General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30897, 2 November 1965, Page 18

General News

Army Protocol It was bitterly cold at Timaru yesterday, and New Zealand Army personnel shivered more than most, dressed as they were in summer uniform. “Rain, hail or snow, summer uniform is .e--quired to be worn on the first of November,” commented a Regular Force soldier, whose heavy, rain-soaked greatcoat barely concealed the bottoms of his shorts.— (F.0.0.R.) Cold Change Warm morning temperatures dropped sharply when a light north-easterly wind changed to the south-west about 10 a.m. yesterday in Christchurch. The wind change brought heavy rain to the city. The temperature at Harewood at 9 a.m. was 62 degrees dropping to 53 degrees at noon. By 3 p.m. it was 47 degrees at Harewood, and 50 degrees was recorded at the Botanic Gardens. The temperature gauge on the Government Life building registered 49 degrees at 4.15 p.m. Milk Tests Of 82 samples tested by the Health Department in September, 13 failed the solids-not-fat test, the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board was told yesterday. Ten of them failed by 0.1 per cent and three ailed by 0.15 per cent. Immigration The textile industry in New Zealand could not hope to take full advantage of its great financial stake and improved manufacturing techniques unless it had greater access to labour, Mr L. H. Stevens said at yesterday’s conference of the New Zealand Textile and Garment Manufacturers’ Federation at Hanmer Springs. The con ference agreed that it would support the Manufacturers' Federation moves for greater immigration. Dysentery A family of three in Waimairi County had bacillary dysentery last week, according to the Health Department’s weekly list of notifiable diseases in the Christchurch Health District. There were also three cases of infective hepatitis —a woman in her thirties in Kaiapoi borough, a teen-age girl in the city, and a young girl in Waimari County.