General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30682, 23 February 1965, Page 12

General News

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The Canterbury University Council yesterday refused a request from the Christchurch City Council for a contribution to the Winston Churchill Memorial Fund. “This is public money Government money—with which we are dealing,” said the Chancellor (Mr C. H. Perkins), “and we have always decided that it is not our privilege to make special grants.” Fair Weather Light, variable winds blew in Christchurch yesterday, and a maximum temperature of 63 degrees was registered at Christchurch Airport at 3 p.m., when the temperature at the Botanic Gardens was 62 degrees. At 9 a.m. at Harewood the temperature was 54 degrees, and at noon it was 59 degrees. There was some cloud most of the day. The temperature shown on the Government Life Building was 62 degrees at 4 15 p.m. Price Reduced The retail price of sweetened condensed milk has been reduced by id a tin by a price order issued by the Price Tribunal, which came into force on Friday. In the four main centres and 15 other cities and boroughs the new price for 14oz tins will be Is 10[d, and in other centres Is lljd. Previous prices were Is lid and 2s. The price of unsweetened condensed milk in lloz tins is unchanged at Is 2d and Is 2]d. Boy Cooks Six boys from Forms 3 and 4 at Takapuna Grammar School are taking cooking as a subject this year. The headmaster (Mr W. 1. F. McLeod) said yesterday the school usually offered cooking as an alternative to woodwork and metalwork to those boys who wanted to take the subject. A small group every year took cooking for two periods a week with the girls’ class. —(P.A.) Good Fishing Game fishing in Mayor Island waters was good at the week-end with 11 game fish being taken, including a 4611 b thresher and two striped marlin. Mr B. Jarvie, of Auckland, caught the 4611 b shark. Mr R. Queneau, of the Virgin Islands, United States, caught a 1031 b mako shark and a 601 b kingfish to make his catch three fish in three days. -(P.A.) Fuseli Drawings The Auckland City Council parks and library committee has approved the purchase of 37 drawings by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) for the Auckland Art Gallery at a cost of £l5OO. The collection is owned by a Dunedin man. In a report to the committee, Mr P. A. Tomery, the former director of the art gallery, said the collection was one of the largest in the world.—(P.A.) Labour Short Labour was short at Lyttelton yesterday and at 8 a.m. an additional 135 men were required to fill vacancies. In addition, a shortage of railway waggons hindered work with the result that at 5 p.m. several discharging vessels were idle. These were the Silverleaf, Waimate, Kweichow, Shoan Maru and Hotunui. The newly arrived Awanui discharged with road transport last evening. Loading vessels were not affected.