General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31318, 14 March 1967, Page 16

General News

Churchill Portrait A portrait of Sir Winston Churchill has been presented to the Auckland War Memorial Museum by the Sir John Logan Campbell estate trustees. Painted by the British artist, Edward Halliday, who painted the portraits of the Queen and Sir Edmund Hillary already in the museum, it will be hung in the Second World War Hall of Memories. The painting cost lOOOgns.— (PJt) Warm Day Christchurch had warm, sunny weather yesterday, the maximum temperature being 71 degrees, recorded in the Botanic Gardens at 3 p.m. The highest temperature at Harewood was 70 degrees, also at 3 p.m. The wind was a light south-westerly. At 6 a m. at Harewood the temperature was 43 degrees, at 9 a.m. it was 54 degrees, and at noon 65 degrees. Little Choice Schoolchildren who refused to attend organised demonstrations in Bandung, Indonesia, either lost their place in school or had marks taken off their final-year examinations, said Miss B. E. Smith, assistant resettlement officer with the National Council of Churches, who has just returned from a short visit to Indonesia. The children were informed a few days before a demonstration was to be held, and a roll call was made on the day, Miss Smith said. Those found absent were punished in one of the two ways. Deputy-Principal The board of governors of the Christchurch Technical Institute will call applications next month for the position of deputy-principal. The size and grading of the institute now entitles it to such a fulltime non-teaching post. Board members said the principal and secretary of the board (Mr D. W. Lyall) had heavy administrative and planning responsibilities which now warranted an assistant. “Killing Off” No difficulty had occurred since Christmas, when some isolated areas were short of water, and while the improvements could take some credit for this, the main reasons had been the wet weather at the end of December and the “killing” of a high percentage of the consumers, the Levels County Engineer (Mr A. C. T. Thomsen) said in a report to the Downlauds Water Sup- 1 ply Committee in Timaru yesterday. Challenged, Mr Thomsen said: “I do not think it is a misprint. Most of our consumers are sheep.” The report was amended to read: “by killing off sheep, which are a high percentage of our consumers." (F.0.0.R.) Extra Skills The Education Department ' has approved a 12-weeks full- 1 time course in shorthand and i typewriting for university ( graduates to be held at the Christchurch Technical Insti- . tute. In response to a request ■ by the Canterbury Fire and i Accident Underwriters’ Asso- i elation, a course in speed < reading will also be held. Race Of Champions Lordship, a champion pacer, , D. W. Mackenzie, holder of , the New Zealand 440 yards ' athletics title, and T. Tabak, ! a New Zealand champion eye- , list, will contest a 110 yards I race at Addington Raceway , on Anzac Day afternoon. The ■ race will be one of the feat- : ure events at an equalisator • race meeting arranged by the , Christchurch Lions Club, the ] Christchurch Returned Ser- ■ vices’ Association, and the j Canterbury Trotting Owners’ : and Breeders’ Association for : the afternoon of Anzac Day. Late Enrolments Nine hundred late enrolments for part-time classes were received by the Christchurch Technical Institute. About another 150 are expected from university undergraduates who have workshop practice at the institute. Without the university group, total part-time enrolments are now 3450. Maori Apprentices The Christchurch Technical Institute’s board of governors has agreed to provide a second course in painting and decorating for Maori apprentices next year. This year evening classes in other subjects are being held for Maori apprentices at their hostels in Hansons lane and Springfield road. This has relieved the institute of accommodation pressure and given the youths “classes at home.” Personal Items Mr Arnold Smith, secretarygeneral of the Commonwealth Secretariat since June, 1965, will visit Auckland on April 10.—(PA.) Mr P. A Hickling, headmaster of the Linwood High School, who has been on the staff of the school since it opened in 1954, is to retire at the end of this year. This was announced at a meeting of the school’s board of govern nors last evening. Mr Hickling was appointed first assistant in 1954 and headmaster in 1957. He began his teaching career at Wesley College, near Auckland, in 1928. Thomas Pendreigh Brown, who graduated M 3., CH3., at the University of Otago Medical School in 1961, was successful in the recent final examinations for the Fellowship in the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.—London, March 13.