General News

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30294, 21 November 1963, Page 14

General News

Busy Port Lyttelton was again busy yesterday, with considerable outward movement of shipping. Yesterday morning the Breeze, Hotunui and Maranui were idle, and the Canterbury Star and Kaituna were short manned. Among ships which sailed last evening was the China Navigation Company's motor-vessel Kweichow, which took 360 tons of tallow, another 83 tons of bulk tallow in the i ship's deep tanks, and 900 I bales of wool, all for Shanghai. The port is expected to | remain busy over the next. < few days. Anniversary Yesterday was the sixteenth wedding anniversary ;of the Queen. Her marriage ■to the Duke of Edinburgh ; took place at Westminster ! Abbey on November 20, 1947. | —(PA.) Postage Costs I The Postmaster-General is Ito be approached by the I Christchurch branch of the United Nations Association of New Zealand about the cost of postage to non-profit organisations. A resolution to this effect, and asking for a reduction in the rates was passed by the annual meeting of the association last I evening. “Too Tame” Annual meetings were once I regarded as great entertainment value where the airing of controversial opinions was looked forward to all year by members. One such man attended the annual meeting of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society last evening, and sat waiting for the fights. After two hours he got up, asked the meeting to excuse him I and left. “It is too tame I this year,” he said with disi gust. Hair-<lo Times The 60-minute limit on parking meters has allowed insufficient time for women I motorists to have their hair done, the City Council was told last evening. The Canterbury Master Ladies’ Hadr- ! dressers’ Association and an individual beauty salon complained to the traffic committee recently. As a result, the council agreed last evening that 34 meters on the west, side of Cambridge terrace between Cashel and Gloucester streets should be converted to twohour limits. Elusive Eggs The North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society will not be able to help the Takapuna City Council restock Lake Pupuke with white swans. Hopes that the society would be able to supply the council with eggs for hatching cygnets, have been dashed. The society has been unable to get any eggs even for its own use because the birds nest in places which cannot be reached by boat because of raupo and weed. Clay For Airport Clay, one of the first materials ever used by man, will be used again at the Mangere Airport. The floor of the airport operations building will be . made of prestressed clay’ planks, which the manufacturers claim are stronger than concrete, lighter, and have a greater fire resistance. A fire station in New Plymouth and a warehouse building in Newmarket are the only other projects in which this system, devised in Switzerland, has been used in New Zealand. Zoo Cow A Friesian house cow from Hawke’s Bay has been given to the Wellington Zoo to show city children where milk comes from. It has been purchased and provided by the Napier branch of the Hawke's Bay Junior Naturalists’ Club. The gift followed an appeal by the zoo director (Mr C. J. Cutler) who was amazed that so many city bred children believed milk was a synthetic substance which came in bottles. The cow will graze freely at the back of the zoo but on public holidays and busy days it will be put in a pen.