General News

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31379, 26 May 1967, Page 10

General News

“Wrong Impression” “That is a very wrong impression ... it is the reverse if anything,” said Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when a defendant without counsel in a traffic case suggested that there was a bias by the Court against persons who appeared without counsel. “A great deal of tolerance is permitted, and a great degree of courtesy,” said the Magistrate. Museum Bank A goldfields bank, reminiscent of Hokitika, is planned by the Canterbury Museum, which has received from the Australia and New Zealand Bank a large collection of early banking-chamber furnishings, including a teller’s box, apparatus for weighing and smelting gold, and many other items. The proposed exhibit will show goldminers bringing in their finds. The museum wants an original skin gold-bag. £11,500 Received A total of £11,500 had been received till yesterday in the Canterbury-West Coast area of the national appeal for the Intellectually Handicapped Children’s Society appeal, said Mr C. Curragh, president of the Canterbury-Westland branch of the society, yesterday. Small amounts were still being received, he added. Dull Day The weather was dull in Christchurch yesterday, with light, variable winds until an easterly in the afternoon. A temperature of 48 degrees was recorded at Harewood at 6 a.m. and at 9 a.m., and at noon and 3 p.m. the maximum temperature of 52 degrees was recorded. The temperature at the Botanic Gardens at 3 p.m. was also 52 degrees. The temperature gauge on the Government Life building registered 54 degrees at 4.30 p.m. Absent The accounts of the Canterbury Museum were “conspicuous for the absence of a fourfigure levy due from a certain council,” the Museum Trust Board was informed yesterday. Teaching By Film “The use of film strips in teaching has a wide variation and we have a strong demand for projectors to show them," said the principal of the Papanui High School (Mr E. Fancy) at a meeting of the school’s board of governors yesterday. Mr Fancy was explaining the need for a third film-strip projector at the school. The board decided to buy a projector costing £46. Early Southbridge Mrs Margaret MacLeod, who was born in Southbridge in 1886, recently visited the Canterbury Museum seeking information. Her father, the Rev. Alfred Watson Hands, was vicar of Southbridge from 1881 to 1888. Mrs MacLeod wanted to learn more about her father’s period there. The museum director (Dr. R. S. Duff) said he would send to Mrs MacLeod any information old Southbridge residents might have. Not A Trustee Sir Francis Chichester was not elected a trustee of the National Union of Seamen in Britain in a ballot of delegates at their conference in Dublin. “The Times” says. He received only one vote. Mr W Hogarth, the general secretary, said that it had not been possible to ask Sir Francis Chichester if he would accept nomination and to explain to him the obligations of a trustee.

Rugs Exported A shipment of 180 New Zealand-made rugs with traditional Maori patterns has been exported to Brisbane. The “manatunga” travelling rugs —•they derive their name from the Maori word for keepsake —were ordered as a direct result of the New Zealand trade mission’s visit to Australia earlier this year. The order was secured by the spinning and weaving divisions of Ross and Glendining, Ltd., a division of U.E.B. Textiles, Ltd.