General News

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31755, 12 August 1968, Page 12

General News

Leper Funds

The Mission to Lepers raised 52834 in a house-to-house appeal conducted in various parts of Canterbury on Saturday. Miss M. G. Titheridge. the secretary for the Christchurch area of the mission, said there were still several totals to be returned from outlying areas. In the Christchurch City area, $2300 was collected from about 10,000 homes: $865 was collected in Ashburton, $142 in Kaiapoi, $335 in Leeston and $134 in Scuthbridge. Part of the funds will go towards the financing of a surgical team for Indonesia, the responsibility for which lies with the New Zealand and Australian branches of the mission. At Home

The Beckenham Post Office won some public attention in England recently when its photograph was published in a prominent newspaper. The accompanying article headed “At home—in New Zealand” told readers that an English visitor had been to the New Zealand Beckenham during a business visit with her husband last February. At the time the temperature had been above 90 degrees. “The New Zealand Beckenham bears little resemblance to our Beckenham—it is hotter, smaller and more modern,” she wrote. House Viewing The Canterbury Society of Arts has arranged a second tour of architecturally noteworthy homes in Christchurch on October 12. The first was in February. Seven homes in the Fendalton area had been selected, said the president of the society (Mr S. E. Mair). Another tour might include homes on the hills. The tours were available only to members of the society and their friends, he said.

Airline Investment

Air New Zealand has doubled its investment in Fiji Airways from $63,000 to $126,875 along with Qantas, the British Overseas Airways Corporation and the Fiji Government, the three other major shareholders. The Tongan Government and the Western Pacific High Commission have also become shareholders.