General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30738, 30 April 1965, Page 10

General News

Best Collectors

The counter-boxes which brought in most money to the Methodist Central Mission were in fish-and-chip shops, the mission superintendent (the Rev. W. E. Falkingham) told the mission board of management. “Banks are usually no good,” he added. Cadets Not Coming The visit to Christchurch in June of about 60 cadets from the United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs has been cancelled for economy reasons. The commander of the U.S.A.F. Military Transport Service detachment in Christchurch (Major M. Watkins) said yesterday the American Defence Department had decided to cancel all the academy’s overseas field study trips for 1965. Major Watkins added that no information had been received about next year. One-way Streets When Professor Gordon Buchanan visited Christchurch to report on traffic matters, it would be good to hear something from him on the idea of one-way streets in the city, said Mr L. W. Broadhead, president of the Automobile Association (Canterbury), last evening. The adoption of one-way si eets in Genoa, Italy, had not only meant a smoother flow of traffic but had reduced the accident rate. “It is a very good thing,” Mr Broadhead said. American Lectures Dr. J. G. A. Pocock, professor of political science at the University of Canterbury, will leave for the United States on May 8 to give a month’s course of lectures on the history of political thought at the invitation of the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago. Last year he accepted a similar invitation from Columbia University, New York.

Library Trial The Shirley Boys’ High School has been carrying out an experiment in providing library use at night. With the approval of the headmaster (Mr C. V. Gallagher) the school library has been opened for two hours on three nights a week. So far the experiment has not proved very successful. The largest number taking advantage of the extra library facilities at any one time was seven. The board of governors was told last evening that the experiment would continue. It was felt that once the facility became “socially acceptable” larger numbers would use it. Borrowing in school hours was good—at present 1500 to 2000 books were out on loan —an average of three books for each boy.

Best Seller

The Royal New Zealand Navy has a best seller—the navigational charts prepared and printed by its hydrographic branch. The Navy office reported today that in the year ended March 31, sales of charts of areas of the New Zealand coast reached a record 9755.—(P.A.)