General News

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 10

General News

Police Dofft Week test jrdb wd wtog Ootf Ctub. Ml ted to swim Hie Hott river tin Me Mrifnnnyn nr into a Karori service station. Just as the window. So he had captured two more crietfnate M. W first week of work.—(P.A.) Antarctic Flight The united States Navy Super CoMteSetion which reonea w voraunurcn on stssasy wtwk a wtaaged engine left again for McMurdo Sound last eventag. When a cylinder Hew out the aircraft was six hours out on Ms fifirt to the Antarctic. Since its return to Christchurch its No. 4 engine has been replaced and yesterday the plane was tasted for three hours. Heavy Bookings Motet and particularly motel accommodation had been partinitarij scene twat the holidays, and present tadicaritone were that foe pressure would continue possibly until the and at February, the Canterbury Public Relations Officer (Mr E. G. Beckett) told a meeting at the Canterbury Progress League last evening, to the repcrt of the public relatione committee, Mr Beckett said the office had several tones been responeiHe far persuading oversees vtatiors to lengthen their stay in the country by travelling to the scenic attractions of the South Hand, and in two ernes, of booking for hunting trips from Christchurch. Refund A young girl with mi allergy to something in the water at the Mt. Eden swimming baths wiU be refunded 13s fid on a 15s ticket she bought for the season, the Mt. Eden Borough Council decided. The gui’a mother wrote to the council asking for the refund. The child made only three vietta to the pool. A doctor found the girl was allergic to something in the water and advised her to stop swimming there.

Fourth Time Lucky

It took a women four atteropta to get by car from New Plymouth to the TXwakina Highland sports just south of Wanganui at the week-end. The first attempt began in her own car at New Plymouth and ended at Eltham where the car brake down. The second involved a rental car which took her as far as Hawera. where she transferred to a relative's late-model car. The third ended at the foot of St. -'ohn’s Hill, Wanganui, when the car ran out of control with a broken tie rod and smashed a six foot by three foot hole in the side of a building. Suffering minor cuts, the woman and her two passengers arrived at the sports in a friend’s oar.

Aramoana Survey The rail road ferry Aratnoana will be withdrawn from service for annual survey after the completion of the Picton to Wellington voyage on Friday, June 7, the New Zealand Railways Department has annouoced. The vessel wiM resume normal satitafi* on Monday, June 17,