General News

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29177, 11 April 1960, Page 14

General News

Fair Raises £2300 The sum of £2300 was raised at a fair held by the Cashmere. High School Parent-Teachers Association at the school on Saturday afternoon, the profit of more than £2OOO will be used partly to furnish the assembly hall, and partly to build a diving pool beside the present swimming baths. Between 7000 and 8000 persons attended the fair. Agadir Children’s Fund A total of £ll6O had been collected for victims of the Agadir earthquake by the Christchurch branch of the Save the Children Fund, said the president of the branch (Miss M. G. Havelaar) last night. She said that individually and collectively the children of Christchurch had done splendidly with their effort. By airmail letter last week, Miss Havelaar said, she had been informed that as a result of the earthquake there were 400 children between the ages of two and six years without parents or relatives in Agadir. -To cope with the children on behalf of the Save the Children Fund there were an English doctor and nurse ana two French social workers, said Miss Havelaar. Her Weight In Toffees To receive ones weight in toffees must be the dream of all children. This dream became a reality for a 16-year-old Dunedin girl, Frances Glover, on Saturday. She attended a fair at Opoho to enter a nephew in a baby contest. Along with many others she was handed a number of cards each bearing a number. At the draw, Frances was the holder of the winning ticket so she had to sit on some scales while she was balanced against 81b bags of toffees. . It took 17 bags to equal her weight. These were later delivered to her home by a retinue of clowns. Frances’s 11 brothers and sister shared in her lucky win.—(P.A.) Definition A definition of Auckland—“a series of villages linked together by a poor transport system.”— The Secretary of Industries and Commerce (Dr. W. B. Sutch) speaking at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Valuers’ Institute. Cat Flies To Britain A black and white cat, provided with three tins of cat food and housed in a special box, took off from Whenuapai on Saturday night in a T.E.A.L. aircraft en route for London. Named “Pussy” by its owner. Miss Leslie Cox, of Wellington, the cat will be quarantined for six months after arrival in Britain. It is believed to be the first cat to make the air trip from Wellington to London. The one-way fare for her pet will cost Miss Cox more than £lB. Once it is free of quarantine, Miss Cox will take the cat to Cranford, Middlesex. —(PA.) Gift For Princess Thq gift of the Ist Battalion. Northland Regiment to its Colonel-in-Chief, . Princess Margaret, for her marriage to Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones is a delicately-fashioned and highlypolished cigarette box made from the highest grade New Zealand timbers. Shaped in the style of a period casket on cabriole legs, the box has panels of birdseye totara, curly kauri, and totara with swamp-cured black maire beading and legs. The regiment’s badge and a silver inscription plate are placed on the inside of the lid. Rose-hip Season Mothers of young babies should find no shortage of rose-hip syrup this year, It has been a good season for rose hips in Central Otago and the Waitaki Valley. The season for casual rose-hip pickers has also been good. In the last two months women, children and week-end pickers have received more than “pin money” for their arduous collection of berries along the roadsides .and across the farms of Otago. “Overdid It” Unsweet odours penetrated the board room of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board while the board was in session recently. They came from sulphuretted hydrogen—the delight of every schoolboy science pupil During the afternoon, tests had been carried out by the board’s laboratory staff on rapid corrosion of plastics, to determine the effects of sewage. “But we overdid it.” said the board’s chief chemist, Mr R. Hicks. "They turned everything black. And the smell is still lingering here this morning.”