CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

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

CHRISTCHURCH READINGS

The weather in Christchurch yesterday was cold, and mainly cloudy. Observations taken at the Meteorological Office Harewood vesterday:*

SUN, MOON ANU TIDES Sun—Today: Rises. 8.3 am.; sets. 53 pm. Tomorrow Rises S 3 em.: sets 5.4 pm. High water at Lyttelton—Today 1032 am. and 1034 p.m.: tomorrow. 1132 am. and 11.43 pm. Phases ol Moon First quarter: July 2, 3.49 pm. Full moon: July B. IXI a.m. Last quarter: July 18. 3.43 a.m. New moon: July 24. 831 am.

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 (Mf' G. 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 Fob 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 B.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 £80 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 las' evening, the'headmaster (Mr C. ANoble) 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 £10 a year. , In contrast with his advice, the governors were delighted > 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 108ft by 102ft transparent canopy The eanopy a flat sheet of polythene weights about three hundredweight and is supported by a lbw scaffold. The contractors are preparing the site for the foundations and the rain has delayed them for three weeks.—(P.A.) CAR AND TRUCK COLLIDE Two Persons Injured At Ashburton A man and bi» wife were admitted to the Ashburton Hospiial after the fight car in which they were travelling was involved in a collision with a truck at the corner of East street and Walnut avenue about 415 pm yesterday The injured persons are Mr and Mrs Donald McKinnon. of Palmerston North. They were taken by ambulance to hospital where their condition last even'P* reported as satisfactory A third person in the ear was not injured • The driver of the truck w V Mr Paul Clifford Bradley, of 4 Kerr street. Ashburton. The car was extensively damaged. TAX REDUCTIONS CONTROVERSY ROAD DEATHS IN JUNE29 Killed In NX . (New Zealand Pros* Association) WELLINGTON. July 1. Twenty-nine persons .were killed in road accidents during June to bring the total number-’of road' deaths for the last two months to 52, compared with 59 for, the same period last year Giving these figures today, the Minister of. Transport (Mr Mathison) said the number of lives lost on the road for the-last two months was, with one, exception, the lowest for 10 years. Road deaths this year now total 179. comRsred with 173 for the first six months of 1959. The Minister said the biggest reductions in road deaths so far this year had been/in Wellington and the Waikato traffic districts. He said that ' the remaining months of winter were always dangerous on the road and would call for the utmost care by all road-users. - He also stressed that pedestrian and cycling accidents tended to increase during the coming two months, and he urged cyclists to have - efficient lights and pedestrians to wear .or carry something white so they could easily be seen at night by motorists. ACCIDENT IN* BAKERY Youth In Hospital With Head Injuries (New Zealand Press Association/ AUCKLAND, July 1. A .7-year-old youth. Rangi Thomas, suffered head injuries when his head was caught between bread trays and the side of an oven at the bakery of Walter Buchanan Limited; in Auckland last evening. ■> He was taking bread from a conveyor belt as it came from the oven and a loaf fell to the floor. He leaned into the oven to get the loaf and his head was caught between the trays and the side of the’ oven. Workmates stopped the belt and freed Mr Thomas. . His condition in Auckland Hospital today was reported , to be ' ‘fairly satisfactory.” SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1960. Immigral Develo Opinions on immigration formed by Mr J. K. Dobson, president of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, in a three months' visit overseas accord closely with the conclusions of the committee which considered immigration at the recent Industrial Development Conference. Mr Dobson advocates bringing in skilled and semi-skilled migrants, not only to supply the needs of the growing population but to introduce valuable techniques in the production of goods. The No. 3 committee of the Industrial Development Conference found that New Zealand’s development was being impeded by a shortage of labour, particularly skilled labour; that the lack of skilled workers in such trades as engineering and metal working was particularly pressing, and that priority should be given to the encouragement of migrants with such skills. Selectivity of this sort is not favoured by that tireless advocate of immigration. Mr A. Leigh Hunt, chairman of the Dominion Settlement and Population Association. Mr Hunt thinks, pot unreasonably in a country with such a high standard of living as New Zealand, that it is unfair and selfish to take, not a crosssection of population, but only skilled men who have cost their Country of origin “some.