General News

Press, Volume C, Issue 29468, 21 March 1961, Page 14

General News

No Room Mr R. M. Ansett, the managing director of Ansett Transport Industries, Ltd., the largest hotel operator in Australia, arrived at Auckland by air yesterday to find that he could not get hotel bookings in Auckland for himself and his team of executives. He spent the night at a luburban hotel. Tonight, however, after he has met Ministers in Wellington, he will have to go even further afield for a bed: he will fly- to Christchurch.—(PA.) Cricketing Bishop The Bishop of Auckland (the Rt Rev. E. A. Gowing) showed yesterday that bishops as well as governorsgeneral can be successful cricket captains. Leading the Anglican clergy against the students of St. John’s College, Auckland, Bishop Gowing scored 61 not out and took three wickets for 10 runs. He hit two sixes and several fours' in his 30 minutes at the crease, and took his wickets in five overs of right-arm, medium-pace, swing bowling. His team was not as strong as the' students, and went down 140 to 113, but the match was so successful that it will probably become an annual fixture.—(PA.) Carpenters Arrive Ten carpenters arrived at Wellington by air from Australia last evening to join the staff of Cubitt, Wells. Ltd., building contractors, in Auckland and Wellington. “The response to our advertisement in Australia was exceptionally good,” said Mr A. G. Wells, managingdirector of the company, last night. Mr Wells, however, would make no comment on the possible recruitment of more carpenters.—(PA.) Policy On Grants The Lyttelton Borough Council decided last evening that no further grants would be made to organisations until the finance committee had further examined the requests. Grants were reouested by the following: the Canterbury Yacht and Motorboat Club, Royal New Zealand Institute of Agriculture, Lvttelton Free Kindergarten Committee. Christchurch Civic Orchestra Committee, and New Zealand Council for Educational Research. £3OOO In Offerings Offerings taken at the opening of the new Methodist youth centre in Baring square, Ashburton, on Saturday, and at the special Thanksgiving service amounted to £3OOO. Loans amounting to £6OO were also promised. The Rev. A. R. Witheford said that accounts falling due on the building to date totalled £22.299 and the sum made available to the church to meet the accounts was only £lO short of this figure. . Crossing Capers Many first-hand cases were quoted when the New Zealand Carriers’ Federation conference discussed the problems of pedestrian crossings yesterday. The best “case" was that quoted by a Nelson truck owner, who told how he had had to wait at a crossing while two women held a conversation on it. After a short period, he tooted his horn at them, whereupon one of the women walked round to his cab window and demanded: "What’s all your hurry?” Nearing Home The 85-year-old Dunedin publisher. Mr A. H. Reed, who is walking from North Cape to Bluff, left Canterbury and walked into his home province of Otago on Sunday morning. Sun-tanned and weather-beaten, Mr Reed still walked with a spring in his step belieing his years as he strode on to the Waitaki bridge. He returned a wave from railway workers and their friends on the Canterbury side of the river before making for Oamaru, his Sunday night halt. His wave was one of many hundreds he has had to make to well-wishers on the roadside and from passing cars. As he nears home his greetings increase, and he will welcome the Easter beeak in Dunedin before he completes his journey, if only for the rest of his left arm. His legs, he ®ys, do not need it