General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30741, 4 May 1965, Page 16

General News

Big Bar The largest public bar on the West Coast is being built at the Fox Glacier Hotel for the opening of the Haast Pass road on November 6. The bar will measure 3500 square feet. The present bar will become the house bar. (F.0.0.R.) Shops Passed In Two brick lock-up shops on a section of eight perches at 584-586 Colombo street, were passed ih at £12,000, at public auction. The auctioneer was Mr R. R. Livingstone. The shops have car-parking space at the rear with access off Welles street. Flights Delayed There was a delay of up to 20 minutes on all south-bound N. flights into and out of Christchurch airport yesterday. Strong head winds were the cause of the delays. Aircraft flying north, because of good tail winds, made faster than usual flying times. At 12.45 p.m., in the course of a routine inspection at Harewood, a Viscount was withdrawn from service because of an engine fault. Passengers who should have been on the aircraft were re-booked to Wellington on other flights through the afternoon. Bus Tolls A reduction of tolls on buses through the Christ-church-Lyttelton road tunnel will be sought. Although there had been reasonably good patronage of bus trips to Lyttelton, the service had shown a small Loss of £1550, said Mr E. J. Bradshaw, chairman of the Christchurch Transport Board’s finance committee, when it considered its revenue account for the last financial year yesterday. “Means must be found whereby this loss can be eliminated,” said Mr Bradshaw. “Lyttelton is not in our rating district, and we must not run the Lyttelton service at a cost which fails to meet expenses.” A deputation from the board would wait on the Road Tunnel Authority to see if the 6s-each-way toll on buses could be reduced to 6s fqr a return trip, it was decided. School Holidays School holidays at the end of the first term will begin next week-end for both primary and secondary schools. Both will close for a fortnight. Primary schools will resume on Monday, May 24, but some secondary schools will not resume until Tuesday, May 25. Brothers-In-Arms Lieutenant-Colonel H. McK. Reid, 0.8. E., has replaced Lieutenant-Colonel F. Reid, O. as Colonel Commandant of the Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps. They are brothers. Their Regular Army careers have been closely related. Colonel H. Reid, who joined the Army as a private in 1929, succeeded his brother as Director of Ordnance Services in 1957. He retired in 1960 to the reserve of officers when his brother was Colonel Commandant. Colonel F. Reid has now joined those on the retired list.