£4000 “to £6000 each to rear, educate, “ and train ”. New Zealand’s immigration programme since the war has been too small and too selective. While other Commonwealth countries were taking . all the immigrants they could get, especially immigrants of British stock, New Zealand offered a home only to single, men and women in a narrow range of ages and skilled vocations. The opportunities missed in the early post-war years may never be recovered. With the improvement of the economic and social conditions in older countries few skilled workers are now keen to emigrate: and the Industrial Development Conference produced at least one strong argument against trying to make good the shortage by Sale Of ( The suggestion by Mr N. E. Kirk, Government member of Parliament for Lyttelton, that the indiscriminate sale of car keys should be checked merits study. In 1958 the police recorded 2925 cases of motorvehicle conversion, and 1258 prosecutions were brought One of the most disturbing features of the post-war. years has been the increase of crimes against property; and it is no reflection upon police efficiency to advocate every possible safeguard against such crimes Motor-vehicles are often converted because the culprits need them to facilitate other offences. Evidence in the Courts -shows that many car converters go deliberately and systematically about the business. The expert criminal tries to invest his acts with a semblance of legitimacy; therefore he will prefer to use a key rather than force a car door. tion And pment admitting a disproportionate number of unskilled workers. In a background paper presented to the conference, Mr Noel S. Woods, chief research officer to the registrar of industrial unions in the Department of Labour, said that within New Zealand are two populations growing at different rates, and mainly in different areas. The European population, with a natural increase of about 1.5 per cent, a year, is predominantly urban. The Maori population, increasing twice as fast (about 3.6 per cent, a year), is still largely located in rural areas. Mr Woods contended that New Zealand would be “ committing a supreme folly ” if it pursued immigration to the point of creating a racial problem of under-employed Maoris pent up in “ Maori ” areas while immigrant labour filled the vacancies for labour in other areas. Mr Woods argued that Maori migration to urban areas should already be flowing at a rate of some 4000 a year and should continue to increase year by year. The No. 3 committee in effect supported Mr Woods’s thought that “ it, “ would appear imperative that “ overseas migration should not “ hinder or substitute for Maori " migration ”. Mr Woods emphasised that population in New Zealand is growing faster than manv believe. With an increase of 24.6 pc;r cent, over the last 10 years New Zealand is not far behind Australia’s 27.2 per cent., a little further behind Canada’s 29.7 per cent., but a long way ahead of the Uijited States with 18.7 per cent. In four of the 10 years the rate of growth of population in New Zealand was higher than in Australia in spite of Australia’s massive immigration. New Zealand’s high birth rate gives much of the population increase that Australia has had to secure through immigration; but those who have shaken their heads over the .high capital cost of immigrants have seldom' recognised the vastly greater cost of population growth by natural' increase, which is, of course, a good but a very long-term investment indeed. Zar Keys It is fairly common, for the ignition switch and the door locks of a car to be operated by a common key, the serial number of which may be stamped on exterior door handles. As matters stand this allows a would-be thief to buy the appropriate keys without hindrance from garages. There is nothing to prevent criminals from acquiring as many different car keys as they wish The effect of restraint on sales would