General News

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27471, 4 October 1954, Page 10

General News

Power Cuts Power cuts in the Municipal Electricity Department’s area from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. today will be in areas F, the central city zone, and A, St. Albans, Menvale, and part of Shirley. Fire Guts Carriages Two railway carriages were gutted, a stack of timber destroyed, a sawdust silo demolished and other damage done by a fire just after noon yesterday in Ward street, Dunedin. The fire was in premises occupied by lan Sharpe as a furniture factory, and owned by W. J. Haynes, Ltd. Damage was done to the roof of the concrete workshop. There was a 4,0-mile-an-hour gale when the fire was discovered. The brigade saved two other railway carriages.—

Telegraph Service The volume of public business handled by the telegraph service of the New Zealand Post Office in the year 1953-54 remained steady at 7,037,032 telegrams, in spite of the heavily increasing use of the telephone for longdistance communication.

Orphanages’ Appeal A widespread house-to-nouse canvass for children’s homes maintained by the Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches was carried out in Christchurch on Saturday morning by more than 1500 members of church youth organisations. Most of the proceeds will be counted today.

Mails to Isolated Areas The Post Office always keeps in close touch with the Royal New Zea- , land Air Force on the question of dispatching mails to isolated islands or : territories. Ordinary surface mails for , these places are somewhat erratic and mails can often be quickly and safely delivered there by “drop” flights made by R-N.Z.A.F. aircraft. Tonga, the Chathams and Raoul have recently received their mail in this way. A Choir’s Appreciation Mr Allan Morgan, of Lower Hutt, the man who drove the Vienna Boys’ all over . the North Island, and Mrs Morgan, will have good cause to remember the choir’s visit to New ZeaDurin § the tour news came to Mr Morgan that his wife had given birth to a son in the Hutt Hospital, ihe news leaked out to the choir. Returning to Wellington last Sunday Mr Morgan was ordered to stop the bus outside the hospital. The boys got out and trooped into the building. They gathered around Mrs Morgan’s bed and sang two Austrian folk songs and “Now is the Hour.” Radio Interference Tne Post Office receives many complaints about radio interference, but the cause of most trouble is faulty electrical gadgets in the home. Generally the interference comes when the most wanted programme is on—the electric jug with something faulty is on for a cup of tea just as the serial is to start. “Otahuna” Outing About 900 persons visited Sir R Heaton Rhodes’s property, “Otahuna,” on Saturday afternoon when it was opened to the public to raise funds for the Canterbury Rowing Club. Including the proceeds of stalls, the club profited by about £5O. The weather was very fine, and the grounds were at their best. Sir Heaton Rhodes is the oldest member of the club, his membership dating from about 1880, and he is a very generous supporter. The money raised on Saturday will go towards the cost of a new boat on order from England, which will cost the club about £3OO. Family Link with 'Church The Governor-General (Sir Willoughby Norrie) and Lady Norrie played a part in the dedication of a new east tying at the Bainbridge Memorial Methodist Church in Rotorua during the week-end. On Saturday, Lady ■ Norrie declared the £6OOO wing officially opened. At the 11 a.m. service yesterday, his Excellency read the lesson. A first cousin to Edwin Arm- < strong Bainbridge, who was killed in the Tarawera eruption in 1886, and after whom the church is named, Lady i Norrie walked through long grass to ' visit his grave at Ngongotaha on her first visit to Rotorua last year. The i dedication ceremony was conducted by 1 the Rev. H. L. Fiebig, of Christchurch, president of the New Zealand Methodist Conference. —(P.A.) |‘ Ring in Tin of Sardines ; A Norwegian woman who lost her gold wedding ring a year ago has heard that it had been found in Aus- ■ tralia, according to a Norwegian Em- ; bassy press bulletin issued in London ; today. The woman works in a canning factory at Askvoll, in western Norway, and the ring was discovered ; by an Australian upon opening a tin i of Norwegian sardines. The Austra- i lian wrote to the packing firm, and j the wedding ring is being returned to ’ Norway.—London. October £. (