General News

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30561, 2 October 1964, Page 12

General News

Garage Blown In Strong northerly winds on Wednesday at Petone blew a brick garage on top of a brand new £l4OO motor-car inside. The owner, .Mr D. Miller found the car roof, engine bonnet and boot stoved in. In spite of the damage he was able to drive the car yesterday. Gusts up to 64 miles an hour were recorded. Beating Rises Sorters at the Auckland Chief Post Office have been inundated by four times the normal volume of mail through people “beating” the new postage increases. With charges rising by up to 3d from yesterday, people queued on Wednesday at stamp counters and posting boxes to get their Christmas mail away at the old rates. More than half the extra volume of mail was greeting cards and calendars. —(P.A.) Lottery Profits The Auckland Chamber of Commerce has set up a committee to investigate the distribution of profits from the Mammoth lottery, after the Government’s decision to put profits from the second and future lotteries into its funds pool for general distribution. Council members felt that lottery profits should be applied to a limited number of purposes of general public benefit.—(P.A.) Wrong Mail Rate There was an error in the new postage rates published in “The Press” yesterday. Second-class air mail to Australia was given as “3d (unchanged).” This should have been listed as 4d. That rate includes unsealed Christmas cards. Antarctic Posts Major A. G. Hayter, leader of the New Zealand Antarctic Expedition, has been given the powers of justice of the peace, Coroner and Postmaster in the Ross Sea Dependency by the Governor-Gen-eral. The conferment of these powers is announced in the Gazette. Also appointed as an officer of the Government in the dependency is Mr M. Gray, who is given the powers of a postmaster. —(F.0.0.R.) Hot Water Bottles A worker at the Woolston factory of Dunlop, New Zealand, Ltd., Mr R. Cummings, had kept a personally tally of every hot water bottle he had moulded in about 15 years, said the factory’s general manager (Mr J. M. Randles) yesterday. “I am told that he has moulded 502,000 hot water bottles,” said Mr Randles. “He even worked out that if all the hot water bottles he had moulded were placed side-by-side, they would stretch from Christchurch to beyond Timaru.” Defence Exercise Twenty-four members of No. 81 junior n.c.o. course at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station, Wigram’, will carry out a three day exercise in passive and active defence in the West Melton range area this month. On one day they will move to Oxford for a day’s training. Flight Lieutenant P. E. H. Duffon will be in charge of the course. Students’ Health Because of reduced numbers of examinations in the second term, pending the appointment of a full-time medical director for the Canterbury University Student Health Service, it will not be possible to complete all medical checks requested this year. The new medical' director (Dr. K. E. Ussher) said yesterday that more than 100 students were likely to miss, but an effort would be made to fit in anyone particularly wanting an examination.