be unpredictable;, but cars would be safer from illegal interference. A statutory restriction might not achieve as much as a voluntary effort by the motor trade, which should consider introducing a system, such as Mr Kirk suggests, whereby keys would be sold only on reasonable oroof of lawful need. It seems oointless to exhort motorists to leave their cars locked when keys are so readily available to thieves. Auditor-Gei Error It (From Our O WEI The Auditor Gene tonight admitted that presented to Parliam have been incorrect. Statements made formed the major deb of Representatives t strictly correct, he said after hearing from the Opposition (Mr J. R. Until he conferred had been under the imp Government had been Customs Amendment / general taxation reduc believe that. It now se Government had used purposes. Mr Burns said these were purposes for which the act was not intended, and which, according to bis report, do not comply with the general principle that Parliament, and Parliament alone, has the right to impose taxation or to reduce it. Mr Burns said he now believed that the National,. Government in 1951 had used section 12 of the act tor general taxation changes. He believed this had been to reduce the price of petrol—a move on which his report challenges strongly similar Labour Government action last year. The Opposition sought j move ah' adjournment of the House of Representatives last re, to debate the matter. The motion failed. On Wednesday night, the Minister of Customs (Mr Boord) accused the Opposition of doing the very same thing when it was in power, for which it was now attacking the Government. Tonight. Mr Bums said he NAVY LEAGUE APPEAL More Than £450 Collected More than £450 was collected in. a street appeal yesterday by the Canterbury branch of the Navy League. In 1958. in a similar appeal. £170 was collected There were twice the number of collectors helping .this year, about 120, and they included members of the Sea Cadets, and girls of the Junior Navy League and the Middle Watch. A small stall held in the Trinity Congregational Church hall on the corner of Manchester and Worcester streets, raised more than £30. “We had hoped for about £300.” said the organiser of the appeal (Mr A. R. Mackay) last evening “and we are very pleased with the response and generosity of the public.” There were still some suburban boxes to be counted last night, and it was thought .Jhat the final figure would be about £500. Some of the money would be used for the training of the sea cadets. Mr Mackay said. FOUR PEAKS STATION Property Sold As Going Concern (f rom Our Own tfeponer) TIMARU, July 1. The Four Peaks station, comprising 205 acres of freehold and 9396 acres' of leasehold property was recently sold by Dalgety and Company, Ltd., on account of J S Barker and Son. The sale of the property as a going concern, was negotiated some time ago, and delivery is now being taken. The property was sold to Mr V. J H. Affleck, of Wendon Valley, Waikaka. The property carries 3250 halfbred and tiiree-quarterbi-ed breeding ewes. 950 ewe hoggets, and 150 wethers and comprises 200 acres of good farm land, mostly used for growing winter root crops, and 9396 acres of run country extending from Te Moana Gorge to the Meikleburn Flat, which is mostly good tussock country The buildings include a homestead and outbuildings. Four Peaks, which was formerly part of the Orari Gorge station, was taken up by Mr J S Barker in 1910. and has been held for the last 12 years by Mr Barker, in partnership with his sons. FARM SOLD FOR £40,000 Lansdowne Property » At Halswell More than 250 people attended the public auction of the Lansdowne farm yesterday. Bidding started at £35.000 and rose in £1000 bids to £40.000. when it was sold as a whole. Mr (S: Lester acted as buying agent The land comprises 112 acres divided Into 11 paddocks, all with a good water supply. Part of .the land is in crops and the rest is carrying 437 ewes. The buildings comprise a stone residence set jn a lovely oldworld garden, two garages, gtore room, woolshed and implement and animal sheds.