General News

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28937, 3 July 1959, Page 10

General News

On Ice An ambftionto skate on natural ice was realised by Miss Noreen Caulder, of Melbourne, the Alexandra Winter Sports Club’s professional coach, when she skated on the Manorburn dam recently. Miss Caulder is one of the most highly qualified professional skating coaches to come to New Zealand, but all her previous skating has been on arti-ficially-frozen rinks. Miss Caulder admitted that she had to

overcome her instinctive qualms when the ice on the dam cracked, although she knew it was a sign of top-class ice. Easy Jury Service A Supreme Court jury was empanelled yesterday and then dismissed without hearing a word of evidence after - it was announced that the case it was to hear had been settled out of Court The jury wag empanelled at 10 am. before the resumption of the hearing of an accident damages claim, for £22,500, as it was thought this latter case would be completed at 3 p.m. However, at 3.30 p.m., before the Judge had summed up, the Registrar annouced that the next case hgd been settled, and the waiting jurors were dismissed with a request to “call at the office on the way out” for their fees. Harbour Bridge Accident The first reported accident involving injury on the Auckland Harbour Bridge occurred on Wednesday about 8 a.m. Petrie Lubbock, aged 21, of H.M.N.Z.S. Philomel, suffered serious spinal injuries when the motor-cycle he was riding and a bus collided on the southern side of the bridge. Visit To Airport Members of the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce will visit Christchurch Airport next Tuesday afternoon at the mvitation of Cr. A R. Guthrey, chairman of the Christchurch City Council’s airport committee. The time had come when members of the chamber should get to know what development had taken place at the airport and what was planned for the future, said the president (Mr J. Roy Smith). Profit A sewing machine bought more than 40 years ago from an Auckland company, realised £5 when it was sold a few years ago, a shareholder, Mr J. Russell, said at the annual meeting of the company recently. “You made a profit on it because you paid only £4 19s for it,” interjected Mr R. A. Laidlaw, who founded the company and is now a member of the board of directors. Mi Laidlaw added that a similar machine, still in good running order, had been lent to the company to display during its jubilee celebrations. Mr Russell also produced a silver teaspoon—one of half a dozen given away free by the company in its early years with every order exceeding £lO.

Surplus Of Hops Hoty valued at about £53,000 are stored in Nelson without a Market .They are; the surplus of this season’s crop, and represent more than a fifth of: the year’s total production of 3600 bales. A deputation of members of the hop marketing committee, led by the chairman, Mr B T. Rowling, of Motueka, will wait on the Prime Minister (Mr'Nash* in Wellington today to discuss the question of disposal of the hops—(PA_) Late For Licences Stragglers were still getting into line at the Christchurch City Council traffic department counter m the City Council offices yesterday to renew their driving licence-, but late in the afternoon there were still 11,000 persons round Christchurch with expired licences. This year there was more time for renewing licences, but few took advantage of it. Renewals began on May 11, but it was not until June 25 that 1000 licences were renewed in one day. June 30 was the busiest day with 1547 renewals.

Big Game Fishing Anglers caught 426 big game fish in Bay of Islands and Whangarei waters in the season which ended on Tuesday. Included were two New Zealand record catches, a 2421 b make shark caught on a 401 b breaking strain line by J. R. Price, of Whangarei, and a 3861 b mako shark caught on an 801 b breaking strain line by Mrs M. W. Young, of Southland. The Winner of the Norrie Gould Cup, for a 4171 b striped marlin was G. Maunsell. of Mauntataiiere.-MP.A.)