General News

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29130, 16 February 1960, Page 14

General News

Vanished - The vanishing tea parties for the town hall fund have now apparently vanished. The chair- ? man (Mr C. S. Martin) told Town Hall Promotion that these parties could go on for ever but it seemed that the present series had lapsed. Receipts for the fund totalled £42o—meaning that 3 well over 1000 women had taken ;, Part. Surf Collection ■f In its recent street day appeal, ' the Canterbury Surf Life Sav- " ing Association collected £614. ? according to the association sec--1 retary (Mr M. B. Restall) yesterday. The association has de--5 cided to grant £9O to each of ' the six Canterbury surf clubs’ i trust accounts, and the balance will go into the association’s " funds. T Uniform Temperatures It was a day of warm, unif form temperatures yesterday. [• There were almost 19 hours of heat in the seventies. It rose to this point at 1 a.m. and it f was only after 8 p.m. that it 5 dropped out of the seventies, j Maximum temperature at the weather office at Christchurch 1 airport was reached at 11 a.m. : when 78 degrees was recorded. > New Zealand’s Fishing ' One of the best known fea- [ tures of New Zealand in America is trout fishing, according to • the retiring Government travel ■ commissioner in San Francisco, Mr R. M. Firth. “Often Ameri- ’ cans may not be aware of other ’ features of our life but they are i quite convinced New Zealand is [ the ideal country for fishing,” he said in Christchurch yesterday. 1 “They are usually amazed when we tell them of the size of the . fish. There is a steady traffic of ardent anglers to New Zealand ' —people who have made several trips and who have picked out ; their own spots.” Lemons Rotting New Zealand-grown lemons are rotting in Christchurch markets because there is no demand for them. A small quantity of new season’s hothouse grapes sold yesterday from 3s 6d to 5s 9d a pound. Pears are now appearing on the market and selling at a fixed price of 20s to 25s a case. Electra Runs Late A delay to the T.E.A.L. Electra aircraft which should have left Christchurch for Melbourne on Sunday night has meant a rearrangement of traffic. The aircraft which was to have arrived from Melbourne at 6.30 p.m. yesterday flew in at 11.30 p.m. This plane which should have left the city for Sydney at 8 p.m. will now leave at 1 p.m. today. There is no change in the running of the aircraft from Sydney due at Christchurch at 6.30 p.m. today and which will return at 8 p.m. Road Tunnel Case The Christchurch - Lyttelton Road Tunnel Authority will meet this afternoon to receive formally the Local Authorities’ Loans Board letter on its loan application. The meeting will probably consider the representations to be made to the Minister of Finance (Mr Nordmeyer) tomorrow for some means of covering possible deficits in the tunnel’s early years of operation. Tenders For Stadium Tenders are now being called by the Christchurch City Council for the erection of the indoor sports stadium at Cuthbert’s Green, Bromley. There will be a clear area of 150 ft by 120 ft. Although no completion date is specified, it is hoped that the building will be ready for use some time in the coming winter. Tenders close on March 11. Handbag Recovered On New Year’s Day, Mrs M. Bibby, of Gloucester street, Christchurch, dropped her handbag from a boat in Pearl Harbour, Lake Manapouri. This week she recovered it. A skin diver had found the bag on the bottom in 55 feet of water 400 yards from the shore. The contents were ( wet and a lipstick was spoiled, but £8 in money and a jar of face cream were in good condition. Soil Survey A comprehensive soil survey of the central Bay of Plenty district is to be undertaken by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr W. A. Pullar, of the Department’s Soil Bureau, estimates that his survey will take five to six years. The survey is aimed at finding out the best possible use of the soil. Mr Pullar expects to start his survey at the Rangitaiki river. He will first cover the Rangitaiki plains, between Whakatane, Matata, and Kawerau. Then he will survey the soil between Whakatane and Opotiki, including the hill country.— (P.A.) Inspection Of Livers There was no truth in an allegation that hydatids cysts were cut from livers and the livers then sold for local consumption, said the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Skinner) last night, commenting on a recent report. The Minister said that livers were inspected to the same standard for local consumption as for export, and no hydatids cysts were permitted to be cut out of livers intended for human consumption. “All livers are given a thorough examination, and beef livers are in addition sliced to ensure that no deep-seated cysts are missed,” said Mr Skinner. “A liver showing any , sign of a hydatids cyst is im- , mediately rejected for human j consumption.”—(P.A.) ( Central Banking i A central bank should from 1 time to time dare to be unpopular, said the Governor of the Reserve Bank (Mr E. C. Fussell) in a luncheon address to the Welling- ‘ ton Rotary Club yesterday. “A ' central banker who enjoys saying j ‘Now’ would be a public nuisance,” , he added. "But one who says 1 ‘Yes’ against his better judgment because he is afraid to say ‘No’ I is a public menace. Such a banker 5 would find in the end that nobody ‘ loves a bank that goes bust ’ through being too nice.” In cen- 1 tral banking, as in many other J walks of life, the most important J quality was courage. “If you ! haven’t got courage none of your J other good qualities is in safe J keeping," he said. —(P.A.) . 1