General News

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27883, 3 February 1956, Page 10

General News

Auckland Gale Warning The fringe of the tropical cyclone which lashed Fiji three days ago is expected to reach Auckland this morning. Rain and an easterly gale are forecast, and shipping and aircraft have been issued with a gale warning. Coastal shipping in the north has already been delayed by heavy seas, and air services are likely to be affected today.—(P-A.) Guards on Heaters Support for a proposal that all electric heaters should be provided with adequate guards was given by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce last evening, but the chamber opposed the introduction of regulations under section 11 of the Standards Act. “This is an improper use of the act,” said Mr E. P. Wills. Unwilling Passenger An Italian fishing boat arrived at Giulianova (Italy) last night with an unwilling passenger—a Jugoslav naval officer who had boarded the ship to arrest it. He was the commander of a Jugoslav naval patrol boat which arrested the fishing boat in the Adriatic and ordered it to make foi the nearest Jugoslav port. But the fishing boat fled when its escort ran aground on the Dalmatian coast in a violent storm.— Rome, February 2. Supply Company History Another unit war history of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force has been completed. It is that of the Supply Company, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Any former member of the company, or the next-of-kin of a dead member, is entitled upon application to a free copy. So are former servicemen who served with the 2nd Field Bakery Section, the Water Issue Section, or the 2nd Divisional Postal Unit.—(P.A.) Sunday Skating Allowed An elder of the Presbyterian Church who is also a member of the East Coast Bays Borough Council, near Auckland, sought to restrain his council from throwing open on Sunday afternoons the skating rink at Brown’s Bay and making a charge. The councillor was Mr A. R. McNeilly. He just failed to prevent the move to open the rink. Five councillors voted in favour and four against. Auckland Volcanic Cones

The Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board believes in the preservation of the Auckland volcanic cones, and it does not intend “at this juncture” to take scoria from any except Mount Gabriel, at Mangere. The Auckland Historic Places Society considers that Mount Gabriel has now lost its historic value as a result of quarrying. The board assured a deputation from the society that if it should contemplate quarrying a cone, it would consult the organisation. Milk Tankers for Bombay Nine insulated milk tankers, part of an order of 20, will be loaded in the Wairimu at Auckland on Monday for shipment to India. The tankers, each of which has a capacity of 3000 gallons and weighs 61 tons empty, were constructed by a Hamilton firm, and are being exported under the Colombo Plan. They will be used on rail and road to carry milk to factories in Bombay. Under a £250,000 plan, New Zealand is helping India to improve its milk supplies and dairy equipment, and is contributing £85.000 towards the Bombay scheme.— (P.A.) Soviet Sport Mr Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, said today that the United States had let the totalitarian countries take over sport, and that they grew stronger and stronger while Americans became “softer and softer.” In an interview in “Sports Illustrated” magazine, he also emphasised that the charge of professionalism applied no more to the Russians than it did to the Americans. “The Soviet Union’s brilliant showing in international competition resulted from an intensive national sports programme such as the United States Olympic Committee has been recommending for years,” he said. “The shame of it is that they’re doing just what we’ve been preaching for the last 30 or 40 years. Now they know the value of sport.” He said he saw no evidence of special benefits for athletes when he visited the Soviet Union two years ago.—New York. February 1. Pakistani Crew for Ngaio

Forty-two Pakistani seamen arrived at Whenuapai last evening on their way to Wellington, where tnev will man the former Wellington-Nelson ferry vessel Ngaio. They will sail her to India for her new owners, the Gulf Stream Ship Company, Karachi. The men arrived on a specially-chartered DC-4 airliner from Karachi, and left almost immediately by railway bus for Wellington.—(P.A.) School Certificate Subjects

A remit asking that the number of subjects for School Certificate be increased from four to five, and that English, mathematics, and a foreign language or a science be compulsory, will be dealt with at the seventy-third annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute in Wellington on May 7. The remit, which is from Hokianga, asks that Maori be counted as a foreign language. National Women’s Hospital

Working drawings of the first section—the ward block—of the National Women’s Hospital have been received by the building committee of the Auckland Hospital Board. They will now be sent to the Department of Health and the Ministry of Works for detailed examination. “We are now another step forward,” said Mr R. F. Galbraith, secretary of the board. “The architects are drawing the plans in sections and as each is completed it means the date for calling tenders for the hospital is brought nearer.” The next section is the services block and, after that, the nurses’ home. Tenders may be called by the middle of the year. Education Architect Described as the doyen of education ?I^v ltects in New Zealand. Mr A. B Miller, architect to the Auckland Education Board for 30 years, retired this week. “Mr Miller is acknowledged throughout New Zealand as the leading education board architect.” said the chairman (Mr I. J. Day). The chairman of the works committee (Mr S S Green) said Mr Miller had made his mark on the school life of New Zealand. His plans were used all over the country.