General News

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29913, 29 August 1962, Page 12

General News

Yes, We Have None An anonymous letter signed “Kit,” appealing to the “Captian" of the African Reefer not to waste the bananas, has been received by the editor of “The Press.”, The letter reads: “Dear Mr EDitor or Captian We kids like bananas and some one has worked hard to get them here Dont let them waste We are told waste and strikes are bad If the men dont want to unload them charge us 6d to see over your ship and dont look wen we go past the bananas and you wont have to unload them and we may get more for 6d than some things at the fair Yours 1 Kit.” Taxi-Training Included in the experience ’ and training that Mr A. J. , Dickey had as a taxi driver I was a certificate of first-aid, which included midwifery, I said Mr R. A. Young at a ■ hearing before the Transport Licensing Appeal Authority ' (Judge K. G. Archer) yes- ! terday. Mr Dickey added that he had assisted with the , birth of two children in his taxi. Pine Pollen Quantities of a fine yellow powder found in rain water and round the rims of . puddles caused considerable interest in Christchurch yesterday. The director of the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Dr. E. J. Godley) said it was pollen from wind pollinated trees which produced large amounts at this time of the year. Most of it would come from Pinus radiata trees, but poplars and cypress trees could also be partly responsible. Pollen gets into rain water every year about this time. School Reports The Christchurch Postprimary Schools' Council will send on to individual school boards a request from the Canterbury School Committees’ Association that they should not insist on form I reports with applications for enrolment. The association said a written assurance that the applicant was seeking entry to only one school should suffice as a safeguard against dual applications. Spreydon Post Office Approval had been given to plans for a new post office at Spreydon yesterday morning, said the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Kinsella) in Parliament last night when the estimates for Post Office working expenses were discussed. In reply to Mr M. A Connelly (Opposition, Riccarton), Mr Kinsella said Sockburn post office building tenders were to be called later this year. Planning of ' this office depended on the ' Ministry of Works, he said.— . (F.O.P.R) Farewell To Ship ; Few ships receive a send- . off from Wellington like that . given the new Shaw Savill 1 liner, Northern Star, when ' she sailed for Auckland at 9 pm last night. About 2000 , shouting, waving people ' crowded Kings Wharf to watch her. A Maori choir sang “Now is the Hour” and . cheers from the ship’s crowded decks were answered by 1 the throng on shore. As she swung out into the stream . some people climbed the wharf cranes and waved torches.—(P.A.)