General News

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28513, 17 February 1958, Page 8

General News

Second Thoughts The hot sun was not responsible for the glow on the face of one man at Trentham on Saturday. Prizes were being presented to the successful competitors in the Wellington rifle-shooting championships. Mrs C. Matheson, of Dunedin, walked forward to receive her trophy for heading the B grade aggregate. A moment later a flustered official retrieved the parcel from Mrs Matheson, and muttered something about engraving a trophy. The same official will be in the 'city today changing a shiny new. shaving outfit for something more suitable. —(PA.) Resourcefulness The organisers of one of the floats in the floral procession on Saturday showed fine presence of mind on Friday. When it appeared likely that it would be raining on the day, they made at short notice a number of transparent plastic, sack-like capes which kept the children’s costumes dry but still allowed them to be clearly seen by the crowd of thousands. Club Seeks Charter The St. Albans-Shirley Working Men’s Club has applied to the Licensing Control Commission for the granting of a club charter. The premises of the club are at 285 Hills road, St. Albans. Any person wishing to be heard at the hearing of the application by the commission as to facilities in the area for social amenities, recreation or refreshment, or any other matter affecting the application, must notify the secretary of the commission at Wellington. Roxburgh’s Apricot Crop Consignments of fruit from New Zealand’s main apricot growing district, Roxburgh, reached a peak at the week-end. In four days 35,000 cases of fruit, mainly apricots, were sent from the Roxburgh railway station. If the weather stays fine the consignments will be even higher this week. Air freighting will assist in raising the figure. An N.A.C. DC-3 took 3J tons to Palmerston North and a Bristol Freighter took six tons to Stratford at the week-end. —(P. A.) Prince’s Mooloo The Queen Mother has told Prince Charles in a letter about a special gift for him from a ‘‘Hamilton Rugby Union team,” says a message from Canberra. “The Hamilton Rugby team gave the Queen Mother a tiny, golden sacred cow, with a bell around its neck, before she left New Zealand. The sacred cow is the mascot of the Hamilton Rugby team.” The Queen Mother told Prince Charles about the gift on Saturday when she spent much time writing letters to the Queen, Princess Margaret, and her grandchildren, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, says the message. Bakers’ Conference The subject of general baking of bread on Saturdays is expected to be a major topic for discussion when the New Zealand Federation of Bakers and Pastrycooks holds its. annual conference in Auckland this week. This discussion will come up on Friday during an industrial agenda. Visitors from Australia and New Zealand will number 100, and they will be welcomed by the Mayor of Auckland (Mr K. N. Buttle) at a reception this evening. Business sessions will begin on Tuesday morning, when the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr Holloway) will open proceedings.—A.) Man For The Job To stop a racehorse, put 10s on it, cynical punters say. In Arney road, Remuera, residents could vary the old quip. ‘‘Put a copper on it,” they might say. The reason is that at 4 o’clock one morning this week Sergeant J,- Beasley, of the Newmarket police, mounted a runaway horse and rode it bareback for several miles from Arney road to the Epsom trotting stables. The horse was pounding up and down endangering traffic when two householders secured it, fed it carrots and telephoned the police. Sergeant Beasley arrived on the scene, and he was just the man for the job. Brought up on a farm, he once rode a buckjumper in a circus.

N.Z. Kitten For U.S. A Palmerston North cat fancier. Miss Dulcie Hore, has bred a pedigree kitten to be sent from New Zealand to the United States. It is a white Persian from pedigree English stock. Miss Hore has been breeding cats for a number of years, specialising in Persians. These include blacks, whites, blues, creams and blue-creams. The kitten may be taken to Australia and shown at the Royal Easter Show and others, before it is flown to America. 60 Years A Bowler A life membership badge was presented to Mr Gordon Hughan, aged 90, of Carterton, by the Carterton Bowling Club on Saturday. Mr Hughan has been a member of the club for 60 years. —(P.A.) Swimming Grandmother Wanganui’s “swimming grandmother,” Mrs I. Morrison, aged 61, fulfilled a life-long ambition yesterday when she completed a 10-mile swim down the Wanganui river. Entering the water at Sandy Hook, 10 miles from, the mouth of the river, Mrs Morrison swam steadily on to her goal, and three hours and a quarter later reached the mouth. —(P.A.) Confectionery In N.Z. Although the production of com fectionery in New Zealand was only three tons less, at 16.251 tons, in the year 1956-57 than' in the previous year, its value was more than £106.000 less, at £4.320.000. The drop, however, was more than balanced by a drop of more than £200,000 in the cost of materials, chiefly as a result of a reduction in the cost of cocoa beans. Imports of all types of confectionery for the first 10 months of 1957 were £281.000 compared with £271,000 fkr the whole of 1956.