General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31363, 8 May 1967, Page 14

General News

£4 Sixpences At the Auckland Coin Club sale on Saturday, two sixpences, one 1940 and the other 1941, sold for £4 and £4 7s 6d respectively. The prices included £330 for a 1935 Waitangi crown and £l7 10s for an 1804 George II dollar.— (PA.) Honorary Kiwis Speaking at a social function at Lincoln College on Saturday evening to welcome overseas ploughmen, team managers and officials of the World Ploughing Organisation, the principal of the college, Dr. M. M. Burns, suggested that they should become “honorary visiting Kiwis.” Dr. Burns said that they were now in New Zealand and it was a characteristic of a “Kiwi” that he looked after himself. “We suggest that you become honorary visiting Kiwis and that you look after yourselves.” Persistent Rain The weather in Christchurch yesterday was overcast and dull with persistent rain. In a light to moderate southerly the highest temperature recorded was 52 degrees. Temperatures rose to 69 degrees on Saturday after a cool morning, with partly cloudy skies and calm conditions until a light northerly later in the afternoon. Civil Aid

Australian soldiers from Port Moresby will make the first of a series of civic aid patrols throughout PapuaNew Guinea in July. The first patrol through villages in the east, west and southern highlands and the Chimbu districts will be led by a garrison officer and will number 25. It will carry out minor community development tasks including giving technical advice and assistance in construction tasks, hygiene projects, the development of sporting facilities and medical aid. The Murray Barracks Garrison at Port Moresby plans to send out three more such patrols in the Papua-New Guinea area during 1967-68. The patrol will travel by R.AA.F. Caribou aircraft. World Weather World temperatures and weather in the last 24 hours were.—Rome, minimum 45 degrees, maximum 64, overcast; Paris, 45, 55, showery; London, 46, 57, sunny; Berlin, 41, 63, sunny; Amsterdam, 50, 59, cloudy; Brussels, 44, 61, cloudy; Madrid, 46, 55, sunny; Moscow, 63, 77, sunny; New York, 48, 68, cloudy; San Francisco, 53, 57, cloudy; Tokyo, 56, 77, cloudy; Hong Kong, 80, 86, clear; Sydney, 60, 76, hazy; Melbourne, 53, 63, hazy; Brisbane, 53, 69, rain.—London, May 6.