General News

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30535, 2 September 1964, Page 16

General News

Half Lady *How do you fix a lady that yoi sawed in half?” asked five-year-old Stephen Pickup, of 24 Rogers street, Waltham, yesterday. He handed his inquiry in to the New Zealand Industries Fair management. Via “Holioak” A friend or perhaps a fan, has written from India to the touring hockey player, S. Laxaman, and addressed his letter “c/o. Holioak, The Prime Minister (Government House), New Zealand.” The letter bearing the Parliament Buildings postmark and again forwarded “c/o Touring Indian Hockey Team” has now reached Christchurch where it is being held by the secretary of the Canterbury Hockey Association (Mr R. W. Harris) until September 12 when the Indian team arrives in the city for the second test against New Zealand.

Crayfishing The trawler Zealandia, owned by Fish Processing, Ltd., of Christchurch, is to go crayfishing on the West Coast. Formerly owned by the Fish and Ice Company, Ltd., of Tauranga, the Zealandia came to Lyttelton in July, to fish out of Lyttelton for her new owners. She is at present on the slip at Lyttelton where she is being reinsulated and fitted out with new compressors, new evaporators and a larger condenser. Her freezer capacity will be about four tons. Full Dress Fire Residents and firemen, some in dress suits, fought a fire at Hakataramea for more than two hours at the end of a ball held recently to mark the centenary of the Kurow Post Office. The fire began in a shed on Mr W. Lyon’s property and spread to a belt of trees.—(F.O.O.R.) Lull Before Storm Some preliminary work in preparation for the payment of 6s a week extra to most pensioners, announced on Saturday by the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake), was carried out on Monday in the Christchurch office of the department; but not much more could be done until detail instructions arrived as to the “how and when” of payment, the district registrar (Mr E. B. Pyne) said yesterday. Most of the staff would be working overtime after the instructions arrived, he added. First Catches The whitebait season began well at Kairaki, said the caretaker of the Kairaki camping ground (Mr J. Woods) yesterday. The first men out caught about a quarter of a pound each till the stormy weather prevented fishing. About 15 whitebaiters have moved into the camping ground where six families were already in residence for the school holidays. Mr Woods said that the Waimakariri Sailing and Power Boat Club was catering for campers by extending the boat ramp as far as the boatshed past the new protection works. Expert Forecast Wellington’s airport passenger traffic already exceeds forecasts made for 1978. Overseas experts retained for planning the airport predicted 616,000 passengers by 1978. The figure for the year ending March, 1964, reached 641,000. The Mayor (Mr Kitts) gave these statistics as an example of the pace of municipal growth defying expert forecast, when he welcomed local body employees to a staff training course at Victoria. University of Wellington yesterday.—(P.A.) Czech Anniversary “The Slovak national uprising of which the twentieth anniversity is being celebrated in Czechoslovakia,

was the culmination of the resistance of the Slovak people to Fascism and war,” said the Charge d’Affaires of Czechoslovakia, Mr J. Tisler„ in Wellington yesterday. “Patriotic feeling engulfed the whole nation,” said Mr Tisler. “Sixty thousand soldiers and 15,000 partisans fought and the whole nation co-operated.”—(P.A.) £25,000 So Far Public contributions to the March of Medicine appeal being conducted by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians have reached £25,483. Excluding the amount raised by the physicians themselves, the national target is £60,000. —(PA.)