General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31163, 13 September 1966, Page 16

General News

Low Temperature The lowest temperature for an American base in Antarctica was recently recorded at the Plateau station in Queen Maud Land. It is minus 125.8 degrees. The Antarctic record is minus 127 degrees, registered at the Russian Vostok station. About two months ago a temperature of minus 116 degrees was registered at the Plateau station. Gift Of Blood Canterbury University students will give 400 pints of blood to the Blood Transfusion Service this week. It will be the first time they have given en masse to the service. The mobile transfusion unit will be set up at the university in the city, and the donations will be taken tomorrow and on Thursday. The secretary of the service (Mr A. T. Sindlen) said that the blood bank in the city would be closed for the two days. The mass donation would give a tremendous boost to supplies. What was not to be used soon would be converted to plasma or sent to Australia for fractionalisation and then returned. Australian Visit About six boy scouts from Canterbury will be in the New Zealand contingent to attend an Australian corroboree at the Woodhouse memorial camping and training ground, 12 miles south of Adelaide. The corroboree will start on December 28 and end on January 7. The New Zealand party will consist of about 37. Mainly Fine Mainly fine weather, with moderate temperatures, was experienced in Christchurch yesterday. The maximum temperature recorded at Harewood was 54 degrees between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. After a frost of five degrees, a temperature of 36 degrees was recorded at Harewood at 6 a.m. This rose to 46 degrees at 9 a.m. and 51 degrees at noon. A moderate to fresh southerly wind developed during the morning. The Botanic Gardens recorded a tempera ture of 54 degrees at 3 p.m., and the temperature gauge on the Government Life building showed 58 degrees at 4.30 p.m.