General News

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28104, 20 October 1956, Page 10

General News

Remedy for Rooks? If the Royal New Zealand Air Force tested big engines at Wigram. there is a possibility that the rook nuisance might be abated. Tasman Emoire Air-! ways. Limited, has a big sound-proofed ; building on the waterfront at Mechanics Bay. Auckland, where DC-6 and • flying-boat engines are run up to ful 7 j power for testing. At one end there is a tower with a wide inlet for air andanother for exhaust at the other end. In suite of the noise, seagulls were attracted and scores were sucked down into the airtake and killed on the protective netting. Now this trouble is avoided by a system of baffles. £2700 For Coin A world record price of £2700 for an English coin was paid at a London auction for a Charles I gold triple unite from the Oxford mint. 1643. The name unite alludes to the union of England and Scotland under James I—London. October 19. Coaster Holmdale Sold The 679-ton coaster Holmdale has been sold to the Crescent Corporation' of Monrovia. Liberia. The corporation’s representative. Miss Doris P.ettauer. of New York, said in Wellington last evening that the ship would shortly take a cargo of scrap steel to Japan. The Sea Pearl, a motor-vessel which recently brought a : cargo of potatoes to Wellington from Stockton. United States, is owned by the Crescent Corporation, and she also takes scrap steel to Japan. The Holmdale will be renamed the Pacific Pearl. It is not known under what ■ registry the ship will be placed, or what crew will man her.—(P.A.) Warm Week-end Forecast The high temperatures in Christchurch yesterday may continue over labour week-end. High pressures over the central Tasman Sea should sustain the air flow from the northwest, bringing good weather to Can- , terbury. The warmest weather of the spring was maintained over a long period yesterday, the maximum temperature of 76 degrees being recorded about 2 p.m. By 10 a.m. the thermometer had already risen to 68.3 degrees and it passed 72 at noon. By 4 p.m.-it still stood at 73.1 degrees Humidity, which was 90 per cent, at 7 a.m.. was down to 35 at 2 p.m. Colourful Wedding Guests at a recent wedding in Napiei included Mr and Mrs I. Black. Mr R. Black, Mr and Mrs J. Green. Miss A. White, and Mr and Mrs R. Pink. The officiating priest was the Rev. J. L. Gray.— <P.A.) Wine in School ..unches French school children have their i rights about wine drinking in the| same way as their parents, according to I the Fiench National Assembly Com-1 mitttee. It says that there is no reason why children should not have a few drops of wine in their lunch-time glass of water. It supported the demand that there should be a resumption of “spiking” the pupils’ water which stopped when Mr Mendes-France began his milk-drinking campaign two years ago. School Group to Visit Rotorua A party of 22 boys and 20 girls from j the Lyttelton Main School will spend i nearly a week in the Rotorua district next month. Two teachers. Miss M. O’Donnell and Mr J. J. Kennedy, will be in charge of the party. Leaving Lyttelton by the Hinemoa on November 5. they will travel by bus the next day to Whakarewarewa. where they will be billeted in the homes of children of the Maori school. ’The party will return to Lyttelton on November 11. Pupils from the Whakarewarewa Maori School made a similar visit Lyttelton last year. TEAL Aircraft Delayed The Tasman Empire Airways aircraft. due to leave Melbourne for Christchurch at 9.30 a.m. yesterday, was delayed by a mechanical fault. Tt arrived at Harewood at 9 p.m. and departed for Sydney at 11.30 p.m Busy Week-end for A.A. Patrols Anticipating heavy traffic on the roads throughout its district during labour week-end. the Automobile Association (Canterbury) will put on extra patrols and on Monday every patrol officer employed by the association will be on duty. Today, two will concentrate on the Main North road, working either side of Rangiora where the annual show will be held and another will give particular attention to the Ashburton-Rangitata stretch, where help may be found only at long distances. Wide patrols will be made in both Canterbury and the West Coast on Sunday. Labour Day will be busiest with three on the Main North road, one in the Lewis Pass area, one on the Main South road, a utility vehicle in the Arthur’s Pass region, and another working round Reefton. University Grants Committee Although the University of New Zealand calls one schedule of its expenditure “minor capital needs.” individual programmes under this heading may be up to £20.000. Proposals for all colleges were considered by the University Grants Committee at a meeting in Christchurch yesterday. Thev involved smaller buildings and equipment for teaching and research On Thursday a sub-committee inspected Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, and yesterday morning the whole committee toured Canterburv University College, paying particular attention to some decaying stone and to other buildings needing urgent repair. The chairman of the committee < Dr. G. A. Currie) said that even though the college was moving to Riccarton. the fabric of the present buildings must be preserved in good order, whatever their future use might be. Compensation for Road Damage Because of damage caused to a road when heavy trucks carted cargo from the motor-vessel Calm when it went aground, the Egmont County Council was granted £l5O 13s by the National Roads Board at its meeting in Wellington yesterday. The tounty relaxed restrictions on a Class 111 road to assist with the cartage <. f perishable goods. The county previously unsuccessfully claimed the amount granted by the board from the Canterbury Steam Ship Company. Ltd., the owners of the Calm. — (P.A.) Reopening of Milford Hotel Already heavily booked, the Milford i Hotel will reopen for the summer sea-! son on November 7. It now has anl aerodrome for sightseers’ aircraft. A : combined garage and tearooms for , day visitors is near completion. Mr R. ' W. Marshall, chairman of directors of! the Tourist Hotel Corporation, which I assumed control of the Milford and ( othe»- hotels a fortnight ago. said in ( Wellington yesterday that the Tourist' and Publicity Department’s recent • winter experiment to provide air access for tourists while the Homer I Tunnel road was closed had proved ’ very successful. —<P A.) Fishing Rivers According to advice received by the! North Canterbury Acclimatisation j Society, the condition of the fishing I rivers at noon yesterday was: Ha (swell j and Lower Rakaia, clear and fishable: | Waimakariri. clear and fishable with a possibility of discolouration later: | Hurunui. Selwyn and Waiau. dis- 1 coloured but clearing: Ashley, slightly j discoloured but fishable: Upper Rakaia. | normal and clear. There was a north • west wind and light cloud at High-, bank.