TELEVIEWERS’ SOCIETY

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30115, 26 April 1963, Page 21

TELEVIEWERS’ SOCIETY

4300 Members In Canterbury

Cbe*per inaurance, a legal scheme and a means of expressing maw viewpoints about programme* were services offered by the Canterbury Televiewers’ Association, which now had more than 4300 members, said the acting-eecrettary (Mr J. M. McKenae. at Christchurch). The association had now been registered as an incorporated society. The annuei stfoeoriptio® was 2s ad. The annual meeting would be head late next month. The association had 10 cases Ln which members alleged over-charging for repairs, breaches of time-pay-ment agreements and failure to fulfil conditions of purchase and servicing contracts. The cases had been referred to a solicitor, retained by the association. Mr McKenzie said that the association had written to She Industries and Commerce Department about inetanoes of alleged exorbitant profit-making by retailers, and had also requested the department to investigate means of imposing some reasonable rate for repair

changes. “We think that a questionnaire on programmes

will give us mass opinions which will be most valuable to the N.Z.8.C.,” Mr McKenr.e aaui.

The breeding habits of fish appear to be affected by the prevalence of sunspots, according to research done in Iceland. In years when the sun is largely free of spots, cod, herring and river salmon tend to spawn well. Lumpfish were found to proliferate best when the sun is spotty.