General News

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30558, 29 September 1964, Page 16

General News

f rigate To Call H.M.N.Z.S. Pukaki will arrive at Lyttelton at 1.30 p.m. on Friday and remain until the following Wednesday on her way to take up weather station duties at latitude 60deg south. This duty is carried out jointly with the United States Navy to provide meteorological data for the American Antarctic flights. The Pukaki will load meteorological equipment while in Lyttelton. She is commanded by Lieutenant Commander M. N. Waymouth, R.N.Z.N., and has a complement of eight officers and 132 men. Last Word During his 24 hours in Sydney, Brian Simpson, manager of the New Zealand Olympic swimming team of two, took the pair to the A.M.P. building for a bird’s eye view. He heard the liftdriver’s patter, including the claims that it took 22 seconds, from doors-close to doorsopen, to ride to the top. Out came Mr Simpson’s Olympic stop-watch, which registered 25 seconds. “You want to adjust your speil—that took 25 seconds,” he said. “And you;” said the driver, “want to adjust your clock.”— (“Granny,” in the “Sydney Morning Herald.”) £8 Per 1001 b A four-year-old bullock which brought the record price of £B5 at the Stortford Lodge sale last week weighed 11001 b on the hooks. This is an average of just under £8 a hundred pounds, as against the schedule rate of £7 10s. A Hawke’s . Bay butcher bought the bullock, which was sold by Rawhiti station, Rissington.—(P.A.) Notifiable Diseases Four cases of infective hepatitis were notified in the Christchurch health district last week. The patients were a man in his thirties in Christchurch city, a man of similar age and a middle-aged woman in Waimairi county, and a young man in Paparua county. The only other case of a notifiable disease reported during the week was in a woman with puerperal sepsis in a Christchurch hospital. There was one industrial disease case, the patient being a middle-aged man in Kaiapoi borough who had dermatitis. Cool After Fog An early morning fog in Christchurch yesterday dispersed unevenly in different areas, some remaining until mid-morning. Skies cleared around noon and the temperature rt Harewood reached a maximum of 58 degrees at 3 p.m. By 4 p.m. it had dropped to 55 degrees. The Government Life building, at 4 p.m., showed 54 degrees. Winds were light to moderate and variable. Gale Lashes Ship Waves 20ft to 25ft high and winds of up to 30 knots buffeted the U.S.S. Mills as she steamed south of Campbell Island over the week-end to ocean picket duty mid-way between New Zealand and the Antarctic. There was a little minor damage. Yesterday conditions were becoming more settled with the waves down to only 10ft, according to a message received at the United States Navy base at Christchurch airport. Whitebait Whitebait is still not plentiful. Yesterday only 4001 b was auctioned in the fish market. Prices ranged from 12s to 13s 3d per lb. Killing Resumes Killing operations that had stopped at the Christchurch abattoir for two working days because of a strike resumed normally at 8 a.m. yesterday, said the managing director of Canterbury Bye-Products, Ltd, (Mr J. H. Sproston) yesterday. The company, he said, had not re-instated the man whose actions led to the strike. The man was convicted of the theft of offal from the company. Marking The Spot A plaque on the spot where Captain Nias and Major Bunbury raised the British flag to mark Maori cession of the South Island to the British in 1840 will be unveiled by the Chief of the Naval Staff (Rear-Admiral R. E. Washbourne) on Horahorakakahu Island, Port Underwood, on Saturday morning. The Marlborough regional committee of the Historic Places Trust has arranged the ceremony.— (P.A.)