General News

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29366, 19 November 1960, Page 12

General News

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The Prime Minister, Mr Nash, recalled last evening when he addressed an election meeting in the Civic Theatre that his first address had been given 50 years ago, also in Christchurch. He said he had spoken in the Caledonian Hall with a doctor on behalf of a church organisation. "I am very proud I initiated my endeavours in Christchurch,” he said. Mr Nash, who is 78, has been in Parliament for 31 years next month. At his meeting last evening he was forceful, spoke clearly, and showed no sign nf Strain or fatigue, in spite of his age and the fact that he had just finished a strenuous Parliamentary session before embarking on the election campaign, which has now ended its third week. Pig Trouble A neighbour's pigs had been getting into the Ruatapu School garden and caused so much damage that horticultural instruction had to be transferred to part of the school teacher’s garden, the Canterbury Education Board was told yesterday. The board will consider the “problem” later. Icebreaker Due The American icebreaker. Glacier, a regular visitor to New Zealand, is due at Lyttelton on Monday morning from Boston. The captain is Commander P. W. Porter. The ship will leave for McMurdo Sound on Friday carrying about WO tons of cat-go for the rebuilding of the Byrd scientific station in the Antarctic. On board will be the deputy commander of the American operations, Captain E. A. McDonald. The Glacier will probably return to Christchurch in January. Costly Votes Voting twice in the one election can be both costly and humiliating for the offender, according to the chief electoral officer (Mr I. Irwin). When discovered, the offender is prosecuted and liable to either two years’ imprisonment or a heavy fine. His name is also placed on the corrupt practices list at the end of his district’s electoral roll for the next election and he is disqualified from voting in that election. Failing to register on an electoral roll can also result in a £2 fine for the first offence. Tariff £2 10s “I would like,to thank you for the splendid treatment the police gave me and the excellent breakfast provided this morning,” said Robert George Miller, aged 51, a carpenter, after pleading guilty in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington yesterday to charges of being twice fouryi drunk in a public place on the same day. Mr W. H. Carson, S.M., said he was not responsible for any of the hospitality extended, so he could not accept the Congratulations. He imposed fines totalling £'. 10s and costs £I.—(P.A.) Lincoln High School The Minister of Education (Mr Skoglund) has informed the Canterbury Education Board that a decision on its proposal for the establishment of a separate board to control the Lincoln High School is being withheld pending a report by the Director of Education (Mr A. E. Campbell) on the general question of these new full-status country high schools. • Unpaid Labour The introduction of P.A.Y.E. taxation involved jtublic accountants in many explanations of the scheme to their clients. “Particularly in times of falling incomes, the public accountant is loath to pass this extra cost on to his client, and in most cases bears it himself.” said the secretary of the New Zealand Society of Accountants (Mr A. W Graham) in a recent talk to senior officers of the Treasury, reported in the latest issue of the "Accountants’ Journal.” One public accountant in a small town told Mr Graham that in the year ended March 31, 1959 he spent more than 600 hours—for which no charge was made—helping non-clients with routine P.A.Y.E. Fishing Rivers The Selwyn and Halswell rivers were reported clear and fishable by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society at 9 a.m. yesterday. The Waiau and Rakaia were reported as dirty and the Hurunui and Waimakariri as discoloured. Personal Items , Mr Justice Macarthur will leave Christchurch tomorrow to preside ' over quarterly sessions of the ’ Supreme Court at Greymouth. He , is expected to return to Christchurch next week-end. The Mount Cook National Park Board has held a dinner in honour of Mr W P Packard, a foundation member, who has been appointed warden of a new hostel at the Australia National University. Canberra. Speakers said that. . apart from his general contributions to the work of the board, his handbook on the parte would be a monument to him. Mrs C. C. Holland has been appointed representative of the Canterbury Education Board on the- Christchurch Special Class After-Care Committee in place of Mr R. R. Beauchamp, who has retired from the board. Mr E. F. Wilde will represent the Canterbury Education Board on the Christchurch Metropolitan Road Safety Committee. The Canterbury Education Board has renominated Mr E. B. E. Taylor as chairman of the Primary Teachers’ District Appeal Board and appointed its chairman (Mr A. Greenwood) as its representative on the appeal board. Dr. H. D. Livingstone, of Christchurch, who has been visiting lecturer in the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, was recently awarded a fellowship by the Smith Kline and French Foundation to assist him in travelling in the. United States. Before going to Nebraska Dr. Livingstone, who left Christchurch in July., attended the annual meeting of the World Federation for Mental Health in Edinburgh, and the annual meeting of the American Mental Hospitals’ Institute in "Utah. He will return home early' next month.