General News

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31519, 6 November 1967, Page 12

General News

Hit By Lightning A golfer was struck by lightning during a wild electrical storm which swept Sydney on Saturday. Mr F. Bleasel was walking to the eighteenth hole, near the clubhouse, with two other players at the start of the storm. The lightning hit his golf buggy, and he fell to the fairway unconscious. His companions were shocked, but not injured. Mr Bleasel suffered superficial burns. —Sydney November 5. Dull Week-end After a cool, overcast day with a light north-easterly wind, rain began at Harewood at 3 p.m. yesterday. The temperature rose slowly during the morning at Harewood from 41 degrees at 6 a.m. to a maximum of 56 degrees at noon. At 4 p.m., the temperature had dropped to 51 degrees. On Saturday the weather was also cloudy and cool, and light rain fell between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. A moderate south-westerly kept the temperature to a maximum of 56 degrees, recorded at Harewood at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Swept To West A 19-year-old East German border guard swept his way into the American sector of West Berlin yesterday—using a broom. Then he asked for political asylum. Police said the East German corporal crossed over at Heinrich Heine Strasse in the United States sector of Kreuzberg. The uniformed guard appeared on the western side of the concrete border wall with a broom, briskly sweeping the road and white-painted border line. Suddenly he dropped the broom and dashed into the Western Sector unnoticed by other guards on duty at the wall.—West Berlin, November 5. Personal Items Mr M. J. Henshall has been awarded the Institute of Accountants of New Zealand Scholarship of $5OO a year, to enable him to gain additional accountancy experience for two years. Mr Henshall, who is 23, was educated at Christ’s College and the Victoria University of Wellington where he graduated Bachelor of Commerce and Administration with honours. While studying at university, he was employed in a Wellington accountant’s office. He will leave New Zealand next month for London where he will join a firm of chartered accountants.

Mr G. M. Findlay has been appointed a member of the Rabbit Destruction Council for five years on the nomination of the South Island Rabbit Boards' Association. He sccceeds Mr J. R. Geddes. Mr C. C. Noall, headmaster of Wellington High School, will succeed Mr C. C. Day as principal of the Wanganui Boys’ College.—(P.A.)

Messrs J. J. Craddock and M. B. Willyams, both of Christchurch, have been granted transfer of status from Associate Registered Accountant of the New Zealand Society of Accountants to Fellow Registered Accountant, account.