General News
Telephone Delay
Several hundred toll calls and even more local calls, particularly those beginning with the numbers 2, 3 and 8, were delayed for 15 minutes last night when a fuse blew in the battery supply to one of three floors in the central telephone exchange of the Christchurch Post Office. The fault occurred at 7.45 p.m. and it was rectified by 8 p.m. Warm Day The weather in Christchurch yesterday was cloudy and warm, with a light northwesterly wind. At 9 a.m. the temperature at Harewood was 66 degrees, rising to a maximum of 69 degrees at 2" p.m. The temperature at the Botanic Gardens was 65 degrees at 3 p.m. The temperature gauge on the Government Life Building at 4.30 p.m. showed 64 degrees.
Big Shoot Three Forest Service shooters will return to Auckland today from Motutapu Island, adjoining Rangitoto, after one of their most successful shoots. In two weeks they shot 1657 oppossums, 510 wallabies and 42 rabbits. The island was heavily infested : with opossums and wallabies, I but with few rabbits, said the • senior protection ranger for 1 Auckland. Mr K. Pardon. This was the first time Government shooters had been on Motutapu. which was farmed by the Lands and Survey Department. Opossums had stripped fruit trees growing near farmhouses on the island and had caused considerable damage to pohutukawa and poplar trees. —(P.A.)
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30892, 27 October 1965, Page 16
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230General News Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30892, 27 October 1965, Page 16
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