General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31139, 16 August 1966, Page 14

General News

Kite-Flying Dangers

As the kite flying season is approaching the Municipal Electricity Department is asking parents and teachers to warn children against flying kites near overhead wires. All lines are a danger to kite flyers, says the department, and the only safe course is to avoid flying kites in any area near live overhead lines. A wet kite string touching a live line may seriously injure the child holding the lower end. The department says that a kite which becomes entangled in an overhead line should be abandoned. Coronation Street Forty-six residents of 56 in Coronation street, Spreydon, asked the City Council in a petition last evening not to change the name of their street. “There has been no move to change the name,” Cr. A. R. Guthrey said. “No, but we will receive the petition,” the Mayor (Mr G. Manning) said. “We can tell them there is no move to change the name.” Early Climbing Because some tickets remain for the W. A. Kennedy memorial lecture tomorrow evening, the Canterbury Mountaineering Club has decided to issue them to the public. Mr E. R. Williams, a veteran climber, will speak on “Pioneering in the New Zealand Alps with W. A. Kennedy." There is no charge. Tickets may be obtained from Mr A. Panton, telephone 64-859. Port Busier Lyttelton was busier yesterday and most of the waterfront labour was absorbed. Two ships lay at Cashin quay. They were the Wilhelmsen Line’s motor vessel Tomar discharging Continental cargo, and the small German motor vessel Bodetal discharging Ecuadorean bananas. Because of the recent discovery of scale insects in the vessel’s cargo at Auckland, the local cargo is being fumigated, as it was in Auckland, before it is sent from the quay to the city.