General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30761, 27 May 1965, Page 14

General News

Wasted Talent

When Mrs C. C. Holland, only woman member of the Canterbury Education Board, officially opened the New Zealand Education Officers’ Association conference yesterday, the Regional Superintendent of Education (Mr S. S. P. Hamilton) said her presence emphasised the “timid approach to giving women responsibility.” It was said a woman must have brains or beauty; she could not have both, Mr Hamilton said. Mrs Hamilton and others had proved that feminine charm was often combined with tremendous (sometimes ruthless) efficiency. Educational administration should not waste such talent. Express Delayed The express from Invercargill, due at Christchurch -at 7.20 p.m. was an hour late last night. The delay was caused by a derailment at the Middleton shunting yard. A loaded van was derailed at some points while entering the yard and this temporarily blocked the main line. The inter-island steamer was held and left Lyttelton at 9.19 p.m. Japanese Students Five Japanese students who have been working on dairy farms in the Auckland province will arrive in Christchurch next week. Advice of their arrival was received yesterday by the North Canterbury executive of Federated Farmers. The chairman of the provincial dairy section, Mr S. E. Chappell, with power to co-opt other members, accepted responsibility for making arrangements for their visit. Sunny Day After a five-degree frost at the airport had thawed yesterday, Christchurch basked in winter sunshine until late afternoon. A twodegree frost was registered at the Botanic Gardens. There was no wind until noon when a light north-easterly sprang up. At 9 a.m. the temperature at Harewood was 32 degrees and at noon it was 50 degrees. A maximum temperature of 52 degrees was recorded at the airport at 1 p.m. At 4.15 p.m. the temperature gauge on the Government Life building registered 52 degrees.

Lions’ Den Counsel for a traffic offender appearing in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday said he was unable to account for the action of his client in driving into the court yard while disqualified from driving. “He simply put his head in the lion’s mouth. The place was positively festooned with traffic officers,” he said. Offences In Park Police warnings were given to four men apprehended with shotguns and dogs in the Poulter river area of the Arthur's Pass National Park, the park board was informed at its annual meeting yesterday. This was one of several offences against, park regulations reported, A man convicted of shooting native oigeons close to the park boundary had been fined £l5. I Several persons had been apprehended picking flowers and vegetation and cautioned.