General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 14

General News

Doubly Painful The annual ball of the North Canterbury district of Young Farmers’ Clubs was an upsetting experience in more ways than one, according to the district’s annual report. Many of the 300 guests later suffered from a stomach complaint, the cause of which could not be found. The ball upset the organisers also when they found later the admittance fee did not cover the expenses of the experience. Half-Crowns There are no indications in Christchurch that half-crowns are being hoarded. A check on shops, coffee bars, taxis, tobacconists, and at a fruiterers yesterday failed to reveal any shortage of this coin. The official withdrawal of the 2s 6d pieces will begin next Tuesday, and extra 2s and 6d coins will be used to make up for the deficiency. All withdrawn 2s 6d coins in Christchurch and Canterbury will go to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Fresh, Not Frozen The road cartage of fresh meat, poultry and fresh fish has been exempted from the restriction which set allowable distances these goods could be transported in competition with the railways. A Press Association report from Wellington printed in “The Press” yesterday stated that the exemption applied to frozen meat and poultry. Last Resort Lack of accommodation is causing the Nelson Fire Board and firemen some embarrassment. In his quarterly report to the board the chief fire officer (Mr H. V. S. Oliver) said the women’s cloakroom was being used for sleeping quarters for two men. His report was received. —(P.A.) Educational Theory A theory that the basis of educational problems was to be found in the feeding pattern in infancy—“the peptic theory of education”—was light-heartedly advanced by the chairman of the Canterbury region of the New Zealand Post-Primary Teachers’ Association (Mr E. C. Evison) in Christchurch last evening. To members attending the annual conference he suggested that those who hungered for food in infancy would hunger for knowledge later on, while those who as infants were stuffed with plate after plate of warm mashed vegetables would be forever unreceptive to mental food.