General News

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30630, 22 December 1964, Page 16

General News

Traffic Lights The traffic-control lights on the corner of Manchester street and Moorhouse avenue came into use yesterday afternoon. They were the second set of lights to be brought in within a fortnight, the other being on the corner of Colombo street and Bealey avenue. Another set almost ready is on the corner of Fitzgerald avenue and Worcester street. Wharf Work Waterfront work aboard ships at Lyttelton will cease at noon on Thursday. Christmas Eve, but vessels due to sail that day will work until 5 p.m. Christmas Day will be a holiday and on Saturday only fishing vessels will work. A fu’l holiday will be observed on Monday and normal work will resume on Tuesday. The handling of passengers’ cars and luggage, and mails aboard the inter-island passenger steamers, will continue throughout the holidays. Similar arrangements will obtain at New Year. Vi orks Holidays Freezing works in Canterbury will kill until midday on Thursday and they will resume work after the holidays on January 5. The secretary of the South Island Freezing Companies’ Association, Mr L. S. White, said yesterday that the day following New Year’s Day was a statutory holiday under the new industrial agreement and Anniversary Day, which fell on December 16, was taken between Christmas and New Year. Poisons Centre “We hope this centre is going to be a great life-saver in the future,” said the chairman of the Otago Hospital Board, Dr. John Fulton, at a function yesterday to mark the full operation of the National Poisons Information Centre at Dunedin Hospital. It is available to medical men from all over New Zealand and is a confidential service between doctors.—(P.A.) Panning On TV One of the few full-time gold seekers on the West Coast, Mr V. Joynson, is expected to appear on Channel 3 next Sunday. He will demonstrate gold panning. On Sunday Mr Johnson was filmed while working alongside his water chute at Goldsborough. He shovelled soil into a pan and swished it until the water had washed away all but the gold traces. The TV camera team came to the West Coast to capture scenes from the start of the Hokitika centennial. —(F.0.0.R.) Midsummer Day The sun today will reach its most southerly position in the sky and at noon will attain its highest altitude of the year over places in the Southern Hemisphere. The summer solstice is known as Midsummer’s Day, but in New Zealand it falls close to the beginning of the summer season instead of the middle. Dumped Again The naval tender Manawanui returned to Devonport at the week-end after recovering the ammunition dumped off the Hen and Chicken Islands, 12 miles from Whangarei. The ammunition has been dumped in the approved area. Divers will make a check in the new vear in case any ammunition has not been detected.— (P.A.) Giant Stingray A huge black sting ray, measuring about 10ft across and estimated to weigh at least 6001 b, was shot by two members of the Gisborne Underwater Spear-fishermen’s Club. Messrs W. J. Robertson and E. Knox, about half a mile out at Tatapouri. near Gisborne, on Sunday afternoon. An experienced spear-fisherman, Mr Robertson said that it was the biggest stingray he had ever seen.—(P.A.) Last Time On its last voyage to this country for the New Zealand Shipping Company, the 13.000ton liner Remuera arrived in Auckland yesterday with 350 passengers from Britain. About 280 will embark here before the ship sails for Sydney and Hong Kong tomorrow. In Hong Kong, the Remuera will be handed over to new owners, the Eastern and Australian Steamship Company, Ltd., and renamed the Aramac. It will continue to visit Auckland from Australia and Hong Kong.— (P.A.)