General News

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31727, 10 July 1968, Page 12

General News

By Heart Mr Justice Thurgood Marshall, first Negro judge of the United States Supreme Court and John F. Kennedy memorial fellow in New Zealand this month, yesterday confirmed a story of his youth. At his high school, those in trouble were sent to the basement with instructions to memorise sections Of the United States Constitution. “1 went to the basement so often,” he said, "that t knew the whole thing by heart before I was 17."

More Telephones The Post Office will connect an additional 200 telephones to the Kaiapoi exchange to cater for the international scout jamboree next January The regional engineer of the Post Office in Christchurch (Mr H. W. Wilkinson) said the work, which would have been done some time next year to meet normal growth rates, had been advanced because of the jamboree. The Kaiapoi exchange at present has 1420 lines. The additional 200 lines will be available before Christmas. Hobson’s Choice “1 believe none of you want to go to the tuck shop—even if you could,” the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch (the Most Rev. B. P. Ashby) told pupils of St Bede’s College at the conclusion of a Youth Against Hunger Campaign austerity meal at the college yesterday. He described the water, rice and curried mince as “less than a normal meal.” Roll Of Arms The council of the New Zealand branch of the Heraldry Society will compile a national roll of arms, to be kept in 10 sections. These will be Royal arms, the arms of the Governors-General, the arms of the Dominion, municipal arms, arms of civic authorities, ecclesiastical arms, arms of universities and schools, arms of commercial corporations, arms of institutions and societies, and family arms. Those to be recorded will be ones to which the present bearers can lay a reasonable claim of lawful use.—(P.A.) World Weather The following weather reports were compiled by the Associated Press and A.A.P.Reuter: Rome, 66 degrees minimum, 86 degrees maximum, sunny; Paris, 58, 75, sunny; London, 55, 70, fair; Berlin, 48, 77, cloudy; Amsterdam, 57, 68, cloudy; Brussels, 69, 77, sunny; Madrid, 63, 86. sunny: Moscow, 66, 82, sunny: Stockholm, 54, 72, rain; New York, 60, 82, cloudy: San Francisco, 53, 59, cloudy; Tokyo. 69, 81, cloudy: Mexico City, 53, 77, rain.—(London, July 8.) Safeguard Mr Justice Thurgood Marshall told his John F. Kennedy memorial lecture audience in Christchurch last evening that he had worked a lot with the new African countries, and his most rewarding experience was. to put into the constitution of one of them adequate protection for their minority group —“which happened to be white.” Lottery Draw The Golden Kiwi lottery, No. 341, will be drawn on Thursday.—(P. A.)