General News

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29893, 6 August 1962, Page 8

General News

Tiddlywinkers

The British international tiddlywink team won its first trans-Atlantic match at New York yesterday, easily beating an American team. 6-1. 5-2, 6-1. 6-1. The match was held in a New York restaurant under the auspices of the American People-To-People Sports Committee. The former world heavy-weight boxing champion. Jack Dempsey. presented the winners—three male students of Keble College, Oxford, and a girl —with a loving cup. The United States team coach said they preferred wooden winks but deferred to British rules and British plastic winks.— <New York. August 5.) Snow On Top Cars with snow on them in I Cathedral square last evening showed that the fall had come close to Christchurch and that the city's temperatures were not high enough to melt it. Some of the vehicles belonged to travellers, but others carried skiers who had been to the mountains. Royal Birthdays To mark the sixty-second birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, on Saturday flags were flown on several buildings in Christchurch. Two other members of the Royal Family will have birthdays this month Princess Anne will be 12 on August 15. and Princess Margaret' will be 32 on August 21. Visit To School About six members of the Bolshoi Ballet Company, which has just completed a short season in Christchurch, paid a brief visit to Christ’s College on Saturday morning. The Russian visitors were shown over the science block, looked into the chapel and gymnasium, observed briefly the morning assembly and met the headmaster and some members of the staff: A pupil of the college and two university students who spoke the language acted as interpreters. Braille Week The appeal by the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind has so far realised more than £33.000 in the Auckland area. Money is still to be collected from a few areas and suburbs. Of the total. £23.000 was raised in Auckland city and suburbs, and £lO.OOO was collected from the provincial districts. —(P.A.) Education House The Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) will consider a request from the New Zealand Educational Institute that the Queen should be asked to lay tha foundation stone of Education House the official headquarters of the institute, according to “National Education.” the official journal of the institute The journal says that £lO.OOO of the £130.000 needed for the construction of the building has been received. Science Block The Ministry of Works has called tenders for the third stage of the university science block at Ham—the construction of a three-storey building and a six-storey building connected with a three-storey covered way. The total floor area of the buildings is about 128.000 square feet. Data Transmissions The feasibility of data transmissions from an earth tracking station at Andover. Maine, to another station at Lanmon, France, via the American Telstar satellite, will be tested within the next few weeks Computers identical to that recently installed at the University of Canterbury will be used during the experiments. They will provide guidance and tracking information and determine the optimum position of the communications antennae for each successive orbital pass They control and adjust the position of the antennae to assure maximum reception of the signal. Savings Increase After being open for three days, the Canterbury Savings Bank now has 2400 depositors. who have lodged a little more than £372.000 The bank has exhausted its supply of 1000 piggy banks, although it is holding a few for customers who opened accounts before the banks arrived. Precaution The master of a ship carry;mg radioactive substances ! must notify the Harbour Board of any occurrence i which may have lowered the standard of safety of the container of the substances, acI cording to a recent amendment to the General Harbour Regulations. 1954 Tire Medical Officer of Health must then be notified by the board and no cargo may be handled without his prior consent. Girders For Bridge Three-ton horizontal girders w’ere hoisted into position on the new overhead traffic bridge across the permanent way at Lyttelton yesterday It is hoped that by the end of the month al! the horizontal sections will be in position and that the elevated roadway will be ready by the end o f November More girders above the permanent way will be shipped next Sunday when the port should be reasonably quiet again and rail traffic at a minimum Tenders For Bells Tenders have been called for 250 safety bells which are to be installed in Christchurch City Council vehicles At first it was proposed to fit the belts to the traffic department's vehicles only, but eventually ft was decided to install them in all the councils faster vehicles.