General News

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29901, 15 August 1962, Page 14

General News

Pin-Up Boy A well-known Napier woman’s secret that "Lord Cobham is my pin-up boy" was quoted by the Mayor of: I Napier (Mr P Tait) at a I civic farewell to the Gov-1 I ernor-General and Lady ; Cobham, as typical of the! esteem in which the Gov-. ernor-General was held Lord Cobham said, in his reply, that this reminded him of the churchwarden who put on the notice board: “The ! preacher for next week will be pinned to the notice i board" “And.” said Lard Cobham, "it prompts me to 'add something to Sir Winston Churchill’s remark of 'Some chicken—some neck’— some notice board, jome pinup boy”—(PA) Old British Dog The Labrador. Adjutant. Britain's oldest dog. celebrated his 26th birthday with, ,a meal of beefsteak. If seven human years make one canine year, this birthday' makes him 182—and gives tan h 9497th day. “Adjutant siui trots happily at the j heels of his master, Mr Laines Hawkes, a Lincoln- . shire gamekeeper.” says the (“Daily Express." “He earned his keep as a gundog (for 14 years. Now his hearing and eyesight aren’t as, good as they were and nisi iblack coat is turning grey.; i but he enjoys life, plays with 'other dogs and enjoys a bone I 'with the best of them.”—l (London, August 14. Loss Of Mail ! Only nine letters from 311b' .of mail for New Zealand: were recovered from the i j Britannia aircraft which i crashed at Honolulu on July; 23 The Post Office learned: this yesterday The nine had, been put in new envelopes: and stamped with informaition saying they had come from, the crash. They were Idistributed for delivery. About 141 b of first-class mail. 61b of second class mail and parcels weighing 111 b from (Vancouver, were in the airj craft.—(P.A.) Frogs By Air Three New Zealand frogs have left Auckland on the first stage of a journey which; I will eventually take them; |behind the Iron Curtain They; are being flown to a proles- ! [sor at the University of, Warsaw. Poland. The frogs; i are a primitive type and re-‘ j lated to a South American | 'species which the professor; has studied A Pole. Mr W lA. Wodzicki, who is in charge of the Animal Ecology Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in Welling- . ton, arranged the consign[ment. Immortality 1 Great names of the Royal [ Society of New Zealand were "immortalised” in the splendid menu provided by Lincoln College for the centennial dinner of the Canterbury branch last evening. Dishes ranged from “Baba von Haast” for the founder of the Philosophical Insti- ; tute of Canterbury to Flemi ing sauce (with leg of pork) ifor Dr. C. A. Fleming, presiI dent of the New’ Zealand j society, and “glace Knox” for ; Professor Knox, the president : in Canterbury. Charitable Bequests I Bequests totalling £ 1750 (are made to three charities; ;in the will of Mrs Madeline Zita Rutherford, a widow,; i who died in Christchurch on [July 23. leaving an estate ! sworn for probate at under[ [ £27.000. Probate was grantedl | in the Supreme Court yesterday. Mrs Rutherford left £lOOO to the Foundation for the Blind, £5OO to the Canterbury - West Coast ‘ branch of the Cripoled Children Society, and £250; for the Society for the Pre- 1 vention of Cruelty to Animals.