General News

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29246, 2 July 1960, Page 12

General News

Leave Conditions The request by Mr J. G. Johnston for leave of absence from the Christchurch Technical College Board of Managers to travel to Borneo, Hong Kong, and-Man-ila was greeted in various ways by the board last evening. The Mayor (MfG. Manning) asked him if he was going -to Peking. The chairman (Mr R. Jones) asked him to bring back, a transistor radio. and the board granted him leave of absence. £250 For Lifeboat A grant of £250 from the Art Union fund had been made to the Sumner Lifeboat Institute by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Anderton), said Mr N. E. Kirk, M.P„ yesterday. The grant had been made for the survey and operation of the Sumner Lifeboat and as a donation to help local fund raising, Mr Kirk said, Abattoir Award Conciliation proceedings for a new Christchurch abattoirs award have been held on several days during the last 18 months. After yesterday’s sitting, it was reported that a complete settlement still had not been reached, and the Conciliation Commissioner <Mr S. W. Armstrong) said he hoped the matter might be completed some time next week.: Power Birds Nesting magpies twice caused a loss of supply on the Roxburgh-Islington power line, says the annual report of the New Zealand Electricity Department. Birds caused trouble on other power lines, says the report. The WaitakiGlenavy line had two faults, which appreciably damaged insulators, caused by ■■ birds. The Banks Peninsula supply was interrupted 14 times by swans from Lake Ellesmere flying into the Islington-Motukarara line. Support For Pulp Mill The North Canterbury -Catchment Board has decided to support the proposed establishment of a pulp and paper mill in Canterbury. A motion to this effect, proposed by Mr C. S Ayers, and seconded by Dr G. Jobberns. was. after brief discussion, carried with only one dissentient at yesterday’s board meeting. Unlikely Hydatids had been known since about 700 8.C., Mr A. Fischman told the annual conference of the New Zealand Association of Bacteriologists yesterday “However. humans do not take part in the life cycle of the disease, as it is unlikely that the dogs get infected by human livers.'’- : he said. Meat And Stamps The Post Office on Mangaia in the Cook Islands has recently lost its monopoly of being the island’s only butcher’s shop. The office formerly acted as retailer of frozen meat which arrived from Rarotonga on boat days Now, however, the local headmaster has successfully established a good breed of pig from New Zealand, which, when crossed with the native puaka, yields a good supply of fresh meat. ■ 1600 Shillings The ’’shillings for Chile” appeal, organised by the University of Canterbury Students’ Association last Wednesday and .Thursday has raised about £BO The association organised the appeal after a request from the New Zealand Students Association on behalf of the University of Alameda. Santiago. It was planned to raise one shilling from each of 3000 students in Canterbury New Clock A good story has earned for the headmaster of the Christchurch West High School (Mr C. A Noble) a new clock for his office. When his present clock, showed 7.30 last evening, Mr Noble said it was New Zealand standard time “But when the big hand is on the way down to the half hour it goes' 16 minutes fast and on the way up to the hour it goes 10 minutes slow I don’t enow how old it is; but a' twin in another room has a note inside saying it was repaired in 1919" The board's heart went out to Mr Noble and so did authority to buy a new clock. Ground Charges The latest account to the Christchurh West High School for use of grounds in Hagley park is £230. Reporting this last evening, the-headmaster (Mr C. A> Noble) said he had found a letter in which a former headmaster (Mr A. E. Caddick) asked that the ground charge should not be raised over £lO a year. , In contrast with his advice, the governors were delighted to learn that the school had acquired a new trampoline at no cost to the board because former pupils, parents and staff had provided all costs and some labour < Waterproofed Builders of the Auckland Transport Board’s new head office frustrated by rain falling on 27 consecutive days, have covered the whole .site with a 108 ft by 102 ft transparent canopy The canopy a flat sheet of polythene weights about three hundredweight and is supported by a low scaffold. The contractors are preparing the site for the foundations and the rain has delayed them for three weeks.—(P.A.)