General News

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28979, 21 August 1959, Page 12

General News

Yesterday’s Frost Christchurch people were reminded that winter was still (here yesterday morning with a Ifrost of 7.0 degrees at the Christchurch Airport and 7.6 degrees at ■the Botanic Gardens. The frost ;was accompanied by a low fog. 'which dispersed about 8 a.m. On l August 13 there was a frost of 9.2 [degrees. Spring Vegetables I Prices for spring vegetables, low on Monday and Tuesday, rose with increased demand on city produce markets yesterday. Lettuces, 1 market garden and glasshouse grown, made from 10s to 17s a dozen; and cabbages and cauliflowers from 12s to 20s a case. (New potatoes, sold last week foils Id per lb. were sold for lOd per lb yesterday. Archaeological Survey ■ The complete survey of archaeological sites in Canterbury and Westland, which is to be centred in the Canterbury Museum, will benefit from the National Historic Places Trust gifts of a full set of inch-to-the-imile maps of the area and a steel ! filing cabinet in which to keep records. The Whole Truth An eight-year-old boy about to give evidence in an assault case at Huddersfield Court was asked if he knew what it meant to take joath on the Bible. He replied: “Yes, it means if you swear to tell the truth and then tell lies I people will believe you."—London, jAugust 19. Hospital Tours About 3750 persons had been taken on conducted tours of the new Princess Margaret Hospital in five days when the last tour ended last evening. Included in that number were 800 who visited the hospital yesterday. The tour groups were still capacity parties, said the hospital’s chief administrative officei •Mr T. M McGuigan I yesterday He expressed his admiration for the assistance of orderlies who manned the lifts and inspection points, the nursing sisters who had been relieving both the I guides and the orderlies, and the dietitians preparing meals for those working at night. Thief Drinks Beer A thief who broke into Nelson Fisheries, Ltd’s cool store and depot. Nelson, on Wednesdaj night was a “cool customer.” Ap- ■ parently finding his safe-break-ing work tiring, he opened a bottle of beer and drank about a third of it before he left the premises with £43 in his possession. The thief got into the build ing by cutting a hole through a wall on the seaward side, went, through to a storeroom and manhandled the safe to the middle of the floor, where he chopped it [open with a sharp instrument The intruder removed all the cheques from the safe and hune them in a neat bundle from a clip on the wall and made ofl [with the cash.— (P.A.) I Mobile X-ray Unit Two hundred and thirty-two persons were X-rayed yesterday by the Health Department's mobile chest X-ray unit. 34 in the morning when the unit was at the corner of Bowhill road and Marriotts road, and 198 in the' afternoon when the unit was at [ the corner of Seaview road and Union street. The unit will be at the corner of Seaview road and Union street today and tomorrow. Crippled Children Fund A gift of £3OOO to form the nucleus of a fund to establish headquarters for the Crippled Children Society in Invercargill has been made by Mr John Gilmore. of Queenstown. A former Invercargill optician, now retired. Mr Gilmore gave £3750 in 1956 to enable the society to purchase a holiday home for cripples in Queenstown. —(P.A.)