General News

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28082, 25 September 1956, Page 12

General News

Luxury Potatoes Early potatoes sold at 5s 5d a pound in Dunedin last week. This price, usually associated with hothouse tomatoes and strawberries, was paid for eight pounds of new season’s potatoes sent to a produce market by a Sawyers Bay grower.—(P.A.) Off-street Parking San Francisco’s example of using an open space comparable with Latimer square for off-street parking was quoted by Mr R. H. Maddren, when, with the president (Mr A. H. Lee), he agreed to represent the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association at a meeting convened by the City Council for next Monday to discuss parking. When the invitation to the meeting was received at a meeting of the association’s council last evening, Mr F. C. Penfold (who is a city' councillor) urged that the two delegates should preferably be mem. with, knowledge of off-street parking overseas. Mr Maddren said that in San Francisco an area the size of Latimer Square had been raised, and parking provided in the excavations and grassed playing fields on the surface. He thought that a similar move could be made in Christchurch to overcome the parking problem. Home for the “Old Bus” The Southern Cross, the first plane to fly the Pacific (Oakland, California, to Brisbane), and the Tasman, first to circle the globe at the equator, and a one-time holder of England-Australia records, will find a permanent home in Brisbane. The high-winged threeengined Fokker, the “ol<Kbus” of the Australian aviation pioneer, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, has been stored in Sydney for 21 years. It was last flown seven years ago, when it came out of retirement to help in the making oL the film “Smithy.” Brisbane was the birthplace of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. His aircraft will be housed at the city’s Eagle Farm airport.—Sydney, September 24. Earthquake at Cheviot A slight earthquake lasting about two seconds was experienced in the Cheviot township at 4.31 p.m. yesterday. The movement set lights swinging, but did not register on the seismograph at the Cheviot Post Office. One woman described it as “a rock-and-roll motion.” Engineering Scholarship The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company has offered Canterbury University College a post graduate scholarship in engineering of a value of £3OO a year. The Rector (Dr F. J. Llewellyn), who reported this to the college council yesterday, said that negotiations on terms and conditions of the award were proceeding, and he hoped to be able to report furtner to the next meeting of the council. In proposing that the council place on record its appreciation of the company’s gesture, Mr E. B. E. Taylor said that one gained the impression that the college was now receiving wider public support from commercial undertakings. Theft From Fair Site

Schoolboys are believed to have stolen 10 soda siphons from the premises of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association in Ferry road during the week-end, and to have broken the windscreen and a window of a truck parked there. The police are investigating. The damage was discovered on Sunday morning by a caretaker, who found that one of the doors in the south-west part of the building had been torn from its hinges. The premises are used as the site for the New Zealand Industries Fair each year. Dominion Day Observance

Yesterday was Dominion Day—the forty-ninth anniversary of New Zealand’s becoming a Dominion. To mark the occasion flags were flown on many business buildings in Christchurch. Some schools in outlying areas, which do not observe the provincial Anniversary Day holiday, observed yesterday as a holiday. Seeing Others at Work

Manufacturers in Christchurch will next week begin a series of visits to factories in the metropolitan area to see how the other man works. The first visit will be to a tyre factory. Promise of strong representation al the factory visits was given when the fixture was announced at a meeting last evening of the council of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association.