General News

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29983, 19 November 1962, Page 10

General News

£9226 For Blind The 1962 “Mayor of Thorndon” campaign has raised £9226 17s 9d for the blind Mr W. Mitchell was declared “mayor,” his supporters raising £4153 4s 2d. Blind children in the Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay, Wanganui, Manawata, Wairarapa, Wellington, Nelson and Marlborough districts will each receive cash grants of £l5 from the campaign proceeds. Elderly blind persons in the Wellington area will receive cash grants of £lO each. — (P.AJ Flying Camp Fifteen members of the Canterbury Aero Club held a flying camp in Leamington Valley, west of Cheviot, at the week-end. Two Piper Cub aircraft were flown north on Saturday morning and several members travelled to the area by car. On Saturday night three more planes —two Piper Cubs and a Tiger Moth—left Harewood for the camp. Flying began at 6 a.m. yesterday and continued throughout the day. All the aircraft returned to base last evening. Members spent Saturday night under canvas. Flying activities were supervised by Mr B. Webb and the camp was supervised by the club captain (Mr G. Davidson). Harbour Attractions Hundreds of visitors were attracted to Lyttelton and its adjacent bays by brilliant sunshine yesterday and saw much to interest them. There were many ships in port, both coastal and overseas. The nearly-completed bridge over the railway for vehicular and foot traffic, the harbour reclamation scheme and the road tunnel face, as usual drew much attention. Corsair Bay was popular with bathers and launch traffic to Diamond Harbour was heavy. Puzzled Japanese A party of five Japanese, two of them members of Parliament, sat in an empty Christchurch hotel lounge yesterday afternoon drinking coffee they had taken from an urn on a nearby table. When they had almost finished, a waiter told them the ’flee they had drunk had been prepared for after dinner that afternoon coffee should have been ordered from the kitchen. and that 10s would have to be added to their bill. The Japanese, whose command of English is not extensive, found the incident puzzling. Sprightly Author Mr Lowell Thomas, the American news commentator and writer, yesterday played a "tight” round of golf with Rear-Admiral J. R. Reedy, the next Antarctic task force commander The previous three days Mr Thomas, aged 71, =pent ski-ing at Mount Cook An expert at the sport he several times had to wait for his guide to catch uip with him on some of the downhill runs Admiral Reedy said that for a man who a few years ago broke his hip in eight places on an expedition in Tibet Mr Thomas was a remarkably sprightly “young” man. North-Westerly A north-westerly change (about 10 p.m. yesterday in Christchurch brought gusts of 43 miles an hour and an average wind force of 30 miles an hour until the wind slackened after 11 p.m. Dust from road works in Rossall street was swirled up into a thick haze by the gusts and covered houses in the street Wood Collector Collecting pieces of wood is the hobby of Professor W F Robertson, formerly professor of food science at Michigan State University, who arrived at Auckland in the liner Canberra. He is editor of the monthly bulletin of the International Wood Collectors’ Society, which has 500 members, 14 of them in New Zealand. Professor Robertson hopes to visit all 14 during his stay and to add some New Zealand woods to his collection of 600 pieces.