General News

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30129, 13 May 1963, Page 14

General News

Pupils Visit Sydney A party of New Zealand schoolchildren arrived in Sydney by air from Auckland today to spend a week’s educational holiday in the city. The 22 girls and 11 boys, who attend Whakatane High School, brought the number of New Zealand students now holidaying in Sydney to almost 200. An accompanying teacher. Mr W. E. Bruce, said the party hoped to "adopt” an Australian school. “We hope this trip is the forerunner to others and perhaps we may be able to have a reciprocal arrangement with visiting during holidays.” he said. The children have saved with their parents’ help to make the trip.—Sydney. May 12. Game Abandoned A senior game in the Galatea Rugby sub-union competition at Murupara on Saturday was abandoned by the referee because of crowd encroachment on to the field. Mr P. Briscoe, the referee, called the game off in the middle of the second spell when the score was three-all. Earlier there had been five hold-ups while the referee and touch judges tried to keep the crowd behind the safety fence. Finally Mr Briscoe gave spectators 30 seconds to.retire and when they did not move with sufficient speed he declared no side. — (P.A) Civics In Schools Cjvics as a separate subject should be included in the School Certificate course, the twelfth annual northern regional conference of New Zealand Junior Chambers decided on Saturday at Takapuna. The Auckland chapter proposed the Government be urged to do this to encourage the interest of young people in community affairs. The subject would embrace the structure of local government. Parliamentary government. public speaking, meeting procedure and related matters. The chapter's remit will .be discussed at the national convention. —(P.A.) Theatre “Annexed” Auckland University students today annexed the Hamilton Founders’ Memorial Theatre as a “puppet state” to the “Duchy of Nutzemburg” which yesterday was established in Auckland, when they declared the university had seceded from New Zealand. A telegram has been sent to the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) declaring the independence of the cast - of the students’ revue, “Nuts in May,” in the theatre for *the duration of their occupation. The occupationary forces have given their undertaking to withdraw on Sunday.—(P.A.) Pram Pushers Seven members of the Victoria University Harrier Club left Wellington at 9.10 p.m. on Saturday pushing a bathtub on . pram wheels and arrived in Palmerston North about 3.50 p.m. yesterday. The only incident on the trip occurred about two miles from their starting point when the bath-tub got out of control and they lost a tyre. The last 50 miles was made by three members of the team, the remainder travelling through to Palmertson North by cart—(P.A.) South Express Late The late arrival of the Invercargill-Christchurch express caused the inter-island steamer Maori to sail nearly two hours late on Saturday evening. The locomotive of the expess developed a fault in its headlamp near Ashburton. Temporary repairs were carried out and the train went to Dunsandel where a relief engine was ■waiting. It arrived in Christchurch at 9.10 p.m.—106 minutes late. The Maori sailed at 10.14 p.m. Unwise Cablese must rank as one of the world’s quaintest languages. Evolved to save words, and therefore money, in telegrams and cables, it is the regular form of communication between foreign correspondents and their London editors. It a recent broadcast, the 8.8. C. Commonwealth correspondent. Lionel Fleming. suggested that there was a certain old-fashioned charm about the use of “canst?” “wouldnst?” and so on instead of the more expensive “can you?" or “would you?” The invaluable prefix “un" did duty for any kind of negative. The classic exchange of cablese—“l am afraid it is a cliche to all journalists—concerns a lazy correspondent who received the cable: ‘Why unnew® query.’ Cynically, he cabled back: ‘Unnews good news.’ His office replied: ‘Unnews unjob.’ The correspondent’s final cable was too rude to be reproduced.” said Fleming. “He lost the job anyway!"