General News

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31564, 29 December 1967, Page 6

General News

Blue-bottles Blue-bottles were washed ashore along the beaches : from Waimairi to South Brighton yesterday. Reports said the jelly-fish were liberally spread along the high water mark. No-one is reported to have been treated for stings. The Sumner and Taylor’s Mistake beaches were free of blue-bottles. More Parcels More parcels and packets were sent through the Christchurch Central Post Office during the Christmas period than were sent last year, the Acting Chief Postmaster (Mr M. Johnston) said yesterday. The normal pattern was for parcels and packets to decrease each year, he said. There were, however, fewer telegrams and toll calls. All mail left from the pre-Christ-i mas clearing was cleared on I Wednesday. Cloudy Day Though the day was cloudy and a moderate easterly blew, temperatures in Christchurch yesterday varied little —from 56 degrees at 6 a.m. to the maximum of 63 degrees at 4 p.m. At 9 a.m. at Harewood the temperature was 56 degrees, at noon it was 59 degrees, and at 1.30 p.m. it reached 62 degrees and did; not alter until 4 p.m. Bar To Patrons j The manager of the Cleve-i don Hotel, Auckland (Mr MJ M. Hart), has had many in-1 quiries from bar patrons ex-i pecting him to open at 9 a.m., as the hotel was granted amended hours earlier this month, but he is still waiting for the Government Printer. Until the official decision has been published in the New Zealand Gazette he must conform to the 11 a.m. opening.' I Tawanui-Taranui Two vessels with similar names are due at Lyttelton this week-end. They are the Northern Steam Ship Company’s 891-ton motor vessel Tawanui, a regular caller and engaged on the OnehungaSouth Island service, and the 954-ton motor vessel Taranui, an irregular Lyttelton visitor, owned by the South Seas Shipping Company (Suva), Ltd. The Taranui will bring molasses from Bundaberg. Rain In Alps Rain was falling in the Mount Cook area yesterday, and no climbing was done. The Hermitage is at an altitude of 2500 ft, and Mr D. F. Bell, chief ranger for the Mount Cook National Park Board, reported cloud about 1000 ft above the Hooker Valley. Most of the 90 or so climbers in the high huts would be in the region over the holidays, and some intended remaining up to three weeks, said Mr Bell.— (F.0.0.R.)