General News

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29189, 27 April 1960, Page 16

General News

Sherry Down Drains

About 150 gallons of Australian light sherry flowed along the railway lines into the gutters and down drains in Quay street, Auckland, about 9 a.m. yesterday. Three hogsheads, 50 gallons in each, rolled off a truck when a rope slipped. Bubbling and glinting pale red in the sunshine, the wine poured out. One or two eyewitnesses rushed into the area with tin cups and milk bottles, saving and sampling some of the sherry as it drained out of one of the hogsheads. The driver of the truck, Mr B. Simeon, and an assistant swept the sherry away in a flood towards the drains.— (P.A.)

Week-End Road Deaths

With nine deaths and many persons injured on the roads last week-end was one of the worst for some time, worse than the Christmas-New Year peak and close to the 11 deaths of the Easter week-end. Anzac Day was clear of fatal accidents, as was Easter Monday All the deaths occurred in the hours from late afternoon to early Sunday morning, and six of the deaths were a result of vehicles leaving the road, striking poles or bridge ends, or overturning.—(P.A.) Wedding Present It would be onlv a matter of days before the final design of New Zealand’s wedding gift to Princess Margaret was settled, the Acting-Prime Minister (Mr Skinner) said last night. He added that the nature of the gift would be announced before the actual wedding date, though Princess Margaret would not receive the present till after her marriage.— (P.A.) Well Ahead “Now we come to a letter I am about to receive." said the Town Clerk of Riccarton (Mr R. Sarieant), last evening, as the council dealt with correspondence. “Strange to say, I have not yet got the letter, but I have a copy of it,” he said. Hornby High School The first official indication that the Christchurch Post-primary Schools’ Council is definitely interested in establishing a high school at Hornby came last evening in a resolution asking the Education Department to give urgency to examination of a site Members said other Hornby sites under consideration had been snapped up by other interests. Street Lights Street lighting improvements in Kauri and Rattray streets. Riccarton. are to be held over until the works and town hall committee of the Riccarton Borough Council has considered samples of equipment. The council, last evening, decided to ask the electrical engineer to obtain the samples. Aero Club Plane The Canterbury Aero Club’s new Piper Apache aircraft now on its delivery flight from Britain to Christchurch was due to reach Bahrein yesterday, according to cabled advice. An earlier cable confi-med the arrival of the plane at Neuchatel on Friday and the plane was to have stopned overnight at Kekyra on Saturday Third Assistant The University of Canterbury intends to appoint an assistant registrar whose duties will chiefly concern details of development and equipment of new buildings and maintenance of existing buildings and services. There are already assistant registrars in charge of academic matters and finance. Mushrooms Scarce A very small quantity of mushrooms was on sale in the fruit and vegetable markets yesterday at prices ranging from Is 6d to 3s fid a pound. The season is now ending. Chestnuts, some locally grown, and some from Nelson, were also on sale and selling at Is 3d. All vegetables were in very heavy supply and sold at low prices.