General News

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29717, 10 January 1962, Page 10

General News

’ Lambs Sell For 7Jd A pen of 18 small, late lambs sold for 7Jd each — almost a record low price—:at Wairoa last week. The absence of Hawke's Bay buyers caused a sharp drop in sheep and lamb prices at I the sale, the first for this .year. Better lambs sold from ’l4s to £l. and smaller Cheviots, which are not sought in the Wairoa area, made from Is to ss. Status For Clerks The Council of the Law Society in Britain and .Solicitors’ Managing Clerks’ Association have agreed on a new scheme for training clerks in Solicitors’ offices and on a new name for them —legal executives. The objects of the scheme are to give managing clerks professional status and to offer a career to young men entering the unadmitted ranks of the legal profession. London, January 3. Boy’s Go-Kart A miniature go-kart, made !to fit him, was the Christmas present of Jonathan Custance. aged 7, of Havelock ! North. The go-kart is the result of 60 hours’ labour by Jonathan’s father, Mr R. J. Custance, an engineering designer for a Hawke’s Bay firm. The go-kart is powered ,by a 50 cc motor and has all the conventional controls, .with a top speed of 24 miles an hour and a petrol comsumption of 100 miles to the i gallon. Apple Cucumbers Good supplies of the first apple cucumbers of the season from Nelson were sold 'yesterday in Christchurch produce markets for 10s a case. They are selling for 6d to 9d each in the shops. I Cucumbers from North (Auckland and Nelson were jplentiful, and sold for 5s to ;12s 6d a case in the markets, land for 9d to Is 3d each in 'the shops. Tongan Fowl Farm The Tongan Government is financing a 2000-hen battery |to make the islands more .self-supporting in egg pro. I duction. The first birds, 40 I Rhode Island Reds and 66 'White Leghorns, were imported last year from a poultry stud near Auckland. The first stage of the programme, a 500-bird battery, is being installed. The full I battery is scheduled for comipletion in 18 months. House Brings £30,000 A large residence at 186 .The Terrace, Wellington, opposite the top of Boulcott street, the home for many years of Dr. and Mrs W. E. .Herbert, has been sold for more than £30.000. The Government valuation is £22.900. At least one block 'of owner-occupier flats will i be erected in the grounds. The residence is set in one acre and a quarter of gardens and lawns with a I wide expanse of native bush at the rear. The floor area is 6000 sq ft and there are 16 j rooms. ! Fiordland Flight I A Fokker Friendship, with ’4O persons on board, last ! week made the first National ’ Airways Corporation scenic flight over Fiordland and the ■ lakes, since December. 1959. I Puysegur Point, Dusky, I Doubtful and Milford Sounds. Martins Bay. Queenstown, Te Anau and Manapouri were covered by the flight. Other flights will be made on January 21 and 28. Personal Items The Anglican Bishop of Kuala Lumpur (the Rt. Rev. R. Koh) who has been in Christchurch since Monday morning as the guest of the Ven. Archdeacon W. M. Davies, of Avonside, left for Wellington last evening. .While in Christchurch Bishop Koh visited the cathedral and the museum and was shown parts of the near countryside by his host In Wellington he will stay for a short time with the Chinese Missioner (the Rev. T. K. S. Mak). He will then go to Rotorua where he will stay for a few days with • the Rev. M. A. Bennett, and this family which is related Ito the New Zealand High (Commissioner in Malaya (Mr C. M. Bennett). Bishop Koh 'will then return to Malaya. Admiral Sir Caspar John. First Sea Lord and Chief of the British Naval Staff, will (attend the Waitangi Day celebrations at the Bay of Islands on February 6. He is expected to arrive in Auckland by air from Australia on February 5.