General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31153, 1 September 1966, Page 14

General News

Disposal A slip of the tongue caused a witness to tell the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board yesterday. “We let him have a packing-case so he could send his wife away.” More Trees Ministry of Works staff had planted a large number of trees on the hillside surrounding the Heathcote fanhouse, the ChristchurchLyttelton Road Tunnel Authority was told yesterday. Most of the trees planted earlier had died, but this year’s planting was more concentrated and not so late. Builders’ Tour A party of 24, comprising members of master builders’ associations and their wives, would leave on an 18-day tour of Australia on September 4. said the executive officer of the Canterbury Master Builders’ Association (Mr C. M; Wishart) yesterday. Among those going would be the president of the Canterbury association (Mr A. R. Husband) and the president of the Nelson association (Mr K. Webley). Copper Pile The copper pile at Shirley Lodge—organised by a farmer New Zealand wrestling champion, Lofty Blomfield, to provide funds for the Intellectually Handicapped Children’s Society, is now about 2ft high and contains nearly £l4O. The pile was started at the end of April. Progress in the last months has been slower than previously; at the end of July the pile was about 18in high and contained about £l2O. No date for the demolition of the pile has yet been set. Warmer Day The weather in Christchurch yesterday was warmer, and cloud which had been present throughout the morning cleared during the afternoon. Light variable winds, mainly from the south-west in the morning, changed to an easterly in the afternoon. At Harewood at 8 a.m. the temperature was 38 degrees. This rose to 40 degrees at 9 a.m., and by noon it was 45 degrees. At 3 p.m. the temperature at Harewood was 48 degrees and at the Botanic Gardens 50 degrees. The maximum temperature recorded at Harewood was 49 degrees at 4 p.m. New Era A new era was heralded by the Director of Primary Education (Mr B. M. Pinder) at the conference of the Australasian Association of Institutes of Inspectors of Schools yesterday. In an address, he referred to balancing school curricula in the light of the predicted needs of pupils growing up “in the final third of the twentieth century.” Mr Pinder added: “Incidentally, I would like to announce officially that the concluding third of the twentieth century starts at 8 a.m. tomorrow. September 1, 1966, and that you are all free as from tomorrow to use this term in clade of the ‘second half of the twentieth century’.”