General News

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31754, 10 August 1968, Page 12

General News

Bottle Problem "This sort of thing gives the public the idea that farmers drink at night,” said Cr G. E Logan, when the Malvern County Council yesterday discussed the problem of bottles thrown from cars on to roadsides and paddocks. Cr J. N. Murchison said that after week-ends the Lake Ida road was littered with hundreds of beer bottles, though appeals were made to visitors not to throw them away. Project Concern The visit to Christchurch of Dr J. W. Turpin, founder of Project Concern, had aroused tremendous interest, and a number of people wanted to help him to run his clinics in Hong Kong and Mexico and a hospital in Vietnam, said the president of Christchurch Jaycees (Mr E. D. Young) yesterday. “I have been receiving an average of four calls a day, a cheque for $5 has been sent, and interested people, including a doctor and several nurses, have asked about going to work with Project Concern,” said Mr Young. With the object of establishing a strong working group in Christchurch and to discuss how Dr Turpin may best be helped, a meeting is to be held on Monday night in the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s hall. Just Like Home Professor T. W. Walker, who recently returned to Lincoln College, after a six months visit to the Oregon State University, this week described Oregon as one of the most under-populated states, and therefore still very pleasant. Professor Walker, who was speaking to the Ashburton Farm Improvement Club, had been asked about the state of opinion prevailing in the United States in view of its domestic and foreign problems. Professor Walker said he lived in a university city of 39,000 persons, 13,000 of them students. To the visitor it was a place apart from the rest of the United States. “You can get away from it all, and bury your head, just as effectively as we do in New Zealand,” he said. New Bridge Plans had been completed for an U-span bridge, 443 ft long, over the Selwyn River at Coalgate, the County Engineer (Mr W. J, Bevis) told a Malvern County Council meeting yesterday. The bridge would be two chains and a half downstream from the present bridge. The completed cost would be about $lOl,OOO, and the work should be completed in about a year from now. ‘West Coast Highway’ People were somewhat apprehensive about the word “pass” and tended to think of the Haast Pass as a deep ravine-like gorge, the outgoing manager of the Franz Josef Hotel (Mr R. W. Woodhead) said yesterday. After two years at Franz Josef, Mr Woodhead has been transferred to the Milford Hotel. Mr Woodhead said the Haast Pass highway should be renamed “West Coast highway” as part of a conscious drive to attract tourists to the region. Mr Woodhead’s successor, Mr W. Newton, arrived at Franz Josef yesterday. Mr Newton for the last four years has been house manager at the Hermitage.— (F.0.0.R.) Cruise Visit The Swedish cruise liner Kungsbolm, which called at Lyttelton last February, will visit the port again on February 15 next year on her third cruise to the Pacific. She will carry about 450 passengers from New York on the 93-day cruise. The Kungsholm will call at Mount Maunganui and Wellington as well as Lyttelton before leaving for Hobart.