General News

Press, Volume C, Issue 29635, 4 October 1961, Page 12

General News

Famous Relation The Governor - General ■ (Lord Cobham) used an apt conversational gambit when . ha met members of the Pahiatua Municipal Band at the opening of the new Tararua College yesterday. “My cousin,” he said, "plays the trumpet and he has a small band in England.” The cousin is Humphrey Lyttel- [ ton, one of England’s foremost jazz musicians.—(P.A.) Missing Detonator A detonatorwhich could be extremely dangerous in the hands of children disappeared at Kaiapoi yesterday. The detonator, which is about 1 Jin to 2in in diameter and painted red or blue, was fastened to a railway line at Kaiapoi with a metal clip to warn any train passing over it that work was being done on the line ahead. Some of the track near the Kaiapoi station is being relaid, and several of the detonators had been placed on lines to warn any approaching trains. The Kaiapoi police emphasised last evening that a child playing with the detonator and accidentally exploding it could suffer severe injury. Loan Popular Sixty-five per cent, of the North Canterbury Hospital Board's £Bl,OOO loan had been sold by yesterday afternoon, at the end of the second day of opening, the secretary (Mr J. G. Laurenson) said. All the 1966 portion of the loan (£15,Q00 at 5 per cent.) had been taken up, and all but £l3OO of the 1964 portion (£lO,OOO at 4 J per cent.). The 1971 portion (£56,000 at 5j per cent.) was nearly half sold with £29.350 still to go. Return In Mind When the GovernorGeneral (Lord Cobham) returns to Britain after completing his term in a few months, it will not be his last departure from New Zealand. He made this clear when officially opening the new Tararua College at Pahiatua yesterday. “My wife and I will have deep regrets at leaving the land of the long white cloud for the land of the low grey fog,” said Lord Cobham, "and we hope to return here some day. In fact, it will take a great many men- with bayonets to keep us out.”— (P.A.) Fishing Prospects Bags on the opening day of the fishing season in the Waimate district indicate a good season for South Canterbury anglers. A 51b trout was taken from the Waihao river near Hayman’s, together with a number of smaller fish; and anglers who fished the Waitaki river report fair successes. A party of three who visited the Waitaki dam each obtained limit bags, although several other anglers nearby had poor sport.—(F.O.O.R.) Engine’s First Fire The Westport Volunteer Fire Brigade gave its new £4OOO engine its first run yesterday morning in answer to a call to a house in Romilly street. Westport. Little trouble was experienced in suppressing a small fire in a cupboard, believed to have spread from a heating appliance, but the brigade had to cover an extra distance to the north end of Romilly street, after confusion about the house number—the firemen being sent to No. 17, instead of 117.—(F.0.0.R.) Whitebait Supplies Between 8501 b and 9001 b of West Coast whitebait was sold in Christchurch fish markets yesterday. It is selling in city shops for 16s to 18s a pound. The same amount is expected again today. Fish was in good supply. Prices a pound were: groper and crayfish, 4s 6d; blue cod and flounder, 4s; soles. 6s; tarakihi, 3s to 3s 8d; bream. 3s; gurnard and ling, 2s 6d. New Stamps A 5d stamp is to be issued in the current flower series, and is likely to appear early, in the new year, the Post Office announces. The 2Jd stamp in the series, to re- , ptace the 2J on 3d Queen Elizabeth stamp, will probably be issued about the beginning of next month. The Christ- ; mas stamp, due to appear on , October 16, will be printed in black, red, yellow, and blue, to approximate as near as possible to the colours of Albrecht Durer’s painting ' which it reproduces. X-Ray Figures The two mobile units and the static unit of the Health Department X-rayed 409 persons in Christchurch yesterday. The total X-rayed in the city is now 29,653. Travelling Exhibition The Christchurch Posf Office engineers' branch travelling exhibition, which has been on view to the public and to schools in the Christchurch and Timaru districts over the last few months, has left for a fortnight's tour of the Invercargill district. On its way back (o Christchurch it will tour the Dunedin area, also for a fortnight Last week, the exhibition visited district high schools in North Canterbury,

Synod Membership "Can anyone be complacent about the Church of England today,” asked the Rev. K Bathurst, of Rangiora, of members of the Synod of the Diocese of Christchurch yesterday. “We hear so many fine words, but I would say that never have we needed the confidence and trust between the diocese and general parishes as now." Mr Bathurst was speaking in support of increased country representation on the synod "This bill will give provision for a better spirit of co-opera-tion between the two. without which our work is of no avsn.” he said. The bill was