General News

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 10

General News

Uranium Prospecting An area of almost 12,500 acres in the Moonlight area of the Grey valley was sought for radioactive mineral prospecting by the Lime and Marble Company, Mapua, Nelson, in the Warden’s Court at Greymouth yesterday. Two blocks were subject of applications by the company for prospecting warrants. They are adjoining and of 7239 and 5195 acres. The applications were granted by Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M., subject to the consent of the Minister of Mines and the Minister of Forests. The company is already engaged in uranium exploration work over a big block on the north bank of the Buller river, where the most encouraging results yet found in New Zealand have been obtained. —(P.A.) Antarctic Film

A film taken of the summer activities of the New Zealand expedition in the Antarctic will be distributed for public exhibition in a few weeks, the Ross Sea Committee announced yesterday The film will be 2000 feet long. It has been edited from 10,000 feet of film taken by Mr Derek Wright, the National Film Unit cameraman with the expedition. Military Training Abbut 850 youths are expected for the twenty-fourth intake of military trainees to march into Burnham Camp today. More than 100 of them have already been pre-posted to the North Island, where they will carry out their training. They will be# outfitted at Burnham and sent north on the steamer express on, Friday evening. Pre-posting has been done as far as possible from the trainees’ personal preferences, stated in a questionnaire filled out previously. Sixty will go to the School of Military Engineering at Linton, 15 to the Royal New Zealand Signals Depot at Papakura, and 40 to the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps depot, Waiouru. General Education Asked at the North Canterbury Educational Institute’s meeting about more “general education” in the university, the'Rector of Canterbury University College (Dr. F. J. Llewellyn) said flatly that he did not like it personally. A student embarking on a wide number of subjects, as required in the first years at many American universities, tended towards shallowness and “digest-minded-ness,” he said. If a man "was keen on physics he would gain more by immediately concentrating on that subject and delving as deeply as possible. In all this, Dr. Llewellyn said, he was assuming thrt “education” did not end in the university. One of the difficulties of “general education” was to know whether a student was interested. “A potential doctor at the outset doesn’t want to be fooling around with history,” he said. Teething Trouble The Flying Angel Mission to Seamen in Auckland receives many varied requests, but few have been stranger than that of a middle-aged seaman who called recently and asked for a small paper bag. The seaman explained that his false teeth had been giving him trouble. He wanted the paper bag to put the teeth into, so that he could give his gums a rest while he walked around the city. Connoisseur A white heron has enjoyed a choice diet at the expense of twoOpunake fish fanciers. Sighting goldfish in a pond in the garden of Mr G. Sorrenson, the bird ate 20 of them, reducing the number originally in the pond by about half. When Mr Sorrenson covered the pond with wire netting, the heron turned its attention to ponds on the neighbouring property of Mr B. Morris and made serious inroads into a carefully nurtured collection of rare tropical fish. During its visit to Mr Sorrenson’s garden the bird walked about the lawn only a few feet from Mr Sorrenson and his family. Ashburton Spirits Sales Since the prices of whisky, gin and brandy were reduced on April 3, sales of spirits have increased markedly at hotels under the control of the Ashburton Licensing Trust, according to the report of the secretary, Mr C. Moody, at a meeting of the trust last evening. The price of Scotch whisk} was reduced from 30s to 255, and that of English gin and French brandy from 25s 6d to 23s 6d. Talks on Gas Industry Representatives of the Electrical Supply Authorities’ Association will discuss with the Treasury and the Minister of Works (Mr W. S. Goosman) this week capital construction out of revenue and the taking over and integration of the gas industry. The association will be represented by its president (Mr W. S. N. Rennie), vicepresident (Mr R. Masters), and Mr C. W. Teppett.—(PA..)