General News

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29799, 16 April 1962, Page 12

General News

Unscheduled Act An Auckland guitarist’s response to his billing as a star at a dance at New Plymouth on Saturday night was

to jump about a foot into the air and crash unconscious from the stage. The unscheduled act took place when the guitarist, Johnny Bradford, plugged in his electric guitar for his star turn. A member of the group explained later that Bradford’s guitar was equipped for direct current and he had plugged in to alternating current He suffered shock and a gash in the nose and was treated at the New Plymouth Hospital. —(P.A.)

Start Of Season Almost a score of players were injured in Wellington when the club Rugby season started. Ambulances were busy much of Saturday afternoon conveying them to hospital. Many others received treatment on the field. A fractured jaw and fractured legs were among the more serious injuries.—(P.A.)

Maoris In Army There should be more young Maori leaders in the New Zealand Army. MajorGeneral L. W. Thornton, Chief of the General Staff, told the 1962 Lions Internation (New Zealand) conven-

tion. "The opportunity is there, but they are not coming forward in the proportions they should,” he said. Among the young people there seemed to be resentment against leadership. “There seems to be a feeling that for someone to lead someone else is not democratic,” he said. The Army spent a great deal of time and energy on the cultivation of leaders and in this field was ahead of the civilian community.—(P.A.) Entertainers And TV Entertainment artists making appearances on television were warned last night by the Maori bass. Inia Wiata, to be “very careful lest their repertoires become frittered away.” Mr Wiata. w’ho will begin a six-week concert tour in Rotorua tonight, said: “You’ve got to be very careful how much you appear on television. You reach an audience of four million people each time you go on. If you do it too often, you'll run out of things and easily become typed.” The 8.8. C. and I.T.V. did not worry if an artist was becoming stereotyped. Engagements were offered so long as an ar-i tist was in demand, he said. —(P.A.) Game Reserves Recent proposals to attract tourists for tire hunting of noxious animals by the setting aside of game reserves were deplored by the recent meeting of the committee of

management of the Tussock Grasslands, and Mountain Lands Institute. The committee recorded its concern at the increasing references to exclusive rights being offered to tourists. Believing that such practices were contrary to sound conservationprinciples, the committee urged the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council to make strong representations to the Government to prohibit any moves in this direction The institute has been informed that it is Government policy not to set aside anv areas on Crown land, in State forests or in national parks for exclusive rights to hunting or fishing No Saveloys No saveloys or pies will be on the suoper menu for the Hutt Rugby Chib’s golden jubilee ball on Easter Monday Instead, the sunoer. which will be served from 1030 p.m to 1 a.m., will include creme cod. cold roast pork and apple sauce chicken roasted and pieced ham off the bone, potato salad, curried chicken and rice. Continental loaves of bread and parsley butter, asparagus rolls. oysters, assorted Continental meat balls, club sandwiches, hot assorted savouries, gerkhins. peanuts, chippies, pickled onions. pineapple cheese, fruit salad and cream, trifles and decorated cream sponges. High Country Trees Indiscriminate planting of trees in tussock country was viewed with concern by the committee of management of the Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lands Institute at its recent meeting. Well meaning but possibly misguided efforts by individuals or groups planting trees in fee high country wife fee aim of checking erosion were using some species which, in certain circumstances, could become serious weeds. Plans for tree planting should be cleared wife fee Forest Service. the committee considered. Chindits A Dunedin school teacher and an Englishman who is an insurance assessor in the city once served as Chindits in Burma. Twenty-eight Chindits have been traced in the North Island with the hope of forming a guard of honour for the arrival of the Governor-General designate. Brigadier Bernard Fergusson. who commanded a Chindit battalion. Mr J J McMath. who is a teacher at Riselaw road School, was a captain in the 66th Column of the 3rd West India Brigade. Mr F Ireland, an insurance assessor, went to live in Dunedin from England six years ago He was a warrant officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Bay Bit by Car.—A schoolboy, Gary John Harris, of 6 Evans Pass road, suffered head injuries when he was struck by a car on the Main road, Sumner, near the Sumner Surf Club pavilion about 4.45 p.m. on Saturday. He was treated at the Christchurch Hospital. *