General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30762, 28 May 1965, Page 10

General News

Quid Pro Quo Strongly criticised by the Shirley Boys' High School board for refusing to grant £35 as half the cost of stationery used in preparing teaching material on a new scheme of mathematics being tried in four Christchurch high schools, the Education Department has advised the Papanui High School board (another participant) that assistance is given in another way. A letter received by the Papanui board yesterday said there was “nothing in policy” which enabled such a grant to be made but, as the co-operating schools were doing “exceedingly valuable” work on the scheme, an allowance of “two weekly half days” (teachers’ time) had been made to each school. This totalled £92, or £23 for each school.

Brash Australians Australians were regarded in England, the United States and Europe as “being brash and somewhat slick,” said an Australian international export consultant, Mr A. Smallman, at an export seminar in Christchurch yesterday. He thought that being a New Zealander by birth would greatly ease the way for those who wished to export to these areas. “I think they regard New Zealanders with greater affection than Australians,” he said. Exports

In the last two years, New Zealand had exported more than 1000 dishwashing machines and more than £lOO,OOO worth of home freezers to Australia, said the vice-pre-sident of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation (Mr J. R. Maddren) He was speaking on the export successes of New Zealand manufacturers, at an export seminar in Christchurch. In spite of keen competition, he said, other product successes included air and oil filters for motor vehicles, gum boots, paper surgical masks, agricultural chemicals and many others.

From N.Z. Mistakes

Tasmania is studying New Zealand results in the hydatids testing of dogs. Members of Parliament who urged compulsory testing were told by the Minister for Agriculture, Mr A. C. Atkins, that the Government had sent an officer to New Zealand and as a result of information he had gathered it had been decided not to rush into the scheme. “We decided to learn from their mistakes,” he said, "and decided that the best way to start control was on a voluntary basis.”—(Hobart, May 26.) Cold Day

There was no frost in Christchurch yesterday morning, but the temperature at 9 a.m. was only 42 degrees, rising to a maximum of 48 degrees by 3 p.m., according to the weather office at Harewood. The Government Life building clock registered 50 degrees about 1 p.m. The day was calm with overcast skies and a smoke haze hung over the city all day.