General News

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28514, 18 February 1958, Page 12

General News

No Bridge Parking

Parking will now be prohibited on all bridges and their approaches in Christchurch. The prohibition, last December, of parking on bridges which did not have the full width of 46ft had left the Victoria, Colombo, and Hereford street bridges available, the traffic committee reported to the City Council last evening. The committee had now decided that parking on these bridges also tended to obstruct the free flow of traffic, and a total prohibition of parking on all bridges and approaches was recommended. N.Z .Wallaby For U.S. A wallaby, “Hone Heke,” will arrive on the campus of the University of Missouri on Saturday. He was captured on Kawau Island as a baby in the pouch early in December. Mr P. Harkness, a student at the university, whose home is in Hamilton, wrote to friends in Auckland telling them that his campus colleagues wanted a wallaby for a mascot. The wallaby will leave Auckland in a special cage on a Pan American Airways plane today. Since his capture on Kawau by two boys who live on the island the wallaby has been weaned and trained at the Auckland Zoo.—(P.A.) Parking Meters The east side of the triangular plot in Oxford terrace, opposite the Pioneer Sports Club, is to have parking meters. The traffic committee’s recommendation that 60-minute meters be installed in this section was approved by the City Council last evening. Unwelcome Visitors Pin-head sized bugs have been biting cargo workers in No. 3 hold of the Swedish freighter, Wangaratta at King’s Wharf, Auckland. “They are like little red fleas and are very irritating,” a worker said yesterday. The bugs are coming from cardboard cartons of cork. The Wangaratta loaded at Scandinavian and European ports. The cork is a product of Portugal, and is used for refrigeration insulation. Some has already been unloaded and stored in a wharf shed. A port health officer said that he would investigate.—(P.A.) Zoning Near Airport The Minister in charge of Civil Aviation (Mr Mathison), who is still a member of the Christchurch City Council, will receive a deputation from a joint committee of the City Council and the Waimairi County Council tomorrow after noon to discuss the zoning of land near Christchurch airport. Rammed A motorist who parked his car on a farm at Elaine Bay on the new French Pass road had his vehicle attacked by a ram. Mr S. Middleton, of Nelson, and his wife and family were picnicking at the bay during the week-end, and were fishing when they were told that* the ram was attacking the car. Apparently the ram resented its reflection in the door panel. No major damage was done to the car.—(PA.) Centennial Pool Parking The baths committee of the City Council has reaffirmed its decision not to provide off-street' parking on the vacant lot on the Oxford terrace frontage of the Centennial Pool. A fence will be erected along the boundary; but the area will be available for bicycles when large school parties or other organised groups visit the pool. It was stated that the cost of providing off-street parking for 15 to 20 cars would outweigh any benefits and, in any case, it was hoped that development of the, baths would not be long delayed. Old Building Wellington’s oldest building is to be demolished. After serving the community as a customs house and then a counting-house for 115 years, the old slate-roofed premises in what , used to be Customhouse Street, latterly Bethune and Hunter’s Exchange Buildings, are to be demolished when the lease of the last tenant expires in two months. The old building has been a landmark in Wellington, nestling among modern buildings. At one time it had a frontage to the beach before reclamation. The Historic Places Trust has taken considerable interest in the old building, which over recent years has shown the ravages of time to such an extent that preservation would not be practicable. —(P.A.)

Big Groper A diver working in the beached war-time transport, Kinegawa Maru, at Guadalcanal, is reported to have killed a 4001 b groper which was swimming inside the flooded hull with him. The official news-sheet of the Solomon Islands Protectorate reported that the groper was too big to escape through the hole in the vessel’s hull. It is believed that the fish got inside the ship as a small fish and stayed there until it was trapped by its own size. The Kinegawa Maru is lyins in deep water at the western end of Guadalcanal, and is being broken up for scrap. Divers have been working inside the flooded hull for several weeks, but the groper was not sighted until recently, when a diver saw it and killed it with an iron bar. —(P.A.) “German-Made” Several floats in the carnival at Bad Gddesburg, near Bonn, in West Germany, featured sputniks —but the one which raised the biggest laughs had two, one American and one Russian, and both marked “Made by Germans.”— Bonn, Feb. 17. Easter Day Films The Christchurch City Council has granted the Christchurch Motor Club’s road safety committee permission to screen road safety and educational films in the Repertory Theatre on the evening of Sunday, April 6 (Easter Day).

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