General News

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27989, 8 June 1956, Page 10

General News

Power Cuts There will be no oower cuts in the Municipal Electricity Department’s district today. Electric water heaters mav be used between 7 p.m. today and 7 a.m. tomorrow, where no alternative method of water heating is available. Tomorrow there will be an hour cut between 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. in the whole district. Electric water heaters may be used between 7 p.m. tomorrow and 7 a.m. on Sunday. To Gold Lettering: £25 An item of about £25 for gold lettering caused raised eyebrows at a meeting of the Christchurch Boys' High School board of governors yesterday. Mrs L. J. Broomfield drew the attention of the headmaster (Mr J. Leggat) to the entr in the statement of accounts for payment. “I must have signed it at some time,” he remarked. “I think it will be correct,” said Mrs Broomfield. “We have been having quite a bit of lettering done recently.” Bidding Slow at Auction Only one section was sold when five on or adjacent to Merivale Lane and Winchester street were offered for sale by auction in Christchurch yesterday. Bidding was slow, and apart from one section which was sold for £l5OO, all failed to reach the reserve and were passed in. Rail-car Service “Fair and reasonable,” said the transport committee of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce last evening on advice by the Railways Department on the request of a member of the chamber that there should be an additional rail-car to the West Coast every day, leaving Christchurch about 6 p.m. On the committee's recommendation the council took no action because of the non-availability of rail-cars and the lack of evidence of demand for a service such as proposed. Supplies for Double Hills Runs Runholders in the Rakaia gorge area were yesterday able to receive quantities of coal and other heavy goods for the first time since Double Hills Runs road was washed out by the flooding of the Rakaia river at Black hill early last month. On Wednesday a bulldozer from the Ashburton County Council made a temporary road to the riverbed on the Glenrock side of Black hill, and vehicles were brought down it to be loaded on an army trailer which took them through fords to the Methven side of Black hill. During the last few weeks runholders have been receiving supplies by air. General Kippenberger’s Pennant The fish-tailed divisional commander’s pennant which was flying from the bonnet of Major-General H K. Kippenberger's staff car when he was wounded during the assault on Cassino, Italy, has been presented to his old school. At th*' Christchurch Boys’ High School seventy-fifth anniversary celebrations, Mr Stenhen Sullivan, who was General Kippenberger’s driver at the time, and is an old boy of the school, handed the pennant back to his former commander, with the suggestion that it be presented to the school. The pennant, framed and inscribed, will be hung below the general’s photograph on the main staircase. Robbery Near Police Station Thieves cut a safe open with an acetylene torch at the premises of Electric Refrigeration (New Zealand'. Ltd. Wellington, about 200 yards from the Central Police Station in Wariny Taylor street. It is not known how entry was gained, but the intruders took the safe from the office in the front of the building and carried it to a lunch room. They used the firm's torch to cut a hole in it. — (P.A.) £3,250,000 for Cheques The cheque service of trading banks in New Zealand was provided entirely free of charge, even though the service cost £3,250,000 a year, the Minister of Works (Mr W. S. Goosman) told a political meeting at Little River last evening. Mr Goosman said that the charge of 2d on each cheque was a Government tax. Three-quarters of all trading banks staffs —5000 persons did nothing else but run the cheque service and their wages cost £3,000,000. Stationery cost £250.000. “Interest they get for money they lend pays for the system; otherwise they would have to charge a substantial amount for running it. That is the service the banks give to this country and it is of very great benefit,” Mr Goosman said.

Submarine at Wellington A small group stood in the rain yesterday to watch the Royal Navy submarine Telemachus berth at the Wellington inter-island wharf. LieutenantCommander J. E. Morre, the captain, said the Telemachus had left Sydnev for Wellington on June 1. Almost immediately very heavy weather was encountered, and this had lasted for four days. Throughout the voyage to Wellington the 'submarine dived to smooth water every six hours, he said. This was to enable scientists aboard to take readings for the ocean gravity survej' in the Pacific. The Telemachus will leave Wellington tomorrow for Auckland. Between June 15 and 29 she will- participate in exercises with the Royal New Zealand Navy and Air Force. More exercises with the R.N.Z.A.F. will be held in the Pacific next month.—(P.A.)