General News

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 12

General News

Power Cuts There will be a power cut of one; hour between 6 pm. anc 730 pm. today in areas E and F of the Municipal Electricity Department's district. Tomorrow there will be an hour cut between the same times in areas A and B. Electric water heaters may be used daily between 7 pm. and 7 a.m. where no alternative method of hearing water is available. Problem for Grocers The crowing practice of wives cashing*!aousekeeping cheques when paying grocers' accounts had brought increasing change problems to eilinglon grocers, the president of the Wellington Grocers' Association >Mr H. Sharpies* said yesterday. He said the stage* was being reached where grocers were being required to carry c-n hand more cash than was wise. This applied particular!? in suburban shops, where there were no convenient banking facilities. He suggested that employers should endeavour to _ include a number of j pound notes in the pay packets of '• iheir employees to help to overcome the problem. This procedure might be to the advantage of tradesmen generally. He said the growing orac- * lice at present appeared to be for the husband to bank his wages and write his wife a cheque for weekly 1 or fortnightly household expenses.— Springbok Trophy Damaged The* South African Rugby team suffered an unusual number of injuries : during its short tour of Australia, and when the team arrived at Auckland last night, one of its most prized possessions. a Springbok head, had also joined the casualty list. This head, which will be presented to the first ’earn to beat the Springboks, is. for the time being, without its right horn. ; The head, according to one of the fteam. was dropped in an Australian hotel, and the 12in horn snapped off at the base. It will probably be repaired before the first game of the New Zealand tour against Waikato on Saturday.—«PA.) 100th Match Between Colleges The New Zealand Rugby XV which . will play in Christchurch today contains an old boy from each of two . Auckland colleges which will play their one hundredth match on June 14. The first match between Sacred Heart College and King's College was played in 1904 and the record now stands at 51 wins to Kings and 40 to 'Sacred Heart, with eight drawn. P. T. Walsh was full-back for the Sacred Heart teams of 1952-53 and R. H. i Brown was first five-eighths at King's ‘in 1951-52. The captains of both ■schools' teams from 1904 to 1956 have been invited to a function after the match on June 14. Air Force Security Security measures introduced during his term of office as Chief of the Air Staff in New' Zealand were enforced yesterday when Air Vice-Marshal W. H. Merton gave a farewell press conference in Wellington. A door was unlocked to allow’ journalists to enter. ■ and each reporter and photographer was checked in by a sentry who took the name of each member of the party. “You may find our securitv ’ measures amusing.” Air Vice-Marshal ■ Merton said as the party was leaving. , He explained that secret information l in the possession of the New Zealand ; armed forces was often the propertv of , other governments, and if New Zealand did not come into line with ade- • quate protection for such intelligence , it could not expect to receive it.—

Charting of N.Z. Coast Within the next 20 years the Government hopes to have a complete set of New Zealand-made charts of the New r Zealand coast. This was said in an address in Auckland last night by Commander G. S. Ritchie, captain of the survey ship Lachlan, which for the last three years has been engaged i ,on a resurvey of the coast and of : the islands of the Pacific dependen- . jcies. He said that 14 maps already - . had been completed. The work entailed ; a close examination of the sea-bed ; from the coast to the edge of the cons tinental shelf, which stretched for some miles from the mainland and usually came to an end at a depth of about 100 fathoms. Commander Ritchie said that the complete resurvey was being carried out because the Overseas Shipping Allotment Committee , had convinced the Government that ' the old maps were out of date and that a new set was necessary. The insurance rates for ships trading to NewZealand were very high.—’P.A.) Sport in America ? Unlike New Zealanders, who had tallowed brawn and strength to' take over control of football games. Americans were greatly interested in the lac--I tical side, said Mr M. M. N. Corner. ’ selector for the Auckland Rugby ’ ■ Union, and a recent visitor to the ’ ] United States in his capacity of assistant manaser of the Auckland Savings | Bank, when he spoke at a luncheon ‘meeting of the Auckland Creditmen’s 1 Club yesterday. They were very sport- = ’ minded, particularly from the observer's point of view, and far more educated in the game than observers here .It was usual for a spectator to try ;to work out tactics in advance as a game proceeded. But. in marked con- ' trast to New Zealand practice, very few—consisting mainly of college students tind professionals—out of the 160.00C.000 population actually played. And the nation's youth were not catered for in this respect to nearly the same extent as in New Zealand.—‘P.A.) Collection of Veteran Cars The director of the Dominion Mujseum ‘Dr. R. A. Falla* has accepted an offer by Mr S. W. Mcu’ti of Paraparaumu. to present his collection of early motor-ears to the museum. The collection comprises 28 cars, ranging ?from a rope-drive car to cars with conventional gears, and including planet-ary-driven. friction-drive, and chain- ,; driven vehicles. They have been collected by Mr Moult during the last 20 years at a cost of more than £2OOO. • <P.A.»