General News

Press, Volume C, Issue 29570, 20 July 1961, Page 12

General News

Unclaimed Prize The limit of three months in which prizes esn be claimed has now expired in the “Great Easter” art union, and none of the numerous, claimants for the £5OOO first prize has produced either the I winning ticket or evidence of, having bought it Announcing this yesterday, the Canteri bury district agent of the art; union (Mr D. McCormick* j [ said that the file had been | i forwarded to the Minister of, ; Internal Affairs (Mr Gotz). [whose responsibility it was to [decide what would happen to i the unclaimed £5OOO. Motunau Beach Sites The Waipara County Council has decided not to renew leases of bach sites ini the council’s recent sub-; division where the tenants] had not complied with their j obligation to erect a dwelling within one year, unless! satisfactory guarantees were forthcoming that the terms) of such leases would be com-1 plied with. Now A Street ' Half of Colombo street (from Strickland street to . Ashgrove street has never I been dedicated. It achieved recognition as a public street by the City Council last evening after the district land registrar had drawn at- , tention to the position. 833-1 X-Rayed j' More than 8000 persons [ have been X-rayed in the ‘ Health Department’s cam- ' paign which started in 1 Christchurch on July 3. 1 Yesterday 397 persons were X-rayed and the static unit < also X-rayed 42 persons who j had been recalled for a ( second photograph. - The , total since the beginning of . the campaign is now 8334. Today one of the units will operate in Lichfield street between Manchester and Madras streets from 9 a.m. • to 12.30 p.m. and at the corner 1 of Barbadoes and St. Asaph < streets from 2 p.m. to 3.30 i p.m. The other unit will be i at the corner of Montreal ■ and St. Asaph streets from ; 8.30 a m. till noon. From 12.30 . p.m. till 2 p.m. it will be in , Tuam street near Antigua street, and from 2.30 p.m till 4.30 p.m. it will be at the corner of Moorhouse avenue and David street. The static , until will X-ray persons who • have been recalled. Ballet Arrives j Travel weary and wan, ■ , members of the Leningrad Ballet arrived at Wellington) i airport from Sydney lasi I i night. They had left Russia ! four days before. The women wore short-skirted (frocks or trim slacks and warm jackets or unpretentious top coats. Some were too tired to do other than sit and rest. Some of the younger dancers aged 19 look almost childlike. The women generally have an appealing youthful freshness. —(P.A.) Delayed By Floods 1 Three members of the Canterbury Progress League were unable to attend the monthly meeting of the league’s council last evening ■ because of the widespread ! flooding in the province.! Reading out apologies from] these members the chairman [ (Mr B. J. Drake) said the l chairman of the Ashley! County Council who had been , asked to attend the meeting in place of the council’s usual representative who was in Wellington, was unable to travel to Christchurch because of three swollen streams on his property. Another member,- Mr A. A. McDonald, of Ashburton, was on his way to the meeting when he encountered floodwaters across the road at the Selwyn river. His apology was received by telephone on his return to Ashburton. A third member from Rangiora was unable to get out of his property for fear that his car would get bogged. Fish Very Scarce Fish is very scarce in Christchurch shops, and supplies today at the markets are not expected to improve. Yesterday there were only 12 cases of fish for sale, a normal market being about 4000 cases. One fish retailer said yesterday that he could not remember paying such high prices for fish. Tarakihi sold in shops yesterday up to 3s 6d a pound and sole fillets at 6s 6d a pound. Ling was 2s 6d and herrings Is 6d. Blue cod and red cod was 4s and 3s a pound respectively. It was not known last evening when boats could get out.