General News

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29082, 19 December 1959, Page 12

General News

Unwelcome Encounter A new member of the City Council, Cr. J. R. Smith, saw something of the council’s outside activities yesterday in a brief but unwelcome encounter with a tar-spraying truck. Cr. Smith’d car was splashed by creosote from the tar truck, although there was no collision. His car was taken to a council yard and cleaned. “This is something that happens perhaps three or four times a year—to other motorists as well as a councillor—and we clean the car, which is comparatively easy,” said an engineer. “Accidents will happen.” Socks For Amputees The Minister of Health (Mr Mason) announced yesterday that civilian amputees will in future be given a free issue of two stump socks for each amputated limb each year. Previously, only war amputees received free supplies of these socks, and civilian amputees had to buy their own replacements when they had exhausted their original subsidised supply of 12 socks. —(P.A.) Cable Completed Th? Wellington - Palmerston North coaxial cable, a link in a scheme to augment the North Island communication route was joined at Te Horo on Thursday. The Postmaster-General (Mr Moohan) screwed up the last bolt in the covering case surrounding the last joint of the composite cable.—(P.A.) Milk Samples One sample of milk, and two samples of cream taken during October, did not comply with the regulation standard, it was reported by the Health Department at yesterday’s meeting of the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board. No action was taken by the department. Legal Aid A list of solicitors remaining in Christchurch during the legal holiday will be made available at the Christchurch Central Police Station for the benefit of persons requiring urgent legal aid, the president of the Canterbury District Law Society (Mr E. B. E. Taylor) said yesterday. “Touch Of Home” The United States Ambassador (Mr Francis H. Russell) has received a box of New Zealandgrown blueberries as a gift. They came from the superintendent of the Rukuhia Soil Research Station at Hamilton. Mr Russell said last night that the blueberries —the first he had heard of in New Zealand—were a “real touch of home.” They would be made into a real American blueberry pie. (P.A.) Witness For Prosecution When a farmer, Claude Grimwood, of Wethersfield, Essex, was fined £5 for illegally setting traps for foxes it was said that one trap caught the village policeman, who had to wait for help before he was able to get free.—London, December 18. Fishing Rivers The condition of fishing rivers at 9 a.m. yesterday as reported by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society was: Waiau, dirty; Hurunui, milky but clearing; Ashley, discoloured; Waimakariri at mouth and at Woodstock, discoloured; Selwyn at mouth, clear and fishable: Halswell at Greenpark, clear and fishable but subject to catchment board operations; Rakaia at the gorge, dirty.