General News

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30602, 19 November 1964, Page 16

General News

Test Fishing A fishing boat, the Moray Rose has been bought by P. Feron and Son, Ltd., for trying new fishing techniques. The Moray Rose is 53ft long and is powered by 220 h.p. diesel engines. It was built in 1955 and has refrigerating equipment. It was owned by Mr J. G. Sutherland of Timaru. The boat will be renamed the Rosalind and will fish off Timaru and in the Canterbury Bight. If successful, the results of experiments with new techniques will be made available to other fishermen. Inangahua College The secondary department of the Reefton District High School will be upgraded to a full high school next year and called Inangahua College. The opening roll is expected to be 200. Easy In Dollars The Riccarton High School Board voted strongly for “round figures” in its new school fees yesterday but the chairman (Mr M. C. Butler) at one stage advocated a sum of £3 15s. “It will be easy in dollars” he said amid laughter. Fine Day Christchurch enjoyed fine weather yesterday, with a clear sky and temperatures in the 60’s from 9 a.m. until late afternoon. The maximum temperature was 63 degrees. There was a moderate southerly wind until 11 a.m., when it changed to a moderate north-easterly. Japanese Climb Range A party of seven Japanese climbers from the Hosei University left Mount Cook for Queenstown yesterday after eight days in the Mount Cook National Park, where they climbed the 8600 ft Sealy Range. “No Selection” New Zealand had only two animals where there had been no selection with the parent stock, said Mr C. Stokell, at the 100th annual general meeting of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society last evening. One animal, he said, was the human being and the other was trout. Fairs Unfair “Fairs are unfair,” said Mr M. C. Butler, chairman of the Riccarton High School Board, to his members yesterday when fund-raising was being discussed. Mr Butler said the school had raised large sums by fairs but a lot of the success came from gifts of goods and hard work by a few. Many people bought, say, £3 worth of goods and called that a gift of £3 to the school.

P.S.S.C. Physics Physical Sciences Study Committee physics (called P.S.S.C.), based on new American methods of teaching and now used in many sixth forms in New Zealand, will be taught in some fifth forms next year. The Education Department will include optional questions on this method in the physics and general science papers for School Certificate next year. Waipara Fishing The 100th annual general meeting of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society last evening decided to recommend tr the council that 1000 tagged fish be released in the upper reaches of the Waipara river each year for the next five years.