General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31092, 22 June 1966, Page 12

General News

Tuna For Mayor A tuna from North Auckland will be flown to Christchurch today for presentation to the Mayor (Mr G. Manning). Three representatives of Northland Tourist Promotion who are conducting seminars for travel agents throughout the South Island will present the tuna to the Mayo; tomorrow afternoon, just before the Christchurch seminar begins. The Northland representatives are Mr L. Rutherford, Mr P. P. Quilter, and Major A. Voss, who have been attending the annual conference of the New Zealand Travel and Holidays Association here. The tuna will be kept in a deep-freeze until tomorrow. Farewell To Padre At least 200 members of the 20th New Zealand Infantry Battalion and Armoured Regiment Association will meet in Christchurch on Saturday for a function to honour the retirement from the ministry of the battalion’s first padre (the Rev. D. Spence). Mr Spence served with the battalion throughout the Middle East campaign. Since the war he has been Presbyterian minister at Mornington, Dunedin. Commentators One of the four commentators being used by Rediffusion for its television coverage of the Wimbledon tennis championships at present in progress is D. C. Coombe, the former New Zealand Davis Cup captain. The others are F. J. Perry, the last English men’s Wimbledon champion, E. Jones, and W. Trelfall. Jones is director of the Crystal Palace Recreation Centre and Trelfall a former naval tennis champion. London correspondent. Good Mixer International hotel managers are the world’s best mixers, and Mr J. E. Player, an executive director of Motel King’s Cross, Sydney, is the champion mixer of them all. Mr Player, now visiting Auckland, is a life member of the British Bartenders’ Guild, and was once one of Europe’s top barmen. In 1935 he won the gold medal award as the champion cocktail mixer in Britain. His original cocktail, the “Deansgate,” (lime juice, Drambuie, and Scotch whisky, brushed with the oil from orange peel), is today a standard recipe. As a 15-year-old in a Manchester hotel Mr Player spent three years polishing glasses, squeezing lemons, and cleaning ash-trays, before he was allowed to mix a cocktail. He earned 13s 6d a week. The head barman earned £2OO a week in tips, and gave him 2s 6d a week. Pilgrimage Three hundred New Zealand returned servicemen and their families will arrive in Noumea on July 2 in the liner Oriental Queen to make a pilgrimage to war-time sites. They will march to the War Memorial to place a wreath in memory of their fallen comrades. They will later visit the New Zealand war cemetery at Bourail, central New Caledonia. The Oriental Queen will leave on July 4. A similar pilgrimage was made last year.—Noumea, iJune 21. Exchange A samurai sword surrendered by a Japanese medical officer, Lieutenant Rinshiro Kawashima, on Rabaul in 1945, has been returned by a Japanese language interpreter, Mr E. H. Thompson, of Ellerslie. In return he has received from Dr. Kawashima, who lives near Tokyo, an in-tricately-patterned blue and white Aritayaki vase. The gift was handed over by the master of the Japan Rimu, Captain Kinji Suwa. The sword had a plate showing the owner’s name and unit.— (P.A.)