General News

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28178, 17 January 1957, Page 8

General News

Missing Child Found A three-year-old boy, Philip Ward, of 201 A Linwood avenue.

who was reported missing on the New Brighton beach about 3 p.m. yesterday, was later found by his

sister near the Waimairi Surf Club pavilion about 6 p.m. The boy had wandered two miles up the beach. When the boy was reported missing to the New Brighton police, a police patrol car was sent to search the streets of the New Brighton district, and policemen from the New Brighton and North New Brighton stations searched the sandhill areas on foot. There were large crowds <jn the beach yesterday afternoon and the boy apparently wandered off without being noticed. He was none the worse for the experience. Alterations When a Bendigo traffic policeman noticed a car driven by Kenneth Whittle near Bendigo on December 1, he thought there was something odd about its appearance, so he stopped Whittle and examined the car. He found it had odd-sized front wheels, worn rear brake drums and a footbrake pedal which, when pressed to the floor, operated the accelerator. Whittle appeared in Bendigo City Court yesterday, where he was fined £lO for driving a car which was not in safe and serviceable condition. — Melbourne, January 16. Penguin At North Beach A visitor whose Antarctic cousins have been in the news lately arrived at North Beach yesterday morning. The visitor, a little blue penguin, appeared somewhat sick and did not seem much interested in some fish and water given it by Mr G. Milesi, a North Beach resident. About 7.30 p.m. the penguin was put back in the sea and it appeared to swim away. The penguin attracted the attention of many persons on the beach during yesterday’s warm weather. Sea Trip by Canoe Two Hamilton men, Mr P. Luckie and Mr R. McDonald, have paddled two 16-foot canoes around the Coromandel peninsula. They arrived at Coromandel on Sunday night, 14 days and about 100 miles after leaving Waihi. They made the trip in plywood and fibre-glass canoes designed and built by Mr Luckie specially for sea canoeing.— (P.A.) See Your Own Ulcers

Patients with stomach ti ouble can now see their ulcers on television, the “Daily Express’’ said 'today. This is possible with the invention of a TV device small enough to be swallowed. A thin tube containing mirrors and a light projects a picture of the inside of the stomach into a small TV camera outside the body. The picture, which shows any deformity, appears on a TV screen. A French specialist, Mr Dubois de Montreynaud. is using this device for diagnosis at a clinic at Rheims. Swedish doctors are trying to make a TV camera small enough to be swallowed. —London, January 15.' Scott Statue Impresses

With a New Zealand party engaged in an Antarctic exploration venture this year and next, the Scott statue has even more significance than usual for Christchurch citizens. Last evening, just at dark, the figure of Scott, appearing dazzling white under floodlighting, was silhoutted against a night sky of an unusually deep and intense blue. The effect was most impressive. Snakebites for Swimme.s

Canberra lifesavers, unlike their coastal counterparts, are not on the look-out for sharks but for snakes. A Canberra official said today a large number of black and brown snakes had been seen this year near the Murrumbidgee river, some of the principal swimming areas for the capital. Recently swimmers at the Cotter pool and the Murrumbidgee river had left the water in a hurry after snakes had been seen nearby. Each of the 18 members of the life saving patrol has been issued with snake bite outfits and they have been instructed to keep a watch so they can give a snake alarm to bathers. —Canberra, January 16.