General News

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30442, 16 May 1964, Page 12

General News

Street Appeal With some returns still to be counted, the Salvation Army’s annual street day appeal yesterday raised about £2OOO, which was slightly more than last year. Between 200 and 300 collectors were on the street corners from early in the morning collecting funds for the army’s social work.

Striking City Mr T. W. Cuff, the master in charge of Kings School, Sydney, Rugby team, which will play Christchurch Boys’ High School today, had an abrupt introduction to Christchurch yesterday. While walking down Manchester street he was struck by falling masonry. He suffered a cut over an eye and had to have his clothes dry-cleaned to remove the blood. Weak Tea The smallest item on the Sir John McKenzie Memorial Children’s Library balancesheet, £1 Us 8d for the librarians’ teas in the last year, caused discussion at the annual meeting of the library. Mr L. W. Ragg, of the Paparua County Council, expressed amazement at such a small sum. It must have been very weak tea, said the representative of the Riccarton Rotary Club (Mr A. J. Gainsford).

Riccarton Bush The Riccarton Bush Trustees are seeking Parliamentary authority to double the annual contribution they are empowered to collect from the City Council, the Riccarton Borough Council and the county councils of Waimairi, Heathcote and Paparua. At present the annual contribution for general maintenance and improvement must not exceed £2500. The trustees intend to introduce a local bill altering the amount to £5OOO.

Hospital Foundations The first test bore for the foundations of the first stage of the rebuilding of the Christchurch Hospital was completed yesterday, when the bore had been sunk to 100 ft. A series of bores will be sunk in the area. No results of the drilling have yet been given to the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Name For Park No name has been decided for the proposed new national park in the Mount Aspiring area, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Dunedin, will welcome suggestions, says “National Park News.’’ Blood From Darfield Sixty-two persons gave blood, five for the first time, when the mobile unit of the North Canterbury Blood Transfusion Service visited Darfield on Thursday. Last time the unit visited the town, in September last year, 73 donations were received. The service has now taken 593 pints of blood from 171 persons in Darfield in 11 visits. Near 500,000 The population of the Auckland metropolitan area should reach 500,000 by the end of the month, according to provisional figures issued by the Department of Statistics. It estimates that the population was 497,200 on April 1. This is an increase of 14,900 since April of last year. The department put the Auckland city population at 147,800, compared with 146,200 last year. New City The borough of Whangarei, having reached a population of more than 20,000, will become a city on May 21. Notice of this is given in the latest Gazette.