General News

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27985, 4 June 1956, Page 10

General News

Power Cuts A power cut of one hour between 6 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. will be made in areas A and B of the Municipal Electricity. Department’s district today. Tomorrow the cut will be at the same J time in areas C and D. As from today, there will be no morning cuts. The use of water heaters where no alternative means are available is allowed from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. each day. “Cast Your Bread . . The vicar of St. Faith’s Anglican Church, Ohinemutu, Rotorua, aware of the church’s need of repairs, and realising that there was no money with which to do them, gave his flock £6o* and had £965 returned about a month later. The the Rev. H. Rangiihu, gave 12 selected parishioners each £5 as a talent, and they immediately organised concerts and fairs, and made clothing and curios to help to fill the church’s coffers. Mr John Taiapa, a celebrated carver, turned £5 into £154 by making and selling ornaments. Members of the church’s youth club, who helped an overseas visitor in making a film of Maori life, were not far behind with £IOO.—(P.A.) Halyard Cut Again For the second time no Union Jack flew from the flagpole in Victoria square, when the diminishing band of South African veterans heid their annual parade yesterday. “This is the second year in succession that the halyard has been cut before our ceremony at the Queen Victoria statue,” said the secretary of the South African War Veterans’ Association (Mr T. F. S. Rudd). “I think ii’s a very mean trick,” he said. Temperatures in Antarctic Residents in Christchurch who complain of frosts are fortunate compared with eight Britons at the Vahsel Bay advance case in the Weddell Sea this winter. While preparing for next summer’s expedition, the men are sleeping in tents and working in total darkness—day and night—erecting a base hut. The temperature a few days ago was 60 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, or 92 degrees of frost. “Those fellows are havmg a hard time of it,” said Squadron Leader J. R. Claydon in Christchurch on Saturday. Squadron Leader Claydon accompanied the advance party to lay out stores for the base last summer. Salvage of the Clansman A start is expected to be made at Whakatane today with salvaging cargo from the stranded coaster Clansman. In spite of heavy rain and a considerable swell at the bar, preliminary work was pushed ahead at the weekend. A bow anchor and two seaward moorings have been put out from the Auckland scow Jane Gifford, which will be used to unload the cargo. One of the coaster’s derricks has been removed, and the other swung into a working position. One of the winches has been started up, and work is being done on the second winch. The Jane Giffords own derrick will also be use to handled cargo. Four big fire origade trailer pumps have been brought to Whakatane, but these cannot be put aboard the Clansman until the deck cargo—drums of oil, steel, and timber —has been removed. —(P.A.) Mild Cheese Dearer Mild cheese will be dearer in Christchurch this week. Increases in the retail prices of Cheddar cheese up to .our months old, which is mild cheese, nave been made in a price order issued by the Price Tribunal which came into force on June 1. For loaf size (about 101 b) cheese the price has been increased from Is 10£d to 2s Id a pound, and lor all other sizes the price has been increased from Is to Is lid. Prices for mild cheese have been unchanged since October last year.

Country Children’s Education The Minister of Education (Mr R. M. Algie), speaking at the opening of the Orewa District High School on Saturday, said that the Government hoped to bring full post-primary schools into country districts which were served only by district high schools. “I want boys and girls to get as good an education by remaining at home as they could get by leaving home and going to a boarding school,’’ he said. "We want to postpone for as long as possible the time when a child has to leave home. We want them to be at home while they are children, and so there must be as first class an education available near home as could be obtained by going away.”— (P.A.) No. 1 Taxi A private taxi owner in Whangarei will get the coveted No. 1 licence plate this year. Private taxis have been allocated the first ICOO numbers of the new series. Numbers for private motorists start at 10.001 and —because the sequence of numbers now runs rom north to south—the Auckland car licences will be from 23,001 to 100,000 Whangarei Gasworks to Close After being in operation for nearly 50 years the Whangarei gasworks will close on August 31. The company has been in voluntary liquidation for several years. Now that it has been decided that the works are not necessary under the co-ordination arrangement. the assets of the company, which include valuable business sections in Whangarei. will be sold..