General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 14

General News

Give It Away “No nassella, but just about everything else,” said the chairman of the Mackenzie County Council (Cr. B. J. O’Neill), reporting to the Canterbury Nassella Tussock Co-ordinating Committee in Christchurch yesterday. He said the Mackenzie County would be pleased to hand over some snow, as there was up to a foot of it over the whole area. 12-Degree Frost After a frost of 12 degrees at the airport, the weather in Christchurch yesterday was fine and sunny. At the Botanic Gardens there was a frost of nine degrees. Temperatures remained cold throughout the day with a maximum of 47 degrees recorded by the Harewood Weather Office at 2 p.m. and at 3 p.m. The temperature at 9 a.m was 31 degrees, and by noon it was 41 degrees. At 3 p.m the Botanic Gardens recorded 49 degrees, and the Government Life building registered the same temperature at 4.15 p.m. 35,999 Laughed One car driver yesterday must have been in a great hurry' to get into Lancaster Park to see the Springboks olay the New Zealand Junior team. After 25 minutes’ play in the first spell, a park official broadcast, twice, over the loudspeaker system for the driver of a car which had been parked and locked with its engine running in a street close to the park. The crowd of 36,000 enjoyed the joke. Licence Awaited The carriage of Bluff oysters by road to Christchurch would not commence until the necessary goods service licence was issued by the Transport Department, Mr A G Williams, general manager of C. Williams and Son, the contractors converned, said yesterday. Mr Williams was commenting ■on a Press Association message from Invercargill which said the oysters were expected to be carried by road this Sunday. Mr Williams said the licence could arrive “any day,” but nothing would be done until it was received. Controllers “1 want to thank the Government—l do not have much to thank it for—for its imagination in deciding to call the building controller a programmer.” said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Nordmeyer) when he addressed the Canterbury branch of the Economic Society yesterday There were some who would sav that a controller bv any other name would smell the same, said Mr Nordmever “I am sure that neople who object to building controlover £3o.ooo—won’t have the same objection if the control 's carried on not by a control'er but by a programmer,” he said. More Firemen An increase of 10 in the strength of the Christchurch Metropolitan Fire Brigade, making the permanent staff 110, has been approved by the Fire Service Council. The additional men are being taken on to prepare for manning the new Bryndwr station, and will be recruited to start work in October. Order Of St. John The Christchurch subcentre of the St. John Ambulance Association has decided to subsidise the offerinn made at the st. John's Day service bn June 27 This is in honour of the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the Order of St. John in New Zealand. The money will be sent to the Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem, which is run by the order.