General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31235, 6 December 1966, Page 18

General News

Council Praised “It is gratifying to see the care the Christchurch City Council has taken in this matter, as is usually the case with the Christchurch City Council,” the chairman of the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board (Mr J. W. Kealy, S.M.) said during a hearing before the board yesterday. “The board’s task would be much easier if other local bodies took the same care.” Below Standard Fifteen of 59 milk samples taken during October were noi up to the standard required of solids-not-fat, it was reported at yesterday’s meeting of the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board. Analysts of those failing to comply with the test were specified as being for the confidential information of the board. Christmas Mail The first signs of the Christmas mail avalanche were evidenced at the Chief Post Office yesterday. Postmen took longer than usual for a Monday morning to get away on their rounds after fairly heavy week-end postings. The Deputy Chief Postmaster (Mr G. F. Bell) said staff would feel the weight of Christmas mail from next Monday to Christmas Eve. Temporary staff have been notified when to report for duty. Juvenile Vacancies Juvenile vacancies were building up because of the end of the school year, said the District Superintendent of the Department of Labour (Mr C. D. Macan) yesterday. At the end of November there were 269 male and 84 female vacancies registered. Thirtynine persons were unemployed at the end of November. Seasonal activities had now taken on many more workers, said Mr Macan. Fragile Trophy The Helensville Agricultural and Pastoral Association has a glass trophy for the winner of the women’s hunter event which is too fragile to be presented. It is the Aldebragh Trophy—a miniature glass boat The winner, on Saturday, Mrs S. E. Watts, was presented with a photograph only. The trophy will be engraved with the winner’s name and kept by the association. Cloudy And Mild The weather was partly cloudy with mild to warm temperatures in Christchurch yesterday. The maximum temperature recorded at Harewood was 74 degrees at 4 p.m. A temperature of 49 degrees was recorded at Harewood at 6 a.m. At 9 a.m. the temperature was 56 degrees, at noon 66 degrees, and at 3 p.m. 71 degrees. Light northerly winds blew most of the day. At the Botanic Gardens a temperature of 70 degrees was recorded at 3 p.m, and the temperature gauge on the Government Life building showed 65 degrees at 5 p.m. Lamb Chop “If we bring a tourist to New Zealand and sell him a lamb chop in one of our restaurants, it earns us 10 times as much in overseas funds than if we exported the chop” —Mr H. J. Walker, M.P, at the opening of the Christchurch Youth Hostel on Saturday.