General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30768, 4 June 1965, Page 12

General News

“V eil And Truly” When the Minister of Education (Mr Kinsella) laid the foundation stone of the new student union building at Ham yesterday he received prolonged applause. He performed much more than the usual perfunctory ceremony. He mixed and spread the mortar, checked his levels, tapped the stone first with the trowel and then with a hammer, and finally wiped off surplus mortar with a workmanlike flourish. The architect (Mr F. M. Warren) said he would not touch the stone again. The Chancellor of the University of Canterbury (Mr C. H. Perkins) informed the audience that Mr Kinsella had learned his job in the Royal New Zealand Engineers. “I learned under ‘Bull’ Hanson,” Mr Kinsella told reporters. June Ducklings A duck, with nine newlyhatched ducklings, was seen in Oxford terrace, near the Plunket Society’s building, yesterday. When food was left on the river bank, the seagulls, normally first in, stood politely back, and the mother fought off other ducks, while the ducklings ate in peace. Sun Reappears After four days of rainy, overcast weather, the sky cleared at intervals yesterday and the sun reappeared. Temperatures were slightly warmer. The maximum at Harewood was 53 degrees, recorded at midday and at 2 p.m. Other recordings were 47 degrees at 9 a.m. and 52 degrees at 3 p.m. At the Botanic Gardens the temperature was 54 degrees at 3 p.m., and the same figure showed on the Government Life building at 4.15 p.m. There was a light south-west wind Academic Dress Invitations to the founda-tion-stone ceremony of the new students’ union at Ham stipulated academic dress. Fewer than usual complied but wished they had. It was bitterly cold in the shade of the big concrete beams of the building and those in academic robes were warmer than those in street clothes. Those dressed informally turned puce and then purple with the cold, matching some of the nearby robes. Personal Items Judge Norman Smith, Judge of the Waiariki District Maori Land Court, Rotorua, for 40 years, will retire on June 30 —(P.A.) Mr J. R. Inder, of 340 Armagh street, last night advised his parents by telephone from London that he had passed his final examinations to qualify as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr Inder has been studying in London for the last two years.