General News

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29221, 3 June 1960, Page 10

General News

Problem Solved A “drunk and disorderly” prisoner enjoying a night’s free board and lodgings at the Masterton police station recently had his evening meal on an oblong metal dish handed through the barred opening in his cell door. When the time came to hand the empty dish back the prisoner’s condition was such that he tried to pass the dish by its wide side, some inches wider than the opening. He gazed at the dish for a few moments and then found a solution. He doubled the dish over across his knee and passed it out. The result was a slight increase in the monetary penalty imposed in the Magistrate’s Court the next day. |- ... And All That i The Lord Mayor of London (Sir Edmund Stockdale) last night made the kind of slip that every schoolboy fears. Addressing a dinner, given by the Corporation of London to celebrate the six hundredth anniversary of the Admiralty Court, he referred to the Battle of Hastings. ... In “100 ... ah ... 100.. Those present, including High Court and Commonwealth Judges and highranking naval officers, called out the correct date, 10S6.—London, June 12. Tagged £1 Notes Pound notes spent in Auckland by American tourists had been found 'by a “tagging” scheme to have i passed through six or seven 'hands within 10 days, and travelled hundreds of miles around the Auckland province, the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce council was told last evening. The chamber heard details of the “tagging” scheme in a letter from Mr J. R. Milne, assistant managing director of Milne and Choyce, Ltd., Auckland. About 100 "tagged” notes had been distributed with the arrival of every American tourist lindr. the letter said. Footballers At Ballet Members of the Canterbury Rugby team who took lessons in ballet exercises with the Borovansky Ballet this week have apparently become balletomanes. They attended a performance of “Sleeping Princess”' on Wednesday evening at the invitation of the company, and after the show presented Miss Peggy van Praagh, artistic director of the company, with a pair of paua earrings—a memento of her first visit to Christchurch. Akaroa Cycle Race Because of road reconstruction work on the main highway near Hilltop, the Christchurch to Akaroa and return annual cycle race to be held by the Avon Amateur Cycling Club this Saturday and Monday has had to be re-routed. From the Hilltop, the new route is along the Summit Road to the junction with the Pigeon Bay | road, then turning sharp right down Pawson’s Valley road to Duvauchelle. The riders will then turn left and proceed along the main road to Akaroa Meat Price Changes Canterbury hogget and pork prices will be Id per. lb higher next week, but mutton will be Id per lb cheaper. There alterations ■are among the price changes notiified by the Price Tribunal in a | Gazette notice last evening. The i changes also apply to the Marlborough. Nelson and Westland meat pricing districts.—(P.A.) Fruit Shipments A shipment of Australian navel oranges is expected to be on sale in Christchurch produce markets on June 13. A further shipment of bananas from Samoa and Fiji is expected about June 20 and mandarins, tanaerines and grapefruit, from the Cook Islands, about June 27. Storm At Wanganui Water entered a number of premises and goods were damaged when a severe hail and rain storm passed ov'er Wanganui shortly after midday yesterday The storm, accompanied by a strong westerly wind, brought city traffic' to a standstill when windscreen wipers could not cope with the volume of water There were several flashes of lightning during the brief storm, the peals of thunder accompanying one of them being sufficient to shake houses— (PA.) Electronic Brains Electronic brains may be used to process New Zealand census data by 1966, the Government Statistician (Mr J. V. T. Baker) said yesterday. In the meantime, the Government was considering the purchase of punch card processing equipment to speed up the processing of the data.— (P.A.) Leave On Full Pay fhe Christchurch All Black, O J Graham, who was teaching at Christchurch Boys’ High School before his selection, will receive full pay while he is in South Africa. This information was received at a meeting of the school board yesterday in a Department of Education circular which, stated that married teachers on the tour would receive full pay and single teachers half pay from May 6 to September 9 Reversed Positions were reversed yesterday ai the hearing of applications b; the No 9 Transport Licensing Authority, when the new Authority Mr J S Haywood, who had been appointed by the Government, heard applications from Mr J A Bretherton Perviously Mr Bretherton had been the authority and Mr Haywood had appeared on behalf of applicants. During the hearings Mr Haywood complimented Mr Bretherton on his able presentation of evidence. Sassenachs Win Sasrenachs on the Dunedin City Council -had won out. the Mayor (Mr T K S Sidev) who confessed to some Scottish blood, told the United Kingdom High Commissioner in New Zealand 'Mr F E Cuming-Bruce) at a reception A suggestion to have a new tartan-design carpet for the Town Hall was defeated in favour of a “compromise” blue and gold (Otago’s colours).