General News

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30930, 10 December 1965, Page 16

General News

The Truth When a boy aged Bine entered the witness box in the Magistrate’s Court, Wesb port, to give evidence in a criminal case his head barely readied the rail. The Court orderly dispensed with the Bible and instead asked the boy if he knew bow to tdl th* truth. The reply war “No.” After the laughter had subsided the boy promised the Magistrate (Mr G. A Mehotls) that he would tell thwtruth.—(FD.OJL)

Free Calling About 900 Diamond Barboor telephone subscribers would come into the Christchurch free-calling system tomorrow morning, the regional engineer of the Post OSes (Mr a W. Wilkinson), said yesterday. To call a Diamond Harbour number Christchurch subscribers must use the prefix 294, followed by the Diamond Harbour number. Subscribers in Diamond Harbour telephoning into the Christchurch network will have to dial 1, and then the required number. Sunny Morning After a sunny morning the weather in Christchurch yesterday turned cool and cloudy with a wind change to the south-west in the late afternoon. A maximum temperature of 73 degrees was recorded at the Weather Office at Harewood at 1 p.m. The temperature at Harewood at 6 am. was 57 degrees and this rose to 61 degrees at 9 a.m. and then to 69 degrees at noon. With the wind change the temperature dropped to 64 degrees at 3 p.m. and then to 61 degrees at 4.15 p.m. The temperature in the Botanic Gardens at 3 p.m. was 62 degrees. The temperature gauge on the Government Life building recorded 63 degrees at 430 p.m. Jet Water-Taxi

A new jet water-taxi is nearing completion and will be running at Akaroa early in the New Year. The hull was built by a North Island firm and is now being fitted out in Christchurch. This craft will have a 220 h.p. marine engine coupled to a three stage Hamilton jet unit. The carrying capacity will be seven adults, with a maximum speed of 45 knots. The hull incorporates the deep-vee design.

Dysentery Dr. L. F. Jepson, the Christchurch Medical Officer of Health, said yesterday that 24 of the 70 samples taken from suspected cases of dysentery in Malvern County had proved positive. There were more results to come, and it was too early yet to say whether the epidemic in that county was growing. Reminder “1 was grubbing nassella when some of your board members were being fined for doing nothing,” said an irate Cheviot farmer, protesting, in a letter received yesterday by the North Canterbury Nassella Tussock Board, against a request that he do certain clearance work. Still In Step Joint duxes when they passed from the junior department to the senior school at Waitaki Girls’ High School four years ago, Margaret Stubbs, aged 18, and Patricia J. Salisbury, aged 17, maintained their record by being joint duxes this year. Both live in Oamaru.—(PA.)