General News

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28822, 17 February 1959, Page 12

General News

Oysters Tomorrow

The first of the season's oysters are expected in Christchurch tomorrow morning. After hearing that the boats would sail for the oyster beds in the early hours of this morning, a Christchurch company sent a vehicle racing to Bluff last night. Since the season began on Sunday no oyster boats had left Bluff harbour because of a pay dispute between oystermen and merchants. An agreement has now been reached. It is expected that on arrival in Christchurch the, oysters will be a little dearer than they were last season. Borer Problem Evidence- of borer in the new hall of the Avonside Girls’ High School was reported by the headmistress (Miss V. Townsend) at a meeting of the school’s board of governors last evening. The secretary (Mr p. J, Halligan) said that he believed the borer to be of a type which ran four year cycles and offered the hope that in such circumstances “it would eat its way out and so solve .the problem.” The problem will be investigated by the board. Damp Wool A truck carrying bales of wool to Lyttelton had an unfortunate mishap yesterday morning. As it was making a turn .past Shag Rock on the Sumner road a rope snapped, and two bales fell into the water. They were recovered without much difficulty, undamaged, except for being slightly damp. Handicap "Perhaps the ultimate criterion from a community point of view to apply to the planning of our transport facilities is that of minimising its total transport bill. It is of course difficult, well nigh impossible, to apply this ab initio to a whole nation. It should be the aim, but traditions, vested interest, personal desires leave little scope tor an all-embracing plan except in totalitarian countries.”—Professor W. R. Blunden, professor of traffic engineering at the University of New South Wales, in an address last evening.

Cook Strait Swim Because he had been unable to arrange a sponsor for a launch toi accompany him, A- W. Clarke, of Auckland, could not -proceed with his plan to swim across Cook Strait from Tory Channel yesterday morning. He hoped to arrange a sponsor yesterday, and said he would start his swim at 6 a.m. today, Mr L M. Kenny, of Picton, is preparing a launch to accompany Clarke should the swim take place.—(P.A.) Work 7 Stopped The Ministry of Works has discontinued operations on the high school site on the corner of Burnside and Greers roads. Residents in the area have put up with the dust nuisance from road operations for months, but when the school site was being levelled yesterday morning, a number of them complained. It. was undoubtedly a nuisance, and there was no chance of Using water so the job was stopped, a Ministry of Works spokesman said yesterday. But since the site would have to be sown by the middle of April, residents would just have to hope for rain in the near future.