General News

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31656, 17 April 1968, Page 10

General News

Free Firewood During the last few days, many people have gone to Hagley Park to collect cones from fallen branches Yesterday a team of young men took saws and loaded roof carriers of cars with oak logs. The Director of Reserves (Mr H. G. Gilpin) said that, if permission was obtained from the City Council, this would be approved. “We will allot a given area and insist that rubbish is stacked tidily,” he said. Otherwise persons helping themselves and also helping the council to clear up might cause more work than they saved. School Closed The South New Brighton School will be closed today while repairs to storm damage are completed. The chairman of the school committee (Mr D Gaynor) said that tiles had been blown off and four classrooms received water damage. There was still a danger that other tiles might fall. Mr Gay nor said that if the school bad to remain closed tomorrow there would be newspaper and radio announcements. Many Demands An airport manager did not have the sweetest job in the world, said the manager of Christchurch Airport (Mr A. I. R. Jamieson), addressing members of the Canterbury division of the Institute of Management yesterday. Yet few other positions offered such an opportunity of exercising so many aspects of business management. “You have to be something of an aviation expert, a real estate agent, have a working knowI ledge of construction and I electronics engineering, be a 'financial wizard, know about I management generally, be I prepared to act as a public relations man, and have the capability of assessing the political climate, as at any particular time it may or may not affect the development of your airport.” Mr Jamieson was speaking on planning for growth at an international airport. Leptospirosis Case Another case of leptospirosis, involving a man in his forties in the Ellesmere County, has been reported to the Health Department, which is investigating. Other notifiable diseases reported were one case of infective hepatitis involving a Christchurch youth, three cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and one of nonpulmonary tuberculosis. The pulmonary tuberculosis cases involved two Christchurch men—one in his fifties and one in his thirties—and a man in his fifties in Riccarton. Soviet Journalist A former Russian freelance journalist, who in his early career was on the staff of “Life” magazine in Moscow, has arrived in New Zealand to take up his first diplomatic post as First Secretary (press relations) at the Soviet Legation. He is Mr Evgeny Pozdnyakov who, before his present appointment, was on the staff of the Novosti news agency, the only independent news agency in the Soviet Union. He will now be responsible for the publication of the Weekly Soviet Union news bulletin in New Zealand.— (PA.)