General News

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29401, 31 December 1960, Page 12

General News

No Paper On Monday “The Press” will not be published on Monday. January 2. Good Forecast Fine weather for New Year’s Day and Monday is forecast by the Weather Office. This should be general for the whole country. Temperatures should start rising tomorrow.—(P.A.) Tomatoes Cheap Local glasshouse tomatoes sold at very low prices in the Christchurch produce markets yesterday. In good supply, they ranged in price from 6d to Is a pound. The limited supply of vegetables offered for sale met with a good demand but prices generally remained on a par with Thursday’s. Peas, in good supply, brought between 3s' and 10s a case, and potatoes sold for 18s a case. Lettuces ranged in price from Is to 3s a case, cabbages from 9s to 12s and cauliflowers from 2s to 14s. Strawberries and raspberries sold -up to 4s and 2s 9d a punnet respectively. They Took A Train Boxing Day was the busiest that the Christchurch railway station —old or new—has ever known. The Railways Department district traffic manager (Mr C. J. Millin) said yesterday that about 6000 passengers passed through the station during the day. “Good Beer Here” Captain A. B. Udovich, master of the Russian scientific schooner Varya; now at Wellington, likes New Zealand beer. “Your beer is good,” he said. “It is very like ' Australian beer and about the same as the usual Russian beer, though we have plenty of varieties, f Glass for glass and bottle for bottle, the price is relatively high, but it is very well prepared and very cold, which we like." TV In Hastings A Hastings resident saw a broadcast of the Davis Cup tennis in Australia on his home-made television set. Mr A. B. Collins had switched on his television set on the chance of picking up a station, when the image of the Davis Cup telecast came on the screen. The set received both picture and sound. Beef By Air One DC3 cargo aircraft belonging to Macßobertson Miller Airlines, Ltd., Perth, carried nearly 2,000,0001 b of meat, edible offal and hides from Glenroy in the Kimberleys during the 1960 air beef season, says a report in a recent issue of the Australian “Pastoral Review.” During the season, which lasted nearly 19 weeks. 4608 cattle were processed and the aircraft made 222 round flights between Derby and the Glenroy abattoirs. On the return flights stores and equipment were back-loaded. Under the air beef scheme, cattle are killed in the outback in prime condition and are boned out. The meat is chilled and flown 161 miles to Derby on the coast where it is packed for export. Pale Seahorses The bottom of a tank coritaining 16 live seahorses at the Napier aquarium collapsed, precipitatng the seahorses and 40 gallons of water into the building. The seahorses were rescued none the worse except for a fright, and the result of the fright was that they lost colour and huddled together. Personal Items Mr F. H. Brown, who has been with Fletcher Humphreys and Company, Ltd., for 25 years, the last 11 as managing director, has resigned for health, reasons.