General News

Press, Volume C, Issue 29679, 24 November 1961, Page 12

General News

Minister’s House A property owned by the Minister of Finance (Mr Lake) at 151 .Hackthorne road. Cashmere, was passed in at public auction yesterday at £7OOO. One bid at this price was received. Mr Lake intends to live in the Fendalton electorate for which he is the present member of Parliament. The house in Hackthome road is a two-storey building with four bedrooms, a large lounge and dining room and a sunroom on both floors. In Poor Shape? It was the day of the experts and each group had ! its own "expertise, a kind of jargon erected as barbwire to i keep experts in other fields I out, to hide their own' deficiencies and to confuse the layman. Now experts j use such long words they confuse other experts,” said! the medical superintendent-in-chief of the North Canter-1 bury Hospital Board (Dr. T. Morton) addressing the New i Zealand Hospital Engineers' ■ Association conference yesterday. "Even teen-agers have their own language today. I do not know what a ‘square’ | is, except that my daughter ! calls me one. Tomorrow I may be ‘oblong’—that shape I will suit better for my coffin.” j Health Stamps Sales of health stamps this week at the Chief Post Office have been about double the usual rate, the deputy chief, postmaster (Mr J. W. Lin-; coin) said yesterday. Up to J Wednesday at closing time.l sales totalled £27 10s includ- | ing those from the special health stamp booth. People were evidently heeding the warning to hurry to buy the stamps before they were withdrawn, said Mr Lincoln. The stamps will be on sale until next Thursday. Hot And Cold The Christchurch Public! Hospital had a reasonable heating system the medical superintendent-in-chief of the North Canterbury Hos-i pital Board (Dr. T. Morton) i said to delegates at the annual conference of the New Zealand Hospital Engineers’ Association yesterday. "But in winter, we open all the windows and doors and let the wind and cold in. We then say that place is cold. In summer we say it is too hot. and call for Venetian blinds and awnings. We are! never happy. The engineers can never win.” Fish Scarce Most varieties of fish were i in short supply in Christchurch fish shops yesterday. Good supplies are expected today. Prices a pound were: groper, 4s to 4s 6d; tarakihi, 4s; gurnard and ling, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; cod, 2s 6d; bream and kingfish, 2s 6d: flounders, ?s to 3s 6d; soles, 3s to 4s. Extended Visit In July. 1939, Dr. W. Love-1 lock, music examiner, com-: poser and critic, went to In-| dia for two months. He did 1 not get back home for six years and a half. Dr. Love-i lock said in Christchurch! yesterday that be went to India at that time to take the place of a Trinity College of Music examiner who was ill. He was booked to return home in two months but had to stay on as examiner, touring all India. Ceylon and Burma. "In 1942 they pulled me into the Army and I ended up as a major. It was six years and a half from the time I left London until I got back and I did not see my wife and son all those years,” he said.

Australian Flag A Christchurch theatre has discovered it is the Australian flag in the film it shows while the National Anthem is played. A letter to ‘"Hie Press” said that the writer, formerly an Australian. had been told since he arrived in New Zealand that this country was not part of Australia, but the flag shown in the film proved to him that it was. The let-! ter was referred to the manager of the theatre. He con-: firmed that the flag was the! Australian Sag.

Long Wait For Liner The New Zealand Shipping Company’s passenger liner. Ruahine, which arrived in Auckland from Liverpool on November 11. started loading on Wednesday after lying idle for 11 days. She is taking on a cargo of butter, cheese, and meat Refrigerated cargoes have been hard to come by recently, and the Overseas Shipowners’ Committee, which determines the priority of Conference Lines ships.' ruled that the Ruahine would ! have to wait her turn. Such j a long wait for a passenge' liner is thought to be un-1 precedented.—(P.A.)