General News

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27795, 21 October 1955, Page 12

General News

... In the Best Regulated Families A Transport Department car, driven by the chief traffic officer for the Nelson, Marlborough, Buller, and West Coast areas (Mr A. Garriock), with the No. 8 Transport Licensing Authority (Mr H. W. Tremewan) and the Authority's secretary (Mir A. E. Spivey) as passengers, was involved in a collision near Woodpecker Bay on the Greymouth-Westport road yesterday. The other car was driven by a member of the Greymouth Road Safety Committee, Mr R. J. Truman. No-one was injured, but both cars were damaged.— (F.0.0.R.) Nelson’s Signal The most famous signal in British naval history will be hoisted on the Victoria square flagstaff this morning, 150 years after Lord Nelson commanded it to be flown from H.M.S. Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. The signal will be hoisted by Lieu-tenant-Commander F. Campbell, R.N.Z N.R., deputy-chairman of the executive of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League. An onlooker facing the flagstaff will be able to make out the signal as follows: "England expects,” flying from the truck; “that every” from the outer, left-hand yard: “man will" from the outer right-hand yard; “do his,” inner left: “duty” inner right. The signal will comprise 31 flags. A 1! the words will be in the original cx’o, except for “duty.” which was not in the code and which had to be spelt out. Gisborne a City From November 1 Gisborne will be a city. A proclamation to this effect appears in the Gazette. During August Gisborne’s population reached 20.000. It is the fourteenth New Zealand centre to be declared a city. The population of Hastings also passed 20.000 during August, according to the Government Statistician’s estimate.

but the borough council has not yet taken steps to have the town proclaimed a city. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr S. W. Smith) yesterday extended his congratulations to Gisborne.—(P. A.) Seal at Sumner Several Scarborough residents gathered near the clock tower last evening when a large animal was seen resting on the rocks. Every time it was approached it roared loudly, and in the darkness they could not distinguish whether it was a sea lion or fur seal. The animal was five to six feet long. Nursery Train A man who had had five women and eight children with a number of prams on a trailer behind the tractor he was driving pleaded not guilty in the Whakatane Magistrate’s Court to a charge of dangerous driving. Traffic Inspector A. Carling said the trailer had been so packed that the defendant, Murray Taitapanui, had Lad another woman passenger perched alongside him on the seat of the tractor. Mr Carling said when he stopped the tractor the women had been kneeling on the trailer with the prams they had been wheeling to Ruatoki for shopping. Taitapanui was convicted and fined £3.—(P.A.) Lingerie Lawsuit A judge today ordered a woman to be evicted from her flat because she displayed her underwear on a clothesline outside her window. The landlord, Charles Doorey, of Brixton, south-west London, told Judge Clothier: “Workmen on some flats opposite started whistling at it. I complained to her. but she continued doing it.” Miss Nora Bean, pleading with the judge to be allowed to remain in the flat, said: “I have to dry my washing somewhere.” But the judge ruled that her conduct amounted “at least to an annoyance, if not a nuisance.” He ordered her to leave within 28 days.—London, October 20. Police Recruiting

In just a little over two weeks, Senior-Sergeant S. J. Anderson, officer in charge of police recruiting in the Canterbury district, has received more than 80 applications from men and women wishing to join the force. Eight of the applicants are women. Mibile Bay, Westport Mabelle Bay, Westport, was probably intended to be known as Mabile Bay. Evidence for this came up at a meeting of the Canterbury Museum Trust Board yesterday, when the Director (Dr. Roger Duff) said that an interesting plan of an agricultural lease of land bordering the Grey river on the Nelson-Canterbury boundary had been presented to the museum by Mr Robert Patterson, of Westport. The area was surveyed by Theophilus Mabile of Brighton and the plan signed by him. The bay was formerly named Mabel Bay, and was later changed by the Geographic Board to Mabelle Bay, Westport. The plan strongly supported Mr Patterson’s theory that the bay should be known as Mabile Bay, said Dr. Duff. Kowhai Seed for Japan The Minister of Education (Mr R. M. Algie) has presorted the Japanese Minister of Social Welfare (Mr Hideji Kawasaki) with a box of kowhai seeds, to be distributed for planting by Japanese school children. In 1953 the ■Education Department received a packet of cherry tree seeds sent by Japanese school children. Roads Board Expenditure Expenditure on New Zealand highways during the six months from April 1 to September 30 this year showed a 54 per cent, increase over the same period last year, according to a statement of receipts and payments tabled before the National Roads Board yesterday. The engineer (Mr L. C. Malt) reported that double the amount of contracts had been let compared with last year—£2,4oo,ooo against £l.3oo.ooo—and the contracts had been let earlier.— (FA.)