General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31340, 10 April 1967, Page 12

General News

High Temperatures Christchurch’s highest April temperature since 1961 was recorded at Harewood yesterday—B3 degrees. Light to moderate north-westerly winds brought high temperatures throughout the day—7l degrees at 6 a.m., 68 degrees at 8 a.m., 77 degrees at 10 a.m., 82 degrees at noon, 83 degrees at 2 p.m., and 80 degrees at 4 p.m. The temperature on the Government Life building was 86 degrees at 2 p.m. A temperature of 85.5 degrees was recorded at Harewood on April 16, 1961. £10,500 For Appeal About £10,500 was collected by the Canterbury branch of the Intellectually Handicapped Children’s Society in Christchurch on Saturday. Mr C. H. Curragh, the branch president, said yesterday that the amounts collected in Ashburton, Timaru and the West Coast were still to be counted. Lemons Confiscated Four freak lemons astonished customs men who discovered them at Sydney Airport yesterday. Their average weight was 2Rb. The lemons, grown in Sicily according to one customs official, had been brought into the country by an unidentified passenger. “There was no attempt to conceal them,” the official said. “I imagine the passenger just wanted them as souvenirs but they contravened the quarantine laws and we could not let him keep them.”—Sydney, April 9. Bar Ban Lifted Bellamy’s bar, traditionally an almost all-male refuge in Parliament Buildings, will be opened to women guests. Women members of Parliament have previously been the only women permitted in the bar. The Parliamentary House Committee has authorised the opening of Bellamy’s visitors’ bar to women guests of members for the first four weeks of the forthcoming session. It will then decide whether to continue the practice permanently. It’s A Hobby Are you an argyrothecologist? People are, having collected at least one argyrothecological specimen, usually when they were children. Argyrothecology is the practice of collecting money boxes. The Otago Savings Bank, which has one of the largest collections in the Southern Hemisphere, receives hundreds of requests for its boxes from all over the world each year. The bank’s collection ranges from the old favourites such as “piggy banks,” to spaceships and telephones, and a working model of a safe complete with lock combination.