General News

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31017, 24 March 1966, Page 12

General News

Common Cents

New Zealand’s change to decimal currency is still more than a year away, but one men’s wear salesman in a Christchurch store is ready for the change. He has taught himself to think in both currencies and can rattle off the price of anything he is selling in dollars and cents as well as in pounds, shillings and pence. Boundaries A reader yesterday asked “The Press” to define the boundaries of North, South and Mid-Canterbury. The chief survey draughtsman of the Lands and Survey Department (Mr C. Holdsworth) said: “There are no official, legal or otherwise prescribed boundaries for the three areas which are so-called by common usage. The Lands and Survey Department regards the area North Canterbury as the land lying in the province north of the Waimakariri, Mid-Canterbury as the area between the Waimakariri and the Rangitata, and South Canterbury as the area between the Rangitata and the southern provincial boundary.” Warm Day The weather in Christchurch yesterday was warm, with a maximum temperature of 72 degrees at Harewood at 3 p.m. The temperature at Harewood at 6 a.m. was 57 degrees, rising to 60 degrees by 9 a.m. and 67 degrees at midday. After reaching its maximum of 72 degrees, the temperature had dropped to 70 degrees by 4 p.m. It was 71 degrees in the Botanic Gardens at 3 p.m. Skies were cloudy to partly cloudy all day, with patches of fog in the morning, and a light southerly wind in the morning changed to a light easterly in the afternoon. Uniformity “Some counties maintain a clear skies policy in daylight during periods of fire restrictions, while others permit burning during the day. It might be as well to have some degree of uniformity,” suggested the chairman (Mr C. N. Mackenzie), at yesterday’s annual meeting of Ward 11 of the Counties’ Association, Shared Win Mr T. Coyle, of Napier, and Mr L. Smith, of Napier, shared first prize in the halfhour television playwriting competition run by the Playwrights' Association. The competition, the first for television playwriting in New Zealand, was arranged by the association for its members to encourage writing for television. The judge was Mr B. Bell, productions supervisor at WNTVL—(P.A.) Busy Port There was a surplus of waterfront labour for the third successive morning at Lyttelton yesterday, with 569 men engaged at 7 a.m. and 110 on attendance pay without jobs, but the position changed after the arrival of the Tarawera with 10,000 cases of island bananas for discharge. Considerable labour was absorbed and by today there may be a shortage again. Because of the temporary tax on berthage three vessels, the Hauraki, Holmbrae and Wairata, are expected to anchor after their arrival today, but two of them are expected to berth later today. Nearly “Perhaps history really does repeat itself,” said a note to a card received by the City Council’s Traffic Superintendent (Mr J. F. Thomas) from a friend. The printed card announced in the front “You’re in the news,” but inside the printed message had been covered by a clipping from “Punch” of 1964. It showed two men in an office and in front of the one sitting at the desk was the Buchanan report. The caption read: “If we pigeon-holed it for a few more months we can always argue that it was out of date.” History did not repeat itself, for on Monday night by a slender majority the City Council adopted the report of Professor C. Buchanan on the Christchurch master transport plan and the plan was taken from a pigeon-hole. Good Response The recent street appeal of the Christchurch Children’s Homes Combined Appeal Trust Board realised £1250, £l5O more than last year, the secretary-treasurer of the trust (Mrs F. S. Miller-Mead) reports. The trust was most grateful for the gratifying response from the public of Christchurch, she said. Service Restored I Telegraph service with In- ' donesia has been restored, the i Chief Postmaster (Mr J. W. Lincoln) reported yesterday.