General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31090, 20 June 1966, Page 12

General News

Memorial Award

To commemorate the work of the late Mr W. E. Cook in the Christchurch and North Canterbury area of the British Drama League it has been decided to award a trophy at the annual festival for the best written play by a local playwright. Conditions of the award have not been completed but it is hoped that the W. E. Cook Memorial Trophy will be presented at this year’s festival in the last week of July. Affiliated clubs have been invited to contribute towards the cost of the trophy. Mild Week-End After a five-degree frost Saturday was mild with light variable winds. The temperature at 6 a.m. was 33 degrees, at 9 a.m., 34 degrees, noon 46 degrees and 3 p.m. 51 degrees. Yesterday’s weather was similiar, with calm, mild conditions, after an eight degree frost. The temperature at 6 a.in. was 31 degrees, at 9 a.m. 30 degrees, at noon 46 degrees, and at 3 p.m. 53 degrees, which was the maximum for the day.

Frosty Morning Ophir, one of the coldest townships in Central Otago in winter; had a frost of 30.2 degrees on Friday morning. This was not the heaviest on record. A frost of 37 degrees was recorded on July 2, 1943. There were heavy frosts throughout most of Central Otago on Friday morning. Troops Captured Residents of Banks Peninsula contributed to the success of an army exercise held at the week-end. Men of 31 Medium Radio Sub-Troop landed from H.M.N.Z.S. Pegasus at various points on Banks Peninsula. Their task was to gather information while eluding capture by a strong security force of No. 1 Reconnaisance Squadron and No. 3 Brigade Group Provost Unit. Fifty per cent of the landing parties were captured, mainly as a result of reports by civilians. An army officer said their co-operation was appreciated. Good Skating More than 500 skaters, transported by 110 cars and two buses, were on Lake Ida yesterday. They were able to use a little less than half the lake and, with ice to 6in thick, conditions were excellent. There were frosts of 20deg. on Saturday and Sunday, and entrants in the Canterbury ice-skating championships next month trained on a 400-metre course on Little Lake Ida. Memorial Hut A hut, to be known as the Len Holdaway Memorial Hut, will be built at the mouth of the Worsley river at Lake Te Anau in memory of the Rotorua deerstalker who was killed in an accident in Fiordland National Park last year. According to “National Park News,” the building of the 12bunk hut will be financed from donations from Mr Holdaway’s widow, the Rotorua branch of the New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association, and miscellaneous donors, with a Government subsidy of £2 for £l. The hut will be available to fishermen as well as deerstalkers and will thus be in use all the year.