-. The farm is regarded as one of the finest properties in New Zea land. It was offered for sale on account of the estates of M. B. and A. M. Sharp. leral Admits i Report um Reporter) XINGTON, July 1. rat (Mr Ar D. Bums) his report, which was ent last Friday, may in the report; which ate topic in the House lis week, were not . He had decided this deputy Leader of the Marshall). with Mr Marshall, lie ression that the present the first one to use the let, 1921, to bring about tions. He did not now emed that the National it in'1951 for similar now believed this to be so.,- He had not had time to check. His annual report said: “It would ppear # that the ' section was intended to operate only in special circumstances and not to enable general reductions in taxation. As far as the Audit Office is aware, this is the first instance where the 1921 legislation has been so used ’’ Mr Burns said ' tonight that the act had been used previously to protect and help local industry, which was its intention. It had been used to help apple and cement industries and to cut the price of tea. “That is all right and innocuous.” Mr Burns said. “Even on tea the tax take is negligible and is hardly a general tax reduction. The act had not been used to make general tax reductions until 1951. While a cut in Customs tax on tea could not be described as a general tax reduction, one on petrol copld be.” ARMY OFFIC1 LIBERAT1O1 Problems of restoring civil government to a South-east Asian province disrupted by insurgent operations were posed by intelligence arid planning staff to 125 senior Regular and Territorial officers at Burnham Military Camp yesterday, when the annual Army exercise began The simulated action they debated Was worked on a scale model representing 4000 square miles of battlefield covering jungle, paddy and limestone outcrops—a territory of the theatre in which the Dominion has defence commitments. Their principal general problem was based on a general situation in which up to 800 insurgents only, mingling in an area populated by many thousands of innocent civilians, drew’ the attention of five battle groups numbering about 14.000 men. This was the New Zealand Division flanked by Australian and British forces in a joint United Nations Command. The necessity of extinguishing insurgent operations without damaging civilian property or hurting the civilian population was described as equivalent to fighting with one hand tied behind the back. Airlifting of troops of a new New Zealand Division—a paper copy of the Australian-modified American pentropic formation with certain qualifications—was a feature of operations. Officers were told that a medium squadron of tour fixed wing and four helicopter aircraft could place two battle groups (about 5600 battle groups) in position in a day Great reliance for vital tezks was placed on shock troops— paratroop commandos of the Special Air Service Squadron— to precede infantry, take and hold key points and to reconnoitre. Reconnaissance Theory At one stage during open dis"hssion the concept of reconnaissance by armoured car regiment was questioned; leading military thought preferred unsuspected observation of a potential enemy “across the border” by way of highly-efficient communications carried by SAS troopers squatting unobserved in the bush. “Where people start fighting for information, folk disappear and you can’t get anything. The best information producer is the chap no-one knows is there or some scientific device,” was the summing up given by the Chief of the General Staff. Major General Sir Stephen Weir. General Weir emphasised the significance of intervention by a United Nations force in order to restore the previous civil government disrupted by insurgency incited beyond a border north. Nothing would be achieved if in gaining military contfol so much damage was caused that the* rehabilitation of civilian government became a long and difficult business, he said. Part of the difficulty lay in the fact that insurgents would not stand and give battle; their tactics were' sabotage, ambush and intimidation of the local population. He cautioned his “budding divisional commanders” that they had to have a plan to accept battle if the provacateur across the border decided not accept the intervention and confronted a UN force with opposition. He impressed that the task of the New Zealand Division, apart from gaining military control, would be to engender confidence SRS STUDY V PROBLEMS and friendship of the local inhabitants. ( That would call for the highest degree of discipline from top to bottom and ' subordinates would have to be engendered with a sense of mission. In an operation of this type, another thing that had to be remembered was that the “old indigenous habit of the New Zealand Army abroad, scrounging,’* was “out.” The Exercise will continue today and end tomorrow. New Zealcu r / 1 1 % jfc iihniw. A. \ lie!?' m i z - ' r i L J tardfHowe II. / z / FRONTS WEA COLD WARM -w—W~V OCCLUDED aRaAa. STATIONARY i' RAIN AREAS SHOWERS OF SCATTERED R HIGH PRE5SU OR ANTICVCLC LOW RRS55UI OR DE RRESSi FORECAST TO MIDP BRITISH CADCT CENTENARY Four S.l. Boys Chosen -Four cadets from South Island schools have been selected to represent New Zealand at the centennial celebrations of the cadet forces of Great Britain. Two of the boys are from school cadets, the other two representing the Air Training Corps and the sea cadets They are. tor the Army cadets: Cadet Warrant Officer G Whiting of St. Kevin's College, Qamaru. and Cadet warrant Officer D. J. Rawlence. of Christchurch Boys’ High School, The A.T.C. nomination is Cadet Warrant Officer A Kay of St Bede’s College. Christchurch. and for the Navy. Sea Cadet Petty Officer M Weodhall of. King’s High School. Dunedin. Cadet Warrant Officer Rawlence is almost 18 years old and has been a pupil at Christchurch Boys’ High School since 1966. Deputy senior monitor this year he is captain of the school's A grade trbckey team, and is a school librarian He also has bis school certificate and university entrance Regimental Sergeant Major of the school's eadet battalion, Cadet Rawlence is senior ityitruetor of the battalion's noncommissioned officer school. Cadet Warrant Officer Kay is at. present in the upper sixth form and was made warrant officer of St. Bede's College Air Training Corps Squadron this year. He is Personal hems Mr Justice Richmond will leave Christchurch on Monday to preside over sitting* of the Sunreme Court at Grevmoutb Mr Justice Maearthur will retnrn at the week-end from Blenheim’Supreme Court sessions to preside at the Christchurch Supreme Court on Monday Mr D Donaldson has been apoointed Director-General of the Post Office. He succeeds Mr C A McFarlane. Mr Donaldson who is at present deputy Director General joined the Post Office as an engineering cadet at Auckland in 1S22—(P.A) Mr G T Gorrie, who recently retired from the position M manager of the. British Traders Insurance-Company. Limited, was the guegt of honour at • farewell function held by the Canterbury Fire and Accident- Underwriters' Association, at-which a-presenta-tion was made , ■/. Tributes to Mr A. £. Caddick were paid by the Board of Gov ernprs last evening at the Christ church West High School where he was formerly headmaster The ejairman <Mr H. R. Peers) said 2*** to comparatively few years had created enduring 17 years bld. a member of the senw swimming team and a librarian A pupil at the ; 8® since 1956 he has his sennoi certificate and university hl rty T” 1 Cbri *»- church by air for Auckland next k .u They wiU fly to Singapore, stay there until July 11. and tto following day board a Comet which will take them to London. Situation.—Pressures are 1 of New Zealand and a southcountry. A cold front in the .to move on to Southland about Forecast:— Canterbury.—Light to m< partly cloudy skies at first, westerlies in the afternoon showers; temperatures cool. C West Coast.—Light winds but a change to moderate to afternoon or evening, with a p cool. Outlook:*changeable. Nelson.—South-westerlies in exposed places; a few sho wise partly cloudy: temperat conditions. Marlborough.—Fine, with southerly winds tn the evening tures cool. Outlook: changeab CHRISTCHURCH RE. The weather in Christcnurch yesterday was cold, and mainly cloudy. Observations taken at Uw Meteorological Office Harewood vasterday:* • D m midn’t Ha n. meter— (Inches) .. .. 29.63 29.66 (Millibars) .. 1003.4 1004.5 thermometer— Dry bulb .. .. 43.0 365 Wet bulb .. •• 40.4 34.8 Hel«i>v. numidlty (pel cent.) .. 78 83 WlnaDlrection W. W. Speed (m.p.h.) .. 10 10 Cloud. 0-8 .. 7 nil Maximum during day 54.3 Ramfall v a.m to mid* Sunshine Ihr 24min Readinn taken et B Maximum temp pre* 24 hours «•» Minimum temp ©rev 24 hours 26.0 Grass minimum temp. 19.9 ELECTRIC COFFEE GRINDERS. We have been able to procure a 11 quantity of these popula Grinders and they are selling at only 53s 9d from MASON' STRUTHERS. Colombo st. Telephone 65-079. —Advt.

Hainfai: hour Rainfall Rainfali rear pravtoua F4 a a. Nil 128210 16491a to date < to date last SUN SHIN B 1968 1959 1968 Jan. dm nm. .. HB 18 214 0 n m 195 36 Feb. .. 138 48 221 30 180 48 Mar. •r 188 0 163 12 •• 192 30 1 22 24 132 6 April 189 30 May .. 139 SO 121 30 .. 148 48 180 14 122 42 June July 99 0 .. 11012 165 18 •1 24 •To July 1.