General News

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29802, 19 April 1962, Page 12

General News

No Paper Tomorrow “The Press” will not be published tomorrow’, Good Friday. Youth Orchestra The National Youth Orchestra will give concerts in Christchurch at the end of August, and the City Council agreed last evening that because of the educational nature of the orchestra and the efforts of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation to give local audiences the opportunity of hearing the young musicians, the Civic Theatre would be made available at the rental granted to non-profitmaking organisations. No Dogs Allowed Permanent metal notices “prohibiting dogs in shopping areas” would be affixed in shopping areas in the Waimairi county, it was decided .by the Waimairi County Council last evening. Cr. C. IL. Austin: Can these dogs read? Mr J. I. Colligan (county chairman): The notices are for the owners of dogs. Trumpeting At 2 a.m. A taxi stand in an Auckland street will be shifted after complaints from residents about the noise from motors, radios and drivers, made to the Auckland City Council traffic committee A report said one driver was practising on his trumpet at 2 o’clock in the morning. The committee decided to have the stand shifted. Valuable Forest A Waimairi Beach forest area, sponsored by the Canterbury Education Board and interested schools is expected to produce about £lO,OOO when milled in five years. New School The Canterbury Education Board has received authority to call tenders for the erection of a new school in Cutts road. Upper Riccarton. There will be Tour classrooms at the outset. Warm Day Summer clothes were worn on city streets yesterday, while those in winter coats were forced to discard them as the temperature in Christchurch mounted to its peak of 74 degrees, the highest for the month, at 3 p.m. This was an increase of 14.2 degrees on the maximum temperature for Tuesday. Aliens In N.Z. The greatest number of aliens in New Zealand are from Holland, according to the Government Statistician (Mr J. V. T. Baker). There are now 13,789. 260 more than at April 1 last year. More than 8000 of the Dutch are males. Aliens from the United States have increased by 123 to 1433, 993 of whom are males. Japanese have increased to 67. Cemetery Cleaners Goats will be considered by the parks committee of the Onehunga Borough Council as a means of keeping the grass short in the Hillsborough Cemetery, Mount Roskill. This was decided on the recommendation of Mr T. V Beeson, who said six goats would clean up the cemetery more cheaply than six men. Real Fruiterers “There will always be a place for the real fruiterer, or greengrocer,” says “Fruit and Produce," the monthly magazine of the New Zealand Fruit and Produce Merchants’ and Auctioneers’ Federation. “Pre-packaging has become popular in some countries because of shortened shopping hours, but the fruiterer who specialises in the display of fruit and vegetables, and who by the attractiveness of his shop and by personal service creates a sale of those lines will never be displaced ” Good Response An appeal by the District Officer of the Labour Department in Christchurch (Mr C. P. Collins) to employers to return promptly the forms sent to them in the department’s half-yearly survey of industry has met with a good response. Of the 5500 forms sent out, 65 per cent, had been returned, a spokesman for the department said. If the remaining 35 per cent, of employers sent in their forms immediately the department's work would be greatly expedited.