General News

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27796, 22 October 1955, Page 8

General News

A 94-year-old man, Thomas Harley, told a Judge yesterday that he lived for several years in a bathroom. “Whenever anyone in the house wants to use the bathroom, I have to get up and leave,” Harley said. He has been a lodger in a house in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, for 25 years. He said that he shifted to the bathroom because the house was crowded. He paid 30s a week and now had been asked to move out altogether. Harley asked for possession of a house he owned, and the Judge decided that Harley “reasonably required” his house and gave the tenants two months to move.— London, October 21. - Homecraft Teachers Because of an acute shortage of homecrait teachers in the Dominion, .the Canterbury Education Board decided yesterday to ask the Education Department to arrange for more students to be trained in the course each year. Mr R. W. Sansom told the board that many more students must be trained for this work if the homecraft rooms in manaul training centres at district high schools and post-primary schools were to operate efficiently. Hookahs and Lung Cancer The British Medical Association wants to get in touch ‘ with ' hookah .smokers to learn the incidence of cancer of the lungs among them. A hookah is a tobacco pipe in which the smoke passes through water before it is inhaled. “Such filtration processes usually do not remove any one compound completely, and their action is therefore only equivalent to smoking less tobacco,” an article in the British Medical Journal said.—London, October 20. Supreme Court Session Only two accused have been committed for trial at the criminal session of the Supreme Court, which will open in Christchurch on Tuesday. Mr Justice McGregor will be the presiding judge. Money Puzzle Eight-year-old Carol Lynn Elliott was happy, but a little puzzled, today. She was one of thousands who sent President Eisenhower birthday greetings with hopes for his speedy recovery from his heart attack. She attached a dime to her letter, with these instructions: “For some ice cream.” Carol received this personal letter from Mrs Mamie Eisenhower: “How very nice of you to send the President the lovely card and dime as a little birthday gift. We both appreciate your friendly thought of him, but feel you should keep the money for yourself. It is therefore being returned to you with our best wishes.” Carol vainly shook the envelope—the dime was not there. Colombus (Ohio), October 21. School Adopts Sledge Dog A Wellington school has offered to pay the upkeep of the first dog purchased for the New Zealand Antarctic Expedition, with the request that the dog should have an Irish name. In a letter received by Mr A. S. Helm, secretary of the Ross Sea Committee, a cheque for £5O was enclosed to cover the cost of the dog’s upkeep. The letter read in part: “We have much pleasure in undertaking ‘adoption of a dog’ in the New Zealand Antarctic Expedition. Without wishing to place you under any obligation we should be glad if you would select a likely pup. give him a collar with our colours, call him ‘Paddy,’ train him, and send him down to work for our men in the Antarctic.” Flag for City of Auckland Auckland may soon have its own specially designed flag flying above the town hall. The city council has obtained from the College of Heralds, London, a layout of the flag, which is based on the city’s coat of arms. The design shows a cornucopia on a blue background and pick and shovel on a red background in separate panels at the top. A sailing ship under full canvas, on a white background, occupies the lower two-thirds of the flag. A three-yard flag will probably be necessary to make the heraldic symbols visible from the street. Difficulty has been experienced in getting the flag woven locally. Cities in England fly their own flags when the council is in session. National Car Museum Wellington may get a national museum of cars if proposals of Mr S. W. Moult of Paraparaumu, are accepted. Mr Moult, who has a fine collection of early vehicles, offered them to Wanganui, but the city council cannot build a museum for them. A letter from Mr Moult received at a meeting of the Wanganui City Council said two machines earlier promised had now been given to Wellington. If the council agreed that the whole collection should go to Wellington as a national museum, Dr. R. A. Falla, director of the Dominion Museum, would inquire about the erection of a , suitable building. Big Fat Lamb Show

Entries which, in the opinion of the president, Mr W. R. A. Parsons, make it one of the biggest fat lamb shows in the country, have been received for the Amberley Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s annual show, which will be held next Saturday. There will be 436 lambs at the show, and in one class alone—the class for six lambs suitable for export—there are 22 entries with 132 lambs. In other classes there will be 84 and 78 lambs. Two sections will be judged on the hooks on the following Monday morning after the show and in these classes there are 63 and 24 lambs. Total sheep entries for the show are 592, a record, bettering the 549 received for the association’s jubilee show in 1952. Tenancy Act Exemptions Houses and rooms which had not been let during the last three months were exempt from any of the provisions of the Tenancy Act passed this week, said the Minister of Labour (Mr W. Sullivan) in Wellington yesterday. He said he expected the exemptions would result in more accommodation becoming available. He appealed to persons with vacant houses or rooms to make them available to those in need of them.—(P.A.) Fishing Rivers The following was the condition of the fishing rivers at noon yesterday, according to advice received by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society: Selwyn, Lower Rakaia, Waimakariri and Halswell, clear and fishable; Hurunui, slightly discoloured but fishable; Ashley, discoloured and unfishable; Waiau, dirty and unfishable; Upper Rakaia, normal and clear. The weather at Lake Coleridge and Highbank yesterday was cloudy. The Rangitata and Rakaia rivers were clear and fishable yesterday, according to a report from the Ashburton Acclimatisation Society,'but the Ashburton river was discoloured. Quick Trip The most travelled passenger on the ten thousandth trans-Tasman flight by TEAL, from Sydney to Auckland on October 28, will be the airline’s vice-chairman, Mr T. A. Barrow. Making a quick business trip to Sydney, he will leave Auckland at 9.15 a.m. and arrive back at 10.15 p.m. the same day. When Mr Barrow first crossed the Tasman Sea in 1940, the trip took 10 hours one way. On October 28, the two-way trip will take about the same time. He will have about three hours in Sydney. Time-Signal Pips New equipment is being installed at New Zealand seismograph stations that will automatically record the radio time-signal pips on the record sheets of earthquakes at these stations. Greater timing accuracy has resulted, reports the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which has developed the equipment. The equipment, a radio receiver with the time-marking mechanism of the seismograph connected in place of the loudspeaker, operates continuously. Time-signal pulses are distributed to the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, Radio ZLW, the Post and Telegraph Department, the Railways and other services. Transmission of time signals is controlled directly by the Seismological Observatory, Wellington, to the broadcasting service.