General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 20

General News

Scouts’ Visit

More than 500 Australian boy scouts will visit New Zealand in January next year to take part in a jamboree organ, ised by the New Zealand Boy Scouts’ Association. It will be the largest contingent of Australian scouts to travel abroad. The jamboree will begin in Wellington on January 5 and last eight days. During their stay in New Zealand the Ausralian scouts will be given opportunities for travel.— (P.A.) Warm Day Christchurch had a warm sunny day yesterday. Skies were clear, and the wind was a light easterly. The temperature at Harewood at 6 a.m. was 33 degrees, but this quickly rose to 50 degrees by 9 a.m. and reached a maximum of 61 degrees at 2 p.m. At 3 p.m. the temperature at the Botanic Gardens was 59 degrees, and at 4.15 p.m. the temperature gauge on the Government Life building registered 58 degrees. 400 To Tour Base Four hundred representatives of 25 business groups in Christchurch will this evening tour the National Airways Corporation’s engineering workshops and maintenance base at Christchurch Airport. It will be the largest group ever to go through the base at one time. The branch manager, Mr J. E. Davies, said the response to invitations was surprising in that total acceptances reached 600. “This number is far too big to escort round the place, so we had to cut it back to 400,” he said. First Aid Lessons As their contribution to Army Week, men of the 3rd Field Ambulance unit and the Medical Corps depot at Burnham Military Camp will today give demonstrations of first aid and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation techniques at four supermarkets in the Christchurch metropolitan area. In addition the Band of the New Zealand Army will give another lunch-hour concert in Victoria square from 12.15 p.m. to 1.15 p.m. No Shortage This time last year, power supply authorities were asked to reduce load because South Island power storage was down to 76m units, said the engineer-manager (Mr S. E. Slatter), at yesterday’s meeting of the Central Canterbury Electric Power Board. At present, 360 m units were held, Benmore having added 828 m units to maximum storage. Building Delayed Another Christchurch suburban department store has been delayed by current building restrictions. In his address to the annual meeting yesterday of New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd. the chairman of directors (Mr G. Gibson), said that retail development at New Brighton had been delayed. Because of the restrictions, the building permit had been suspendedChristmas Calls The Post Office is expecting a huge volume of overseas telephone calls on Christmas Day. Calls are likely to exceed 2000—about four times as many as normally recorded at the international exchange in Auckland. The Post Office suggests that people who intend making overseas calls on Christmas Day should lodge their bookings as soon as possible.