General News

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28481, 10 January 1958, Page 10

General News

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Police today searched for a bus passenger m at Middlesborough, Yorkshire, who tired of waiting for the driver to return and drove the bus home himself—with the other passengers’ approval. The incident happened on New Year’s Eve, when the bus was full and waiting to leave from the town centre for a housing estate five miles away. The driver and conductor got off and had not returned several minutes after it should have left The passenger jumped into the driver’s seat and took the bus along the usual route with another passenger acting as conductor.—London, January 8. School Certificate The Director of Education (Mr C. E. Beeby) said yesterday that the Department of Education hoped to have the results of the school certificate examination published not later than January 20, in spite of the record number of nearly 20,000 candidates.— (P.A.) Work At Otira Very good progress has been made with the filling of the scoured gap in the railway embankment at Otira. In eight days 25,00 p yards of filling has been completed which has brought the bank to two-thirds its original height. About 25 men have been working 15 or 16 hours a day, including New Year’s Day and last Sunday. They have worked in blazing sun, high winds and showers, but so far there has been no weather bad enough to hold up the reconstruction. Providing the weather holds, the railway should be restored by the original target e ’date, January 20. (F.0.0.R>

Wellington Weather Yesterday was the hottest day this year in Wellington, the temperature at 11 a.m. being 69 degrees. The second hottest day was on January 2, when the temperature was almost 68 degrees. But rainfall in the city this month—4.lBin—has already exceeded the normal monthly average of 3.08 in. The highest temperature for the Dominion this year was at Dargaville and Gisborne on January I—Bo degrees.—(P.A.). Gas From Oil Households and industry in Hastings were yesterday supplied with gas made completely from oil. It is the only town in the Southern Hemisphere using gas from oil. Under this new method of manufacture, gas for household use is made from crude oil instead of by carbonising coal. The gas-from-oil plant has been producing since December 18, but as a precaution it has been operated in conjunction with the coal-gas plant, and a mixture of the two types of gas has been fed into the mains.—(P.A.)