General News

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 12

General News

Not Yet “Have we had a letter from the Pilgrims’ and Early Settlers* Association about the road through Hagley Park? All the other sports bodies seem to have,’’ said Mr D. C. Morse at the Canterbury Mountaineering Club’s annual meeting last evening. “No. But I am expecting a letter any day,” was the reply from the president (Mr J. F. Hayes). Crowd Control When the chairman of the Victory Park Board (Mr W. C. Dailey) said that the board’s consulting engineer (Mr C. W. Hamann) would be inspecting sports grounds while in Australia, England, and Scotland, to see how crowds were controlled, another member (Mr G. H. Christie) had an answer: “Mr Hamann should go to China and note how they control their Formosan force. We’ll have 70,000, but they have 40,000,000.”

Dusting Sheep The 11-year-old son of a farmer developed a skin rash, and a doctor said it was probably due to the insecticide used for dusting sheep, said a member of the provincial executive of North Canterbury Federated Farmers at an executive meeting yesterday. The doctor had had several similar cases, and considered that, because of the dry Reason, the particles were in the air. “It’s a thing that has to be watched. It might lead to worse things.” said the farmer. Australian Skiers In order to see as much of New Zealand as possible during their visit, several members of the Australian national ski team will visit the South Island this week. The inter-Dominion contest against New Zealand concluded on Monday, and part of the team is booked to leave Harewood for Melbourne on Sunday. Those coming south will spend two days at Coronet Peak, Queenstown, and will see Klilford Sound and the Southern Alps by chartered aircraft.

Mayor Buys Locomotive The Mayor of Taumarunul (Mr F. D. House) has bought the locomotive that pulled the first train over the Main Trunk line with a Parliamentary party from’ Wellington to Auckland. At a meeting of the Porough Council he said he hoped the council would accept the locomotive as a gift from him on behalf of the community* The council accepted the gift and decided to place it in a suitable position as a historical memento. Fortnightly Pay Fortnightly payment of teachers instead of monthly is likely within a year, according to the president of the New Zealand Educational Institute (Mr D. R. Blyth). The Minister of Education has approved the idea in principle, and it has the support of the Education Boards’ Association, the Secondary School Boards’ Association, and the Technical Education Association. Several Education Department officials are now . working full-time on arrangements. Free Firewood Wanganui people may soon be able to pick up all the firewood they want, neatly sawn into small blocks, and entirely free, from the beach. After inspecting the driftwoOd-littered beach, the Mayor, Mr Millward, said he thought something should be done to clean it up. He hopes to see chainsaws used to reduce the wood to small blocks. Derailment

A shunting error caused a derailment at the Kirwee station about 8 p m. last evening and delayed the rail-car from the West Coast. Waggons in a goods train were derailed and blocked the main line. Passengers on the railcar, which usually reaches Christchurch at 11.05 p.m., were transferred to a New Zealand Road Services bus and arrived at Christchurch at 11.25 p.m. A Railways Department spokesman said a gang was working at Kirwee and it was expected that the line would be clear by 1 a.m. today.