General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31154, 2 September 1966, Page 10

General News

Few Whitebait

With conditions almost perfect in Buller yesterday for the opening of the whitebaiting season, the banks of the Buller and Orowaiti rivers were lined with nets, but they were not used much. Good shoals have been seen in both rivers in the last fortnight, but the long spell of fine weather has made some streams shallow and not at their best for fishing. Few catches exceeded a pound.—(F.O.O.R.) Septic Cuts Cuts and scratches keep 20.00 men off work annually and cuts become septic on four in every 10 men. according to a poster in a display of safety equipment by the Department of Labour at a builders’ seminar in Christchurch yesterday. New Directory The Post Office will issue a new telephone directory for the Christchurch area next March. The chief postmaster (Mr M. E. Wilson) said yesterday that listings for the new directory would close at i the end of September. There I would be about 10.000 changes in the new issue. There would be no major changes in numbers through the opening of new exchanges. Nine-Degree Frosts Frosts of nine degrees, recorded yesterday at Harewood and the Botanic Gardens. were the heaviest since August 19, when a frost of eight degrees was recorded at Harewood. Temperatures rose quickly, and the weather in Christchurch yesterday was sunny and mild, with a light north-east wind. A maximum of 52 degrees was recorded at 3 p.m. At the Botanic Gardens at the same time a reading of 50 degrees was taken. Unsafe Workshops Some school workshops, did not meet the standards of the safety regulations, and some machines in them did not have even elementary guards, the superintendent of safety promotion for the National Safety Association (Mr N. A. Dunshea) told a seminar on accident prevention in the building industry in Christchurch yesterday. Schemes to bring the importance of safety before school pupils and to introduce safety into school workshops were now starting, he said. Health Stamps The first month of sales of the 1966 health stamps realised £16.584, the deputy-chief postmaster in Christchurch (Mr G. F. Bell) said yesterday. At the close of business on Wednesday sales had exceeded those for the corresponding period last year by £1027. Sales during the last (week amounted to £5OB. 60 Teams To Play Sixty teams are expected to take part in an indoor basketball tournament to be held tomorrow by the Canter-bury-Westland division of the Salvation Army. The touroaI ment will be held in conjunci tion with the annual youth I council meeting, and is beI lieved to be the first such i tournament organised by a division of the Salvation I Army in New Zealand. Record Catch With a million lb of fish landed, a Nelson fisherman, Mr Peter Crapper, slipped out of Nelson harbour yesterday morning in his 52ft boat Viking for another two days’ fishing. But Mr Crapper is no ordinary millionaire. His catch of 1.004.2441 b was achieved in exactly a year less a day and it is believed to be a New Zealand record for a 52ft boat—(P.A.)