General News

Press, Volume C, Issue 29602, 26 August 1961, Page 10

General News

Y.M.C.A. Appeal A record collection of more than £lOOO was made yesterday in the annual Y.M.C.A. street appeal. The amount last year was £B5O. The pre-' cise amount collected yesterday will not be known until Monday, when collection boxes from some of the suburbs will be received. At times during the collection 350 boxes were being used. The money will be used for the general purposes of the association. Arthur’s Pass Huts Additional new huts and bivouacs for noxious animals control have brought the number of huts and bivouacs in the Arthur’s Pass National Park to 33. This does not include club huts within the township area. The Forest Service has completed new huts in the Hawdon valley and near the Carrington and Anti Crow areas. All are available to the general public as well as forest protection officers. They also have bivouacs at Ranger stream. Hervey gorge, Casey stream, Minchin pass, Andrews valley and Sudden valley. Health Stamp Sales Health stamp sales for the first three weeks of the 1961 camj tign show an increase of £332 6s lid on the figures for last year. Up to last Wednesday, £16,510 worth of stamps had been sold in Christchurch and surrounding districts. . Crew Of Chatham Officials of the New Zealand Football Association are anxious to trace survivors of the crew of H.M.S Chatham, the ship which gave the Chatham Cup to the association. They are already in touch with two of the survivors, who have been invited to attend this year’s final of the Chatham Cup contest in Wellington today, and would appreciate information of further survivors.—(P.A.)

Carnival Posters A consignment of 600 posters that w’ill tell Australians about Carnival Week, to be held in Christchurch in November, left Harewood by T.E.A.L. on Thursday evening. The posters, from the Canterbury Public Relations Office, will be followed next week by several thousand folders giving the Carnival Week’s activities. About 3000 of the posters are to be distributed throughout the Dominion during the next ifew weeks. The poster has a black back-ground on which are coloured splashes of ex-1 ploding fireworks. Carpentry Centre One of the ways in which the Government was trying to equip young Maori people for town life was through the provision of trade training centres, said the Minister of Maori Affairs (Mr Hanan) at the opening of the South Island young Maori leaders’ conference in Christchurch last evening. There were two Maori carpentry centres operating in Auckland, and one in Wejlington, he said. “I hope that in the not too distant future there will be one in Christchurch,” he added. Attendance At Fair The cold and wet weather yesterday morning did not have a marked effect on attendance at the New Zealand Industries Fair. The paid attendance for the day was 6362, compared with 4970 on the same Friday last year. The attendance to date is more than twice that of last year—57,356, compared with 27,788. Mass X-Ray Figures The 244 persons who were X-rayed yesterday brought the week’s total to 1546 and the total for the mass X-ray campaign to 19.682. One hundred and twenty eight persons were X-rayed at the New Zealand Industries Fair yesterday.

Turf For Tokyo When the Japanese hockey team now touring New Zealand returns home, it will take with it a piece of Carisbrook turf about 6in square by 4in deep. An analysis of the turf ’may help the Japanese Hockey Association in its search for a suitable grass mixture for the five grass fields it will., have to lay before the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964. The manager of the team (Mr Sadayoshi Kobayashi) was given the sample by the Carisbrook groundsman when he visited the ground yesterday The Japanese also visited sports shops in the city where they obtained samples of various kinds of studs for boots. At the moment all Japanese hockey is played on hard, fine gravel and the players wear sandshoes.— (P.A.)