General News

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27750, 30 August 1955, Page 10

General News

Town Hall Project “We have just received a letter from one organisation owning property in the block stating that it is prepared to meet representatives of the town hall committee," said the Mayor (Mr R. M. Macfarlane, M.P.) last evening, when asked at the City Council meeting for a progress report on the town hall and civic centre project. It would be for the Town Clerk (Mr H. S. Feast) to see whether negotiations could be opened for acquisition of other property. the Mayor said. Sidesaddle Problem A traffic officer stopped a motorcyclist with a girl on the pillion at Glencairn, near Simonstown, because she was riding sidesaddle. She said that her skirt was too tight to ride astride. The officer would not let her continue riding sidesaddle, so she borrowed a penknife, slit her skirt at the side, climbed astride, and rode off.—Cape Town, August 28. Global Hitch-hike Three young men from different British Commonwealth countries have left Lahore for India, Japan, and Australia as the next stage in a round-the-world hitch-hike. For one of them, Allan Skepis, aged 25, an engineering student, of Sydney, the circuit will be completed. He left Sydney on January, 8, 1953, with only £5. picked up a pen friend, Neville Goodman, aged 20. a student of geography, of Wellington, New Zealand, and the two then went to Canada and were joined by another pen friend. Douglas Booth, aged 23. an engineering student, of Vancouver. They walk until somebody offers a lift and save up for sea crossings by doing casual jobs, including broadcasting and ranch work in the United States and grave digging in Mexico. After America, they toured the British Isles and all over West Europe before crossing the Near and Middle East. In Spain they were arrested as suspected spies. They were set free after 37 hours with an apology and their fares paid to Tangier.—Lahore, August 29.

Change in Milk Deliveries Night deliveries of milk to Christchurch consumers will end tomorrow. After tomorrow nisht no milk will be delivered until Friday morning. Vendors who have been delivering milk at nights are now resuming their normal morning rounds. Thursday’s milk will be delivered on Wednesday night, so that there will be no delivery by these vendors until Friday morning. Southshore or Southend

Residents of South New Brighton, in the area at present known as the Spit, asked the City Council recently to approve a distinctive name for the area, and suggested Southshore or Southend. with preference for the former. The council last evening considered that Southshore was not truly indicative of the area’s character, which was in fact not the south shore. The residents have been asked by the council to consider the suggestion that the area be known as Southend. Ranfurly Shield Gate Admission charges for the Ranfurly Shield match between Canterbury and Auckland on Saturday amounted to £4200. The match was attended by 33.000 spectators. This is second to the record shield gate of last season, when 3&50D saw Canterbury play Waikato, and the gaoss receipts reached £4670. Heated Exchanges at Convention

Heated exchanges occurred in a discussion on the United Nations at the convention on international relations in Christchurch last evening. Although members of the panel disagreed politely, a number of the 200 persons in the Canterbury University College hall became very noisy. Speakers from the floor and speakers on the dais were heckled, and some were told to sit down or keep quiet when they tried to talk amid a barrage of derisive and derogatory remarks shouted from one end of the hall to the other. Some delegates became so worked up in vehement expressions of their views that their voices became lost in the echoing din of the loudspeakers. Apart from the panel and its chairman (Mr A. J. Danks). who showed restraint in a difficult meeting and made a number of worthwhile contributions to the discussion, there were few coherent speeches. Packaged Meat

British butchers are tending more and more to sell pre-cut, packaged, and ticketed joints and cuts, a New Zealand meat exporter. Mr R. M. Waller, said after his return from a visit to Britain. He said the practice was for a shop to have one butcher breaking down carcases. Girls weighed the cuts, ticketed them with the price and a description of the way in which they could be cooked, wrapped them in clear plastic, and stored them in a refrigerator. Sales girls sold from display refrigerators. Mr Waller said this method of operation was specially valuable where skilled male labour was hard to get.— (P.A.)

Cigarette for Churchill Sir Winston Churchill smoked a cigarette instead of his customary cigar as he watched his two-year-old filly, Pinnacle, win the Elack and Decker Plate, run at Windsor racecourse yesterday.—London, August 28. Work of UN. Agencies Grants of money to the specialised agencies of the United Nations paid big dividends, said Mr A. B. Ryan, a member of a panel which discussed the United Nations at the convention on international relations last evening. Mr Ryan said that in Greece the World Health Organisation had spread D.D.T. to combat malaria. In spine areas where malaria had an incidence of 85 per cent, of the total population the incidence had dropped to 5 per cent. The work of the organisation was reflected in industrial output figures of Greek production which had increased by 150,000.000 working days a year. “That is the sort of thing that the specialised agencies are doing,” he said.

Traffic Officers’ Training A training school for traffic officers was not favoured by Cr. N. R. Forbes, chairman of the traffic committee, when the proposal was made to the City Council last evening. Cr. J. E. Tait said it was wrong to take men straight off the street and put them on traffic duty, “We don’t,” Cr. Forbes replied. A training school, perhaps in conjunction with the Government would give young men a chance to make a career as traffic officers. Cr. A. R. Guthrey said. “I don’t think there is any need for a school.” Cr. Forbes said. “Just recently we had a distinguished visitor who complimented the superintendent on the staff and the way they carried out their duties. New men are not sent straight on the street, but given a certain schooling until they are ready.” There had not been a finer lot of applicants than the last lot. he said, and some had already had traffic control experience overseas. If a training school was begun there was no guarantee that men would carry on with the work. Mixed Bathing Opposed Enrique Cardinal Pla y Daniel. Archbishop of Toledo, has published a pastoral exhortation insisting that the sexes should have separate bathing places. The Cardinal wrote: ‘ Bathing is an act of hygiene, and the natural thing is that such acts should be carried out in privacy. If it must be done in public, then the sexes should be separated. It is more important to separate the sexes in swimming pools than at the seaside because of the limited space. The hygienic custom of bathing should never be turned into an entertainment for others. Sensur! immorality is encouraged when restaurants and even dance floors are set up alongside swimming pools. Naturally, those who deny the force of human passions, a sad inheritance of original sin. defend these exhibitions which encourage sensuality, but this should never be the viewpoint of good Christians.”—Madrid, August 28. Roading Loan for Riccarton

A formal resolution to apply to the Local Government Loans Board for sanction to raise a loan of £40.000 for street improvement and reconstruction vzas passed by the Riccarton Borough Council at its meeting last evening. The council resolved that the rate of interest payable be 4 per cent., that the term of the loan be 10 years, that a sinking fund be created for a term of 20 years at a rate of £3 14s 5d per cent., that a special security rate of 1.286 d in the £ on the rateable unimproved value of the borough be struck when required, and that the annual interest and sinking fund charges be met from the council’s allocation of the National Roads Board’s funds.