GENERAL NEWS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31967, 19 April 1969, Page 12

GENERAL NEWS

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“I have been unable to get the owner's address but I am : told that If I go to the Papanui Hotel. 1 will find him drinking there." the health inspector (Mr G. C. Roberts) told the Mount Herