General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30895, 30 October 1965, Page 14

General News

New R.N.Z.A.F. Brevet Seven officers who have recently completed a course at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Wigram will, at a parade next week, become the first recipients of a new electronic officers’ brevet. The electronic course, the first of its kind held by the R.N.Z.A.F., was made necessary by the purchase of newer and more complex aircraft. The station commander (Group Captain J. D. Robins) will make the presentations. Fine Weather The weather in Christchurch yesterday was fine with a clear sky and a moderate north-easterly wind. The temperature at 9 a m. was 54 degrees, rising to 58 degrees at noon, and to the maximum, 60 degrees, at 2.30 p.m. The 3 I p.m. temperature at Harewood was 59 degrees, and at the Botanic Gardens, 60 degrees. The Government Life building’s temperature gauge showed 57 degrees at 4.15 p.m. Stamp Display Five boys in Dallington will today hold a stamp exhibition which, they say, will in elude everything to interest young philatelists. The boys have spent two months preparing for the exhibition, the proceeds of which will be given to charity. The exhibition will be held in a marquee in the garden of 48 Halberg street, Dallington. It will be open to the public at 2 p.m. Dredge Scrapped Timaru’s old dredge, No. 350, has been reduced to scrap. “The dredge has gone,” the chairman (Mr E. W. D. Unwin) told the annual meeting of the Timaru Harbour Board yesterday. The engineer (Mr B. W. Charman) said' "There is a truckload and a half of scrap left.” As recommended the board will complement the contractor (Pacific Scrap, Ltd.), on the expeditious manner in which it demolished the hulk, and for leaving the site in such good order. —(F.0.0.R.) £11,657 Bequest A former headmistress of Welington Girls’ College has left £11,657 to the Baptist Union. This was disclosed at the union’s annual assembly yesterday. The headmistress was Miss F. E. Kershaw of Wellington. The £11,657, the residue of her estate, will be used to support the union’s theological college in Auckland, the Maori board, and homes for the aged.—(P.A.) Fishing Rivers The Waiau and the Huntnui rivers were slightly discoloured at 9 a.m. yesterday, according to the North Can terbury Acclimatisation Society’s report on the fishing rivers. The Waimakariri was slightly discoloured, but the Selwyn and the Rakaia were clear and fishable.