General News

Press, Volume C, Issue 29524, 27 May 1961, Page 10

General News

Jury Of 11 A juror who became ill when evidence was being given , during a trial in the Supreme Court yesterday about a man bleeding from I his lip and bleeding internafly was excused from further duty by Mr Justice Richmond. With the concurrence of counsel for the Crown and the defence, his Honour directed that the [trial continue with 11 jurors. It was the second trial .during the current criminal session to be beard by 11 jurors because of illness. 100 Years Mr L C. Walker, of Christchurch, has read every copy of “The Press,” which became 100 years old on Thursday. Sending bis congratulations to the editor, Mr Walker said: "I have read all issues in the original. In 1907 I spent many months reading the original issues lin the Canterbury Public Library. Since then it has I been a day-to-day problem.” Old Debt Paid I “Now I don’t owe anybody .a penny.” said Mr Charles! 'O’Connor, aged 63. as he ihanded a former Auckland! 'taxi driver. Mr Harry Jury, iaged 70. £3 15s for a taxi /are incurred 30 years ago. [ Mr O Connor had arranged to pay the fare later when he took the trip. On his way to meet Mr Jury he was robbed of £l7 of the £lB he had on I him. He promised to pay as soon as possible but lost touch with Mr Jury through two long spells in hospital. Mr O’Connor advertised recently and so the pair met again.—(P.A.)

Lost Glasses Last year 4861 glasses worth i £309 19s 2d were lost by the Clutha Licensing Trust, the general manager (Mr A. Hill, told members at a meeting of the trust. As this loss represented about 94 glasses each week, it was suggested that the trust’s initials be branded into the glasses. Mr Hill was instructed to investigate this proposal. TV Boredom Students in a large Nottinghamshire secondary school recently made one of the strangest requests ever received by a school staff—they asked to be supplied with more homework, according to a report in the “New Zealand Methodist Times.” The reason given for such a “his-tory-making” request was reputed to be simply boredom, [from the “countless long, [dark, unendurable winter evenings spent with aching eyes glued to the television screen." Tobacco Prices Average prices for tobacco grown during the 1960-61 season have been fixed by a price order issued by the Price Tribunal which came into effect yesterday. The prices to be paid by manufacturers are not less than 4s 4d a pound for flue-cured leaf and 3s 11 Id a pound for ; air-dried leaf. For raw tobacco the price is not less than 2s a pound.

Bridge and Population Latest census returns show that Auckland's North Shore population has expanded sharply with the better access provided by the two-year-old Harbour Bridge. Marked increases are shown by Birkenhead (28.4 per cent, to 7245'. Glenfield (now 5706). East Coast Bays (26.6 per cent, to 9494), and Takapuna (9 per cent, to 20.415) Devonport. previously the rrwin outlet for traffic from tire North Shore, but now rather remote from the bridge, has dropped 89 people or .8 per cent, to 11.090.

Parakeet Exports A consignment of Ros Ila parakeets believed to be the first ever exported from New Zealand, will leave Auckland by air this evening for Zurich. Switzerland The parakeets, seven males and seven females, were bred by Mr W. Baker, of Hamilton, and are being exported on behalf of a Swiss bird-fan-cier, by Mr K. Waldvogel. also of Hamilton. They are valued at £4 each. Mr Waldvogel. a Swiss, who has been in New Zealand for 10 years, said the importer, Mr H. E. Huscr, of Zurich, had asked for 50 more parakeets to be sent to him.—(P.A.)

“Black Mark” “It is a great black mark on my country, for which I am extremely sorry,” said Todd Duncan, the famous negro baritone, when interviewed in Dunedin on United States race problems. "What I think New Zealanders do not know is that the segregationists are in the minority, even in the south, and they are, fighting a losing battle,” be said. [Segregationists were going against the law of the land. For the other side of the ledger to the Alabama incidents. Mr Duncan showed a newspaper clipping he has just received which headlines the appointment of his son as th ■ first negro to a top post in the office of the United States AttorneyGeneral.

Fish Cheaper Fish prices dropped slightly in Christchurch shops yesterday because of the greater variety and quantity available. There was also a limfiled supply of oysters. Prices a pound were: Ling. 2s 4d: gurnard. 2s 6d: tarakihi, 3s [6d; blue cod. 4s; flounder fil[lets. 6s; sole. 3s 6d; and groper 4s 6d. Pawer-cycllat Injured.—Victor James Shackleton, of 386 Keyes road. New Brighton, suffered minor hesad injuries when a power-cycle he was riding and a car were involved in a collision at the intersection of Barbadoes and .Hereford streets about 2 p.m. 'yesterday. He was treated [at the Christchurch Hospital |and sent home.