General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 12

General News

Road Closed Oxford terrace will be closed at the Hereford street crossing between 5 a.m. and noon today to enable the Hereford street sewer work to continue. Appeal Figure Nearly £l5OO was raised in the Christchurch area yesterday for the Salvation Army’s annual street appeal. The Divisional Commander (Brigadier S. A. Smith) said last evening that with the money from boxes still to be returned and with postal donations it was hoped that the appeal would reach last year’s figure of just over £l7OO. Of the amount collected yesterday, about £B3 was raised from a stall held in Cathedral square. Brigadier Smith said that the money would be used mostly for social enterprises in metropolitan Christchurch. Queen’s Guide Badge At a “Thinking Day” presentation last Tuesday at New Brighton, 16-year-old Vivienne Dawn Lee, of the 54th Christchurch (North Beach) Company was presented with the Queen’s Guide Badge, the highest rank a girl guide can attain, by the South Christchurch Division Commissioner. Survival Course Soldiers of the Ist Battalion Depot, Burnham Military Camp, completed a rigorous survival course in bush country near Seddonville, about 30 miles north of Westport, on Wednesday The course was part of their training for service in Malaysia where they will be posted at the end of the year. Three groups of 30 soldiers each spent 10 days in the bush with limited rations living off the land. They were under the command of Captain B. D. Sinclair, of Burnham Camp. Raids On Hymns The Roman Catholic Church in the United States had “merrily raided Protestant hymn books," a leading theologian, the Rev. Father G. Diekmann, said in Christchurch yesterday. Faced with the problem of reintroducing congregational singing, the Church had found itself short of good hymns and music. Some hymns used widely by Protestants had been found useful, but the Catholic layman was still hesitant in his singing, he said. 13,000 See Flowers The secretary of the Canterbury Horticultural Society (Mr J. C. Fraser) described the attendance at the society’s biennia) show tn Hagley Park last evening as very disappointing. He said there had been an attendance of 3000 on the final day yesterday, making an attendance of 13,000 over the three days the show was held. There could have been two reasons for the drop in attendances since the 1964 show. These were, the heat during the show, and the enormous queues Which had been a feature of the show, two years ago.