General News

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27132, 31 August 1953, Page 8

General News

Man Apprehended A man was apprehended by the police in a ventilator recess at the Gloucester street end of “The Press” lane about 7 p.m. on Saturday. The man had used a ladder to climb up into the recess. A window at the end of the recess opens into the kitchen of the Singing Kettle at 150 Gloucester street. T’hese premises had been entered, but nothing had been removed. Next door to the Singing Kettle is a jeweller’s shop. Police in a patrol car in Gloucester street were notified of a man being in the locality in suspicious circumstances, and at the same time a woman was telephoning the police. Many passersby gathered as the police removed the man from the recess. He will appear in the Magistrate’s Court today. Air Race Covers A team of volunteers worked all day on Saturday at the offices of the Canterbury International Air Race Council attaching Is 6d Coronation stamps to 32,850 official souvenir covers which will be carried from Christchurch to London as mail and back as freight by the Royal New Zealand Air Force Handley Page Hastings aircraft in the transport handicap section of the air race. The six volunteer workers began at 9 a.m.-and worked through till 5.30 p.m. In addition another 6000 covers were stamped privately on Friday night and during the week-end. Highbank Repairs Engineers working on the repairs to the 25,000 kilowatt generator at the Highbank power station were still “flat out” last evening after starting work on Friday, and the station would be brought back into service by 6 a.m. on Monday, said the District Electrical Engineer to the State Hydro-electric Department (Mr W. H. Gregory), in a telephone conversation from Highbank last evening. He expected them to test the generator about midnight. A valve was damaged a fortnight ago. and the major task of making repairs was begun on Friday. Progress since then had been excellent. Mr Gregory said. A number of complications had hampered the work, but the 15 men working on the generator were doing their utmost to have it back at work by the required time. “We have 10 hours to go and we are just getting it back now,” said Mr Gregory. “We will have it back in the system by 6 o’clock on Monday morning.” By Jet Airliner On their way home from meetings of Universities of the British Commonwealth in England the Rector of Canterbury University College, Dr. H. R. Hulme. and Mrs Hulme, travelled from Rome to Colombo by Comet jet airliner. Dr. Hulme said on Saturday that the only drawback about the Comet was that it consumed so much fuel that it had *to land fairly frequently. They were not in the air for more than three hours at a time, which meant that the traveller could not go to bed or to sleep easily. Dr. Hulme said he thought that this defect would be remedied by new jet aircraft with longer range. They should be ideal for long distance travel. The Comet was “a bit noisy” at the take-off, he said, but otherwise the noise and vibration seemed to be considerably less than in ordinary aircraft. At 35,000 feet he said they seemed to be above rfiost of the bad weather, and there were some very fine views of the country below. Future of Hydro Townships

The New Zealand Homeservicemen’s Association decided at its annual conference in Wellington to ask the Government for details of plans for the future of the construction townships at Roxburgh and Mangakino. These houses could well be used as homes for disabled servicemen or holiday camps for children, said Mr A. V. Rowe (Hamilton). “It might be worth while to find out just what the department’s plans are for them,” said Mr R. B. Levien.—(P.A.) Battle of Britain Ceremonies To commemorate the Battle of Britain, wreath-laying • ceremonies and church services will be held in many B laces throughout New Zealand on eptember 20. Services will be held at Auckland. Hamilton. New Plymouth, Taihape. Hawera Wanganui, Feilding, Palmerston North, Pahiatua Gisborne, Paraparaumu. Wellington. Blenheim, Nelson, Westport Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill.— (P.A.) Memorial to N.Z. Airmen Lord Freyberg will unveil a stained glass window commemorating New Zealand airmen in the Airmen’s Chapel of Lincoln Cathedral on September 20. The window is now nearing completion in a studio in York. Il will commemorate the New Zealand airmen who were stationed in Lincolnshire and died during the last war.— London, August 30.