General News

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 8

General News

Air £orce Chief Goes Gliding The Chief of the Air Staff (Air Vice-Marshal D. V. Carnegie) spent a few minutes in silent flight as a guest of the Auckland Gliding Club at Ardmore yesterday. He arrived from Ohakea by plane, and with little ado was soon aloft in a dual glider. One of the country’s best glider pilots, Mr C. A. Hookings, of St Helier’s Bay, flew the glider from the rear seat Brigadier G. H. Clifton, who arrived on the scene to take Air Vice-Marshal Carnegie to Papakura Camp, then decided to go up himself. —(P.A.) Trade in Islands Trade is booming in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, according to Mr S. F. Lynch, the Australian Trade Commissioner in Wellington, who returned to Auckland yesterday from a two months’ tour of the islands on a survey of trade conditions in this part of the Pacific. “Fiji is probably at the peak of its prosperity, with produce prices at the highest level," Mr Lynch said. “Australia has increased considerably her trade with this area.’’ He said he found similar- conditions in Samoa and Tonga.—(P.A.) Anniversary of Naval Disaster

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the naval disaster in the Mediterranean Sea, off Syria, when 350 lives were lost in the collision between H.M.S. Camperdown and H.M.S. Victoria. The Camperdown, under the command of Rear-Admiral Markham, rammed the Victoria, under the command of 'Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, who was drowned. Work on Burnt-out Building The stripping of the interior of the former Boys’ High School building at Canterbury University College is being done expeditiously with equipment reminiscent of coal mining. Shutes from the top windows carry charred remains down into a huge bin under which trucks drive for rapid loading. Fines for College "Pests” Part-time students who misbehave at Seddon Memorial Technical College in Auckland will be reprimanded and fined 5s or 10s according to the gravity of the offence. In a report approved by the board of managers, the principal (Mr H. M. Scott) said that only in rare cases did a student persist in interrupting a class to the extent that he was a nuisance, but recent reports from teachers had shown breaches of the college rules. Evening students had recently lit cigarettes in a corner of a workshop class. “With our large number of students, some of them attending by compulsion, there are always one or two who can be nests,” said Mr Scott. “We cannot empower them to pay a fine, but we can. off er a choice of a fine or suspension.” Health of Anzac Delegates

Dr. G. H. Thomson, of New Plymouth, suggested in Wellington last week that members of New Zealand Anzac delegations to Australia should first pass medical examinations and take out life insurance policies for the trip. He told the annual conference of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association that oftefi some delegates found their health could not match the pace set. by their Australian hosts. A medical examination first would remedy this. “Why a life insurance policy?’’ said Dr. Thomson. “On one trip a delegate just disappeared. We haven’t seen him since." —(P.A.)

Indian Industries The answer to India’s economic problems was more and more industries, said Mr B. L. Gupta, a representative of a Calcutta firm in an interview in Wellington. He has just concluded a tour of Far East and Indo-China. and is now returning to India. Indian manufactured goods, he said had found excellent markets in Burma and British East Africa, and to a more limited extent in Malaya and Indonesia. Mr Gupta’s firm, which manufactures sewing machines, 'has also exported its product to Germany, which re-exported the machines to South America. “That made us think of the possibilities in South America, and it has also proved a very satisfactorv market,” he said.—(P. A.) Schoo! Children and Royal Visit Correspondence School children from country areas would, he thought, be welcome to join school parties to observe the Royal visit to Canterbury, the chairman of the Canterbury Education Board (Mr S. J. Irwin) said on Friday in answer to a question by Irwin said the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr R. M. Mactarlane. M.P.) had told him on Thursday that a central committee would probably meet in about a week and that an educational committee could then be formed.

Police Criminal Registration Branch The fiftieth anniversary of the forming of the criminal registration branch of the New Zealand Police Force was marked by a social gathering in police headquarters, Wellington, last week. The Minister in charge of Police (Mr W. H. Fortune) was present, with Mr E. W. Dinnie, who was responsible tor organising the branch into a major section of the police force. Mr Dinnie is a son of a former Commissioner of Police, Mr W. Dinnie, who came to the Dominion from Scotland Yard.