General News

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29154, 15 March 1960, Page 18

General News

Girls Cooking

Avonside Girls’ High School pupils recently undertook to make large quantities of cakes and sweets for the town hall fair and now they have increased the quantity offered. Girls of Villa Maria and Sacred Heart Convents and of the Riccarton and Linwood High Schools have now also promised big gifts of cakes and sweets. Among the contrasting gifts for the fair made yesterday were a rotary clothes line and a big quantity of garden furniture. Uglis Arrive A shipment of 115 cases of Jamaican ugli fruit, the first for several years, arrived at Lyttelton in the Hertford on Saturday. The Uglis sold at 40s to 67s a case in the Christchurch produce markets yesterday. Two thousand five hundred cartons of Californian lemons for distribution in Christchurch arrived at Lyttelton in the Argentinean Reefer on Friday. The lemons sold at 50s a carton. Army Recruiting Nearly 60 applications to join the Army were made as a result of recruiting displays at the New Zealand Industries Fair in Christchurch during the last two weeks. “And more are coming,” the South Island recruiter (Major J. R. Spence) said yesterday. Major Spence said that so far there had been 47 applications from youths to join the Territorial Force and nine applications for the Regular Army. The latter included applicants as Regular Force cadets.

U.S. Food Surpluses The United States is rapidly reaching a "shortage of surpluses,” Professor E. Kingman Eberhart, professor of economics at Wooster College, Ohio, told the Wellington Rotary Club yesterday. Latest figures showed that the Government was holding only the equivalent of 2 per cent, of a year’s production of oats. 5J per cent of soya beans, 9.2 per cent of cotton, and 26 per cent, of corn. If the entire wheat crop failed the United States Government would be able to supply sufficient for only seven months’ consumption. Specially interesting for New Zealand were the figures for dairy production—a surplus sufficient only to operate the official school lunch programme—(P.A.) R.S.A. Building The Christchurch Returned Services’ Association hoped to be occupying its new building in Gloucester street by January, 1961, the president- (Mr A. S. Farrar) reported to a meeting of the association’s executive committee last evening Test bores would be made in the lawn in front of the existing premises soon, he said. School Fire Drill A standard system of signals throughout New Zealand to initiate fire and earthquake drills is wanted by the Federation of School Committees’ Association Two whistle blasts for fire drill and three blasts for earthquake drill were suggested. The federation’s annual conference yesterday unanimously carried a North Taranaki remit urging a standard system of signifir The remit added that local fire officers be empowered also to check the efficiency of a school’s drill at any time with the permission of the head teachers.—(P.A.) New Role For Karamu A “Jack of all trades” freighter, the Union Steam Ship Company’s Karamu is being fitted out at Auckland to carry refrigerated foodstuffs when the 11,037-ton passenger-cargo liner Monowai is taken off the intercolonial run. The Karamu. of 1988 tons, was built seven years ago In her time she has carried everything from .Fijian bananas to coal on the New Zealand coast. New Zealand fish for Australia is expected to comprise the bulk of the export cargoes —(P.A.)

School Working Bera The Education Department has now arranged for cover under the Workers’ Compensation Act of all volunteers manually working on the improvement of school buildings or grounds. The projects must be under the control of the school committee. This arrangement does not cover helpers at fairs or concerts. Auckland Skyscraper The proposed 23-storey Ker-ridge-Odeon skyscraper has been approved in principle by Auckland City Council town planners. Meetings between council officers and the Kerridge organisation are expected to overcome difficulties involved in the erection in Queen street of the 260foot building, which would be the tallest in New Zealand. The council’s officers, it is understood, feel the building should be set back from the street frontage to avoid pedestrian congestion. Parking is another problem.

Sooner The Better The Linwood High School Board will welcome visits by officers of the Labour Department to advise and educate pupils on safety techniques in the school workshops. The chairman (Mr K A. Gough) said early inculcation practices was wise, id ' taste.” * 'frickfings. “ --MhHBBI Religious Television The director of religious telecasting to the Australian Broadcasting Commission (the Rev. Dr. J Munro) said in Wellington yesterday that television programmes should be arranged to reflect the core of the church’s life, its existence and its traditions. Religious programmes telecast by the four Australian stations were run according to a roster on a proportionate basis. Everything from high masses to beach Services was P rodu ced.— Book Imports The Associated Booksellers of New Zealand, in conference at Wairakei, reaffirmed its policy of book import freedom. The association unanimously resolved also that it could not agree that any Zealand department of State should have the power to Stop citizens of the Dominion from obtaining books that were freely available to other British citizens.