General News

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28536, 15 March 1958, Page 12

General News

Street Appeal The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raised £450 /in its annual street appeal yesterday. This was nearly £5O less 'chan the amount collected last year. Two Alsatian dogs, which paraded in the streets around Cathedral square all day, collected £35 between them.

St. John Seals Urgent need of funds to improve and extend its wideranging free service for the public had induced the venerable order of St. John to plan a national Easter seal campaign for 1959, said the Chancellor (Sir William Appleton), in Wellington yesterday. He said the seals, symbolic of St. John service, would be supplied in sheets of 25 for 2s 6d for sticking on letters—(P.A.) Still Going Strong A 24-year-old tractor competed favourably with its modern counterparts at the Young Farmers’ Club farm machinery demonstration at Hoon Hay valley yesterday. The tractor—a four-wheel drive model—came off the vintage machinery lines late in the afternoon to draw a drill of modern design made by the same organisation to which it belongs. The tractor, which has been freshly painted and is in excellent condition for its years, was running quite sweetly and showed a good turn of speed. Sightseeing Special Passengers on Tasman Empire Airways’ flight yesterday, from Melbourne, flew over Invercargill, which is holding an aviation week, and then headed north over the lakes at a height of 14,000 ft. Captain F. D. Bethwaite. the pilot, said he was asked by the company to divert the plane if the weather was fine enough. “We really sold them on the scenic beauties of the South Island.” he said. After crossing from Melbourne to Invercargill in less than four hours the DC-6 took another hour and nine minutes to Christchurch, touching down at 3.6 p.m. New Dunedin Building A reinforced concrete building is to be constructed in Stuart street, Dunedin, for the South Island Motor Union Mutual Insurance Association.. Good progress is being made with the sketch plans, which are being prepared by a Dunedin firm of architects, Messrs Salmond and Burt. A number of plans are to be submitted to the board of directors of the association to ensure the elegance and functional suitability of the building, which is being designed for extensive additions. Waimakariri Fresh Until 7 p.m. no rain fell at Arthur's Pass yesterday, and although the Waimakariri river was in medium fresh yesterday morning it reached its peak before 10.30 a.m. At .1.30 a.m. yesterday the river had risen sft at the gorge. Between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursday 5.85 in of rain fell at Arthur’s Pass, and from then to 8 a.m. yesterday .02in was recorded.. Productive Dreaming ‘‘lt is time a fifth freedom was created,” said Mr A. R. Simm, chairman of the organising committee of the business efficiency exhibition, when he officially opened the office management conference at Wellington yesterday. Mr Simm said the fifth freedom should be freedom to dream. He thought younger executives should be encouraged to dream up new ideas, methods and techniques, and management in industry should incorporate many of the good “dreams” in their everyday policies.—(P.A.) Sailors’ Clubs Welfare work for overseas sailors, particularly in providing them with amenities for their hours on shore, needs much more effort in New Zealand, according to the Rev. R. W. Phillips, superintendent chaplain of the British Sailors’ Society in London. Mr Phillips will be in the country for the next two years to advise on the development and co-ordina-tion of the clubs provided by the society in the six main ports. These clubs would be modernised and extended, he said in Auckland. Rotorua Soundshell Tenders are now being called on behalf of the Rotorua 30,000 Club for the .building of a new soundshell near the present one on the lakefront. Estimated to cost £40,000, the soundshell will have tearooms on one side, dressing rooms and offices on the other and a theatre to seat about 870 at the rear. Fishing Rivers According to advice received yesterday from the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, the condition of the fishing rivers was as follows.—Ashley, clear and fishable; Halswell and Selwyn, clear and fishable, subject to Catchment Board operations; Lower Rakaia, Hurunui, Waiau, and Waimakariri, dirty and unfishable; Upper Rakaia. dirty and unfishable. The weather was finp. with a light north-west wind, at Lake Coleridge, and at Highbank there was rain.