l7oo and a house at 24 Brittan terrace, Lyttelton, on 45j perches of land was sold for £2700. Competition for this property was keen. The third property to be auctioned was a bungalow on 29.1 perches of land at 28 Sherborne street. It was sold for £2400. Co-education Views Support for the views expressed in a leading article in ‘‘The Press” yesterday on co-education, was given by the chief inspector for post-primary schools in the South Island (Mr J. L. Cameron) in Ashburton last evening. “I believe, and the department believes, that co-education gives the best education; not necessarily the most streamlined examination result, but the most human result,” he said. Complaints Against Milkmen

Apartment-dwellers in Auckland who have to pay cash for their milk are complaining that they forfeit their change when they are unable to leave the exact payment in their milk bottles. The tenants of one suburban apartment house found they were paying a shilling and more for a quart of milk. When they taxed their milkman about leaving change, they were told they were required to put out the exact amount of money. The secretary of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Board (Mr N. R. Chapman) said that the board received a number of similar complaints from people living in rooms. They were investigated immediately. Sometimes the board found the vendor was at fault, but sometimes he was not. There had been cases of money being stolen from milk bottles during the night. If the vendor failed to give change, Mr Chapman said, he was immediately interviewed by the board and threatened with the appropriate penalty. Expresses to Stop at Temuka The Temuka Borough Council received advice on Wednesday from the Minister of Railways (Mr W. S. Goosman) that the need for the discontinuance of the Wednesday express services had passed and that arrangements had been made for the 9 a.m. Christchurch-Dunedin and the 8.45 £.m. Dunedin-Christchurch express trains to make stops at both Temuka and Ora'ri. The Minister’s letter said that the running of the 9 a.m. Christchurch-Dune-din and 8.45 a.m. Dunedin-Christ-church express trains was suspended on Wednesdays from February 4 so that adequate staff would be available for handling the heavy goods and livestock traffic anticipated during the current season. Wednesday was selected as the day on which the curtailment would be made because traffic was lightest on that day. Arrangements had been made for the Wednesday express trains stopping at Orari and Temuka to be restored from and including April 8.—(F.0.0.R.)

Big Building for Auckland Nine storeys high, Queen street’s first large office to be built since the war will begin to take shape this year opposite the Town Hall. The Mutual Life and Citizens’ Assurance Company, Ltd., will replace the old Central Building at the corner of Queen and Airedale streets with a modern reinforced ■ concrete structure at an estimated cost of £400,000. Mr J. F. Grace, the company’s district manager, said that demolition of the old building would begin on May 15, when test bores would be taken to gauge stresses. When the architects had completed their specifications, tenders would be called. Demolition would be pushed through so the actual construction of the new block could begin before the end of this year. The building will be similar in design to the M.L.C. building in Wellington with its distinctive tower. Infants’ Booklet

A reading activity booklet leading up to use of the “Janet and John” readers in infant classes has been prepared by the Christchurch Infant Mistresses’ Circle with the co-operation of inspectors of the Canterbury Education Board. Although the idea was not mooted till last October the publication was made in January in time to supply all new entrants in Canterbury at the beginning of the school year. Teachers attending the holiday refresher course at Sumner took samples to many other parts of New Zealand and it is hoped that the scheme will be extended.