General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31142, 19 August 1966, Page 10

General News

New Flats

Sixteen pensioners’ flats at Fletcher place, Riccarton, will be ready for tenants on August 30, and work on the remaining 16 units, ahead of schedule, should be completed well before the original date in February, the County Engineer (Mr I. Calvert) told the Waimairi County Council last night. Health Stamps Sales of health stamps this year were still considerably up on last year’s, the DeputyChief Postmaster in Christchurch (Mr G. F. Bell) said yesterday. At the close of business on Monday sales had reached £15,194 in the metropoliUn area, he said, compared with £14.518 last year. Sales began on August 1 and will continue until November 30. Suppression “This is a criminal court, and it is a fundamenUl principle of British justice that the public should be fully informed of what goes on in this court. Justice should be seen to be done,” Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on the question of suppression of offenders’ names. The Magistrate said that he was prepared to grant suppression of name only when there were medical or similar reasons. Suppression would not be granted only on the- gound that there was a good defence to the charge, he said. Fine Day The weather in Christchurch yesterday was fine, with a moderate to fresh north-east wind. A frost of four degrees was recorded in the Botanic Gardens, but there was no frost at Harewood. The temperature at Harewood at 6 a.m. was 39 degrees, 40 degrees at 9 a.m., and 48 degrees at noon. The maximum of 49 degrees was recorded at 3 and 4 p.m. The temperature in the Botanic Gardens at 3 p.m. was also 49 degrees. The temperature gauge on the Government Life building showed a temperature of 49 degrees at 4.15 p.m. Holiday Fare Cr. R. H. Stillwell was unsuccessful at the City Council meeting this week in his support of a move to have kiwis on display at the Botanic Gardens; but he has borrowed a stuffed kiwi from the Canterbury Museum to show it to children who visit his Selwyn street home during the holidays, when he will be host to all comers for a one-man “variety show.” From 6 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays during the school holidays Cr. Stillwell will have entertainment in his theatrette. It will include television, working toys from Japan .comedy films, and a tape-recorder on which children will be able to give messages and hear them played back. The lifelike kiwi will be a special display. Worth II "Money well spent,” said the president of the Lyttelton Fishermen’s Association (Mr D. J. Threadwell) after a fivehour cruise in the Marine Department’s new fisheries development vessel W. J. Scott yesterday. She cost £87.000. Mr Threadwell and three other Lyttelton fishermen, Messrs N. J. Brasell, A. L. Brasell and R. Brown, were guests of the ship during a two-hour stern trawling exercise .