General News

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29907, 22 August 1962, Page 12

General News

Welcome Peal Peals of welcome to the King and Queen of Thailand will be rung on the bells of the Christchurch Cathedral for about 15 minutes from the time of their arrival at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow. The full ring of 10 bells will be accorded the Royal visitors. Top Of Course Mr H. J. Yeabsley, deputydirector of the Dominion Xray and Radium Laboratory, at present overseas on a World Health Organisation fellowship, recently came top of a course in radiological health at the Robert A Taft Sanitary Engineering Centre in Cincinnati The course was taken by a large number of Americans, some of them professors. There was only one other person from the Commonwealth on the course. He was Mr H M Whadte. of the occupational health division. New South Wales. He gained second highest marks. Drain On Teaching The proposed institute of education, increased status tor administrative positions, up-grading of teachers’ college lecturers, and the rise of technical institutes would all drain off some of the most talented teachers, said the president (Mr A. G. A. Baigent) to the Post-primary Teachers’ Association conference in Wellington. There was a grave danger that the pool of ability for teaching would contract, because its source would dry up in the schools, unless incentives were offered to teachers. Sitdown Ivy Cottis, a 55-year-old charwoman, who is only four feet tall, ’ spotted two men taking away a safe yesterday. So she sat on it, and in the end the men drove off in disgust. She was working in the kitchen of a club in St. John’s Wood, London, when she saw the men carrying out the club’s safe towards a van. “I was so angry I jumped on the safe and sat there,” she said, according to the “Daily Mirror.” “Gertcha. I'm sitting here—and you can lump it,” she told them. The men, after pleading with her. finally gave up and left. — London, Aug. 21. Teachers Delayed A party of teachers being flown out from the United Kingdom has been delayed in Newfoundland. Their aircraft, a Royal New Zealand Air Force DC6B, is held up with engine trouble. The Air Force plans to send a replacement engine by a Hastings aircraft leaving Whenuapai at 8 o’clock on Thursday morning. Alternative methods of bringing the teachers on to New Zealand are being investigated. The stranded party numbers about 40 passengers, comprising teachers and their families.—(P.A.) New Sewage Works The Minister of Health (Mr McKay) will be invited to open officially the new sewage treatment works of the Christchurch Drainage Board on October 27. If he cannot attend, the board will ask the Minister of Finance (Mr Lake). who is a former board member and chairman of the finance committee. The board agreed last evening that because of a possible danger to a large crowd without adequate supervision, admission to the official opening be by invitation only, but that the public should be invited to inspect the plant on the afternoon of the opening day. Speed Campaign Beginning on Friday the Transport Department, supported by the Christchurch City Council's traffic department, will conduct an “excessive speed week” during which microwave detectors will be put to maximum use. Traffic officers will particularly be on the look out for cases of speed too fast for conditions. This will include speeding at approaches to intersections, in limited speed zones and on busy open roads at night.