General News

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28983, 26 August 1959, Page 12

General News

Thank You, Nurse A nurse who conducted a party from the Sydenham Residents’ Association on a tour of the new Princess Margaret Hospital at Cashmere impressed the party. At the association’s meeting last evening she was described as “the little lady who really made the afternoon,” and “our hostess” and also, according to one resident, “she was a little beauty.” The association will, send a letter of appreciation to the manager of the hospital for a “most enjoyable, informative and entertaining afternoon.” The tour had given them an insight on where their money had gone, a resident said. The Lion's Den “You sound like a lion champing at an early Christian,” Mr Justice Adams remarked when Mr R. W. Edgley, counsel for the plaintiff in the mower dispute, said he had not objected to a defence witness being brought back into the “arena.” “Or a gladiator,” suggested defence counsel, Mr R. A. Young. His Honour: “No, I think a gladiator would have baulked at an early Christian. Mr Young: Maybe my friend is just licking his loins, sir. It was the second day of Mr Edgley's final address in the 110day hearing. Police Dogs The Police Department has 11 fully-trained police dogs, three partly-trained, three breeding bitches and three pups, the Minister in charge of Police (Mr Connolly) told the House of Representatives last night. “Some of them are more intelligent than members in this House,” he said.—(P.A.) Californian Grapes Four thousand chests of red Malaga grapes, the first shipment for 20 years, will arrive in Lyttelton in the Indian Reefer on Saturday. The grapes are expected to be on the market on Monday. A consignment of island oranges is due at Lyttelton on Thursday in the Maui Pomare. Mobile X-Ray Unit Some 200 persons were Xrayed by the Department of Health's mobile chest X-ray unit when it was at the corner of Wainoni road and Beatty street yesterday The unit will be at the same place today until 9.30 a.m. It will then move to the corner of Wainoni road and Cuffs road, where it will operate between 10.15 and 11.45 am. From 12.30 p.m. to 4.15 p.m. the unit will be at the corner of Breezes and Pages roads.

Short Flight Doubts have been raised on whether the; National Airways Viscount aircraft can operate to peak economy on the comparatively short Christchurch-Wel-lington route, because they hardly attain operating altitude before descending. But the Mayor of Dunedin (Sir Leonard Wright) said in Christchurch yesterday on his return from overseas that he had been on a 7jmin flight in a Viscount in the United States. “We had just put. our belts off when we had to put them on again to land.” ne said There were ( 18 passengers aboard the 60seat plane and they flew between two “whistle stop" towns on a trip between Denver and Tulsa. A flight between Wellington and Christchurch in a Vis- ] count is scheduled to take 55 , minutes. , University Exchanges I Some university teachers and post-graduate students would need to learn Russian and in due course Chinese, if the New Zea- , land universities were to participate more widely and more j deeply in international exchange delegations, said Sir David Smith, : Chancellor of the University of ■ New Zealand, in an address to the Senate in Auckland yesterday “I doubt not that the intellectual and cultural exchanges that we shall be called upon to ' undertake in the years to come with the institutions of higher learning in the countries of the East as well as of the West will ' require effort and expense,” Sir David Smith said. “Nevertheless I ' am persuaded that these ex- ■ changes will widen our vision, j be of mutual benefit and in the long run of profound importance , to the country” Lottery Win To N.Z. First prize of £lO,OOO in a Vic- ! torian lottery drawn today went to a New Zealand ticketholder, “C.W.,” of Paerata (ticket num- s ber 13233).—Melbourne, Aug. 25. ,

John Reid, Giraffe Workmen have cut an 18-foot door in the giraffe ho.-_e at Auckland zoo in preparation for the arrival of John, a baby giraffe now at Regent’s Park Zoo, London. A senior Auckland zoo animalkeeper, Mr D. Secombe, left this week by air co join John, an 18-month-old baby now i about nine feet tall. Named after i John Reid, captain of the New 1 Zealand cricket team touring Britain when it was born, John was bought by the Auckland zoo for about £l2OO. Half Teachers Women mathematics and science probationary assistants, soon to graduate from the Ardmore Teachers’ College, will be regarded as being each only one half of a teacher, according to an Education Department circular read at the Christchurch Girls’ High School board meeting on Monday. The circular says that the new teachers will still be comparatively young and they would benefit from restricted classes and the guidance of experienced teachers. There are no probationary assistants at Girls’ High School yet. Wet Whangarei So tar this month there has been only one day on which rain was not recorded in Whangarei, and in the last 34 days there have been only two days without rain. For the 153 days on which rain has been recorded this year, the total is 52.32 in. The average annual figure in Whangarei is 64.17 in