General News

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30393, 18 March 1964, Page 16

General News

Fast And Far

Counsel for a traffic offender charged in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with exceeding 30 miles an hour submitted in mitigation of the offence that the accused travelled 15,000 miles every year. Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.: It’s not surprising, at this speed. He fined the accused £4. Honolulu Hotels Two well-known Honolulu hotels, the Moana and the Surf Rider on Waikiki Beach, have been sold for 10.7 million dollars to a Japanese investor, Mr Kenji Osano, of the Kokusai Kogyo Company, one of Japan’s major; hotel and sight-seeing bus operators. Last year the same firm bought from the Sheraton Corporation of America, owners of the Moana and the Surf Rider, the Princess Kaiulani Hotel for 8.7 million dollars. The purchase contracts provide that the Sheraton Corporation will manage the three hotels for 10 years. Mr Osano has bought the hotels for investments, as an influx of Japanese tourists is expected this year after the release of restrictions on the yen.

Changing Too Fast

Auckland dairy licences are changing hands so rapidly that inspectors are having difficulty enforcing the standards set out on them, the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Board has been told. The total for the year ending March 31 was likely to be more than 300 out of a total of 840 dairies in the city.— (P.A.) Big Hole The 156 square foot hole outside the Post Office in Hereford street on Monday was part of the enlargement of the exchange leading cable man-hole. This will enable the Post Office to accommodate more ducts and to relieve existing congestion, and when the ducts are completed a new cable to Riccarton will be laid. The size of the manhole extension will be 10ft by eight feet.

Cloudy And Warm

It was overcast and warm in Christchurch yesterday. The maximum temperature was 67 degrees at Harewood at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and in the Botanic Gardens at 3 p.m. At 6 a.m. the temperature at Harewood was 47 degrees, rising to 66 degrees by midday. Between the 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. maximums, the temperature dropped one degrees, rising to 66 degrees by 65 degrees. A light easterly wind blew during the day. Lancaster Due A well-known World War II bomber, a Lancaster, will be flown into Christchurch tomorrow by the French Military Attache in New Zealand (Capitane de Fregate M. Veyrat). The French Military attache will spend the afternoon visiting the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Wigram before returning to Wellington on Friday. France is about the only nation still using Lancasters. Now it is flown as a maritime aircraft and is used for search and rescue operations out of Noumea, where the French Navy maintains a detachment of these planes. New Exchange The. new telephone exchange planned for Spencerville will be part of the Christchurch telephone network, Mr H. E. L. Pickering, M.P., said yesterday. Basic rentals for subscribers on the new exchange will be Christchurch rentals plus a loading fee of £1 7s 6d for residential telephones and £2 12s 6d for business subscribers. The exchange should be in service this year. Voyager Fund

In Canberra today RearAdmiral J. R. Reedy, commander of the United States Navy Antarctic support force, will hand a cheque for £856 (Australian) to the Chief of the Australian Naval Staff towards the distress fund for dependents of H.M.A.S. Voyager. The fund was opened by the United States Navy in Christchurch on February 18. Money has come from all Antarctic stations, from scientists as well as sailors. Eightytwo officers and men died when the Voyager, a destroyer, collided at night o' February 11 with the aircraft carrier H.MA.S. Melbourne, about 120 miles south of Sydney. Grant To School

The Christchurch Drainage Board is to have another look at its customary annual grant of £5O to Christchurch Technical College. Mr T. D. Flint told the board last evening that the school might be getting something to which other schools would be equally entitled. It was decided to refer the question to the finance committee. N.Z. Week In Fiji The Auckland Junior Chamber of Commerce is considering a New Zealand week in Suva later this year. The project has been discussed with Mr V. J. Singh, chairman of the Suva Trade Fair Committee, and Mr J. Morgan, a member of the committee. Mr Singh and Mr Morgan, who are in Auckland as guests of the New Zealand Easter Show, - M they welcomed the idea. -(PA.)

Churches’ Appeal The National Council of Churches’ Christmas appeal fund stood at £45,041 yesterday afternoon, it was reported from the council’s national office in Christchurch. The present total is more than £3,000 greater than that at the end of March, 1963, when it was £41,923.