General News

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31669, 3 May 1968, Page 10

General News

Objection Withdrawn

An objection by Mr R. G. cairns to the proposed removal of the Albion Hotel licence from Lyttelton to a tavern to be built by Balllns Industries, Ltd, at Bishopdale was withdrawn when the hearing was called at a sitting of the Special Town and Country Planning Appeal Board yesterday. N.A.C. Flights To clear the 500 passengers whom it had been unable to carry on Wednesday, wnen low cloud closed Christchurch Airport, the National Airways Corporation yesterday ran 16 special flights and chartered an Air New Zealand Electra. Because of the congestion in the morning there were delays of up to 30 minutes, but flights were running to time by file middle of the afternoon. Paris Exhibition A Christchurch artist, Mrs D. E. Robertson, of 35 Cambridge Terrace, has had two paintings hung in the 1968 Paris Salon exhibition. The titles of the paintings are ‘The Silver Bolero” and “Girl on a Ski Run.” In 1960 Mrs Robertson received an honorable mention at the Paris Salon. Ambulance Figures ' Christchurch ambulances carried 2313 patients In April, compared with 2697 the previous month and 2318 in April last year, according to figures supplied by the Christchurch sub-centre of the St John Ambulance Association. The mileage for April was 12,091, compared with 13,040 in March. Other figures, with those for March in parenthesis, are:—Motor accidents, 71 (67): patients from motor accidents, 89 (90); miscellaneous accidents, 82 (55).

Witness Faints A New Zealand Rugby League trialist, and a former New Zealand representative, Constable J. L. White, fainted while giving evidence in the Supreme Court yesterday morning and fell out of the witness-box. Constable White was under cross-examination by an accused man conducting his own defence. He recovered quickly, and walked out of the courtroom unaided, but on medical advice did not continue his evidence till the afternoon. He sat in a chair while giving it. Charred Mail A small quantity of mail posted in Nigeria for New Zealand has been salvaged from an ■ airliner which crashed in Beirut on January 29. The chief postmaster In Christchurch (Mr M. E. Wilson) said yesterday that the mall was badly charred but what was deliverable would be taken by special delivery to the addressees. Canoes On Waitaki Twenty venturer scouts from the Tui scout district will attempt an 80-mile trip by canoe down the Waitaki River from Lake Ohau to the Waitaki bridge on Boxing Day. The scouts, whose ages range from 15 to 19, have been examined and tested for the journey. The boys are building their own 14ft kayak-type canoes. An aerial reconnaissance will be made, and if any stretch of water appears too rough It will not be traversed by the canoes. It is believed it will be the first time scouts have canoed the length of the river.— (F.0.0.R.) Plywood Shipment Nineteen tons of plywood has been sent to Nelson from the Gladstone factory of Fletcher Timber, Ltd, for shipment to Sydney. This is tbo final consignment of an initial order received from Australia, and a company spokesman said yesterday that it was hoped that there would be more orders. The company has recently taken on more staff to meet the demand.—(F.O.O.R.)