General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30846, 3 September 1965, Page 14

General News

Honorary Degree Dr. M. M. Burns, principal of Lincoln College, will deliver the oration when Mr A. D. Mclntosh, Secretary of External Affairs, receives the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Canterbury on Monday evening.- Dr M. P. Hartshorn will be esquire bedel bearing the university mace which will lead the academic procession of Professorial Board and University Council into the hall. Warm Weather Warm weather continued in Christchurch yesterday, after frosts of two degrees in the city an three degrees at Harewood. The temperature at 9 a.m. at Harewood was 40 degrees, rising to 58 degrees at noon and 65 degrees, the maximum, at 3 p.m. The 3 p.m. temperature at the Botanic Gardens was 68 degrees. The temperature gauge on the Government Life building recorded 66 degrees at 4.15 p.m Winds were light northeasterly in the morning, changing to fresh northwesterly later in the day.

Mountain Lodge A mountain house is being built by the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand on Mount Ruapehu. Ideally situated by a stream in the Whakapapa Valley within half a mile of the chateau, the lodge will have bunks, cooking and toilet facilities and a large lounge with an open fireplace and a veranda facing north. A building fund to pay for the lodge has now passed £2400 and funds are still being sought. The lodge will be named Ruapehu Lodge.— (P.A.)