General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31224, 23 November 1966, Page 20

General News

Hotels Review

A tentative date of May 1 has been set by the Licensing Control Commission for the resumption of its review of Christchurch licensing district hotel licences. The commision has also to consider the question of tavern licences for Bishopdale, Hoon Hay, Avonhead, and Huntsbury. Thanksgiving Day Cooks in the galley at the United States Navy Antarctic support force headquarters at Christchurch airport will cater for about 400 servicemen, their families, and guests at the annual Thanksgiving Day dinner on Friday. For servicemen at the base Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday. Dinners will be served in the officers’ and enlisted men’s messes. The fare will consist of turkey, cranberry sauce, salad, mince pie, and pumpkin pie. The menus will be very much the same at the American bases in Antarctica. Welfare State “I have a bug about the welfare state,” said Mr R. B. Macfarlane, a Christchurch Teachers’ College lecturer, speaking to a seminar of sixth-form pupils of Christchurch schools yesterday. “Its greatest critics have no need of it . . . and those who talk most about private enterprise suffering are those who are fully protected by import licences and enjoy a monopoly market. I believe that far more comes out of co-opera-tion than competition.” Gifts From Haast

Contributions to C.0.R.5.0. from residents in Haast over the last three years amounted to £l9O, C.0.R.5.0.’s district organiser (Mr G. H. Coley) said yesterday. The gift of £4 4s 6d from the junior Bible class at Haast, which was received recently, was the first received from a youth group in that area, Mr Foley said, and not the first from Haast, as was reported in “The Press” yesterday. Payment The Christchurch Drainage Board decided last evening to pay members 30s as an expense allowance for each board meeting or meeting of a board committee, to a limit of £7B a year. The payment, which does not apply to the chairman, who has an honorarium, starts from September 1, and is made possible by an amendment to the board’s act to bring it into line with the practice of other local bodies. One Of Family An employee of Southward Engineering Company, Ltd., Lower Hutt, arrived at work on Monday and found a little stranger in the carton where the firm’s cat had established her family of four kittens. The newcomer, a young rat, had been made welcome by cat and kittens. The kittens romp with their new playmate and the cat makes quite a fuss of washing it. When a photographer called yesterday the rat was out walking but the mother cat retrieved it and brought it back for a family picture.—(P.A.) Horseback Visit The Bishop of ■ Auckland (the Rt. Rev. E. A. Gowing) arrived on horseback to conduct a service at the Church of the Holy Cross at Rangi Point on Saturday. Rang! Point, a remote spot on the Hokianga harbour, is inaccessible by road, and Bishop Gowing had to ride four miles over hills from the home of his hosts, Mr and Mrs J. Watkins. He had crossed the harbour on Friday.