General News

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31596, 6 February 1968, Page 12

General News

Few Below Standard Few milk samples were reported below the required standard by the Medical Officer of Health (Dr L. F. Jepson) in his report to the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board yesterday. During November last year, all 58 samples were up to standard, and during December three of 49 samples failed the test for solids not fat by .05 per cent.

Telephone Damage The incidence of damage to public telephone boxes -to Christchurch was rising, the Regional Engineer of the Post Office (Mr H. W. Wilkinson) said yesterday. Last month there were 68 cases «f damage. To combat the problem the Post Office had installed alarms in some of the boxes, and these had had a limited success. Mr Wilkinson said Post Office engineers were working on several other technical devices, but until these were perfected the public were the best protectors of the telephones. The Post Office offers a reward of $lO for information leading to the conviction of anyone damaging a public telephone. Consideration may be given to increasing the reward. Floodlit Cross Agreement had been reached in discussions between the Civil Aviation Department and the Ministry of Works on whether the cross on the new Our Lady of Victories Church at Sockburn was high enough to interfere with the Wigram airfield flight-path, the Paparua County Council was told last evening. The cross can stay, but it must be floodlit. Canoe Trip Two brothers, Barrie and Clyde Cook, canoed down the Waimakiriri River on Saturday. The journey began at 10 a.m. from the gorge bridge and ended seven hours and a half later at the Main North Road bridge. The brothers made the 40-mile voyage to mark the hundredth anniversary of the occasion when the Waimakariri River flooded and flowed through Christchurch. The river was swollen on Saturday, and the brothers wore life-jackets all the time. They are members of the Arawa Canoe Club. Teachers Sought Advertisements by the Calgary School Board, printed in Christchurch this week, offer teachers salaries ranging from $4300 to $11,750 for work in Canada. Positions “in all grades and in all subject areas” are available. Applications to Cajgary are invited. So far there is no word of a recruiting team from the board visiting Christchurch.

Barley Harvest Canterbury barley growers have been advised to leave their crops standing until ready for harvest rather than windrow them. The Canterbury Malting Company’s field officer (Mr J. P. Malcolm) said yesterday that an inspection of crops from the Waimakariri River to the Rangitata River had shown that they had stood up well to wet weather. As regrowth in the next three weeks was not exr petted to be a problem, he advised growers to wait until they could direct head their crops. Windrowed crops, he said, could be a problem in that they would not be so exposed to the air and would draw moisture from the ground.

More Building The value of building permits issued by the Paparua County Council in 1967 was $4,338,461, a 29 per cent increase on the 1966 total of $3,410,662. Last month the council issued 93 permits for Work worth $454,048, compared with 115 permits worth $577,206 in January, 1967. More Returning There had been a slight increase in the number of pupils returning to school this year, especially in the number of pupils returning to sit school certificate for a second time, the headmaster of Hillmorton High School (Mr P. W. Murdoch) reported at the monthly meeting of the school’s board of governors last evening. Although he could not give an accurate number, as the third and fourth form pupils did not return to school until today, he said the opening roll for the school this year would be about 820, a slight increase on last year. K the roll increased any more, full school assemblies would not.be able to be held, as the school hall could barely cope with the present number of pupils. “We may have to ask for an extension to the hall,” he said.