General News

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30143, 29 May 1963, Page 14

General News

Guard* Outdone “Better than the Scots Guards,*' was how the captain of the touring English Rugby team (M. P. Weston) described a marching display by the girls of St. Joseph Maori Girls* College at Greenmeadows, Hawke’s Bay, yesterday morning. The 23 players and five officials of the team arrived at the college at about 10.30. They were greeted by a guard of honour of local schoolboy Rugby players and the team was presented with roses by the Mayor of Taradale (Mr A. W. Miller).—(P.A.)

Local Flood The Christchurch Drainage Board, the target for complaints in times of floods in the city, had its own-private flood recently. Cleaners forgot to turn off a tap on a water heater in the board’s planning division offices in Colombo street. A day passed before this was discovered and offices on floors below the division's offices were flooded, causing damage to stock. Under its public risk policy, a claim ha? been made on the board's insurers

Shepherd’s Find A page of “The Weekly Press” exhibited by Dr. L. C. L. Averill at the St. George’s Hospital theatre appeal meeting yesterday showed photographs of the opening of the hospital in February, 1928. The copy of the paper from which the page came was found recently by a shepherd in a hut on the property of Dr. Averill’s son-in-law, Mr P Fox, of Foxdown. Scargill, and passed on to Dr. Averill. (“The Weekly Press’* was an illustrated weekly published by the Christchurch Press Company, Ltd.)

Test Casualties Between 50 and 60 St. John ambulance men will be at Lancaster Park next Saturday to deal with any casualties that occur among the large crowd expected for the second Rugby test between New Zealand and England. Some nurses will also be present. There will be a casualty tent at the back of the embankment, near Talfourd place. Under No. 1 stand there will be another casualty station.

Local Loans Financial experts from the Christchurch City Council, the Drainage Board, the Transport Board, . the Harbour Board and the Hospital Board met yesterday to make sure nobody treads on anyone else’s toes in raising loan money. “It doesn’t look as if we will get in each others’ road much,” said the Deputy-Mayor, Cr. H. P. Smith, who was chairman: “Christchurch seems to be pretty stable lately from a financial point of view. There is not the tension in local body money matters that there was a few years ago.’’ First Essential “One tilling is essential in all operations—a patient,” Mr L. A. Bennett said at the opening of the St. George’s Hospital appeal yesterday “People have been known to operate on themselves, which dispenses with the surgeon, and at times operations have been conducted without anaesthetics or other aids; but there must always be a patient,” he said. “That is why we have put the welfare of the patient first in all our planning."

Industrial Injuries The North Canterbury Hospital Board treated 405 industrial accidents In April. These figures have helped bring the Labour Departmem to the conclusion that real training in health and hygiene begins in the home and at school. “Until we get this real training we will not approach an acceptable standard of accident prevention,” said the department's district superintendent, Mr C. P. Collins, yesterday. Did Not Know Charged with driving a vehicle other than specified on his driving licence, a defendant in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday was asked how he pleaded. “Ignorance.” he replied, “I am afraid I cannot accept that plea,” said Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M The plea was changed to not guilty, and later changed again to guilty.