General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31249, 22 December 1966, Page 12

General News

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No Paper On Monday

“The Press” will not be published on Monday, December 26. On the following Monday, January 2, “The Press” will be published. Keen

Mr W. P. Glue is a keen member of the ChristchurchLyttelton Road Tunnel Authority, and his interest goes beyond the board room. He has given several Mexican yucca plants for the gardens at the toll plaza, and arrived at the meeting yesterday with a species of cactus he said would be quick-growing and attractive. While he was telling the general manager (Mr L. H. Wilson) how the cactus should be planted there was some juggling of a plant. The meeting was delayed while Mr Wilson went to the first-aid room and had thorns taken out of his hand by tweezers.

Mission’s Gifts About 450 Christmas gifts were delivered yesterday in Christchurch to lonely, aged, sick, and needy people and families by volunteers from the Methodist Central Mission. The associate minister for the mission (the Rev. A. R. Bowden) said yesterday that the gifts were sent annually, and last year about 400 had been distributed. The parcels included mainly tinned fruit, jam, cakes, sweets, and other groceries, and occasionally toys for children. No clothing was sent.

Popular Topic A Christmas party arranged at the Embassy Hotel on Tuesday evening by a Christchurch firm was held as planned, after it was first thought it would have to be postponed because of the fire in the Para Rubber Company’s premises next door. The firm provided its own entertainment. The most popular item? —A fire-eater.

Gifts For Children This year gifts from the Christmas tree in the banking chamber of the High street branch of the Bank of New South Wales will be given to some of the community’s less fortunate children. Just before Christmas the gifts will be presented on behalf of the clients and staff of the bank to the Prisoners’ Aid Society, To ensure that every child receives a suitable gift, the bank suggests that each parcel be marked either “girl” or “boy,” with the age group to which the gift would appeal.

Priest And Server Thirty-five years ago today the Rev. K. Schollar, then a newly-ordained priest, celebrated Holy Communion for the first time in St. Michael’s Church, Oxford terrace. He will mark the anniversary by celebrating Holy Communion at 12.15 p.m. today in the same church. His server will be Mr S. G. Lamport, who served for him on December 22, 1931.

Conscience Money The sum of £1705, received by the Inland Revenue Department, is among con-science-money payments acknowledged by the Secretary to the Treasury (Mr N. R. Davis) in the latest Gazette. The payments acknowledged amount to £1751 Us, and include £l5, £B, and two sums of £4 paid to the Inland Revenue Department, £lO paid to the New Zealand Electricity Department, £3 to the Health Department, £2 Is to the Treasury, and 10s to the Ministry of Defence.

Flag Wanted The Canterbury Chess Club needs a Phillipines flag for its centennial tournament, which will be held in Christchurch from December 26 to January 14. Flags from the countries of all the visiting players have been obtained, with the exception of the Phillipines. The flag will not be flown outside, but will hang on the wall of the tournament room.

Personal Items

Mr R. G. Armstrong was yesterday appointed the North Canterbury Hospital Board’’s representative on the Nursing Education and Research Foundation. Scholarships would be awarded by the foundation, and the first of these would be known as the Flora Cameron memorial scholarship, after a former director of nursing, it was said at yesterday’s meeting of the board.

Messrs R. W. Bill, D. McLeod, R. B. Johnson, R. F. James, K. C. K. Grant, and S. G. Buxton have been appointed to the Tawera Rabbit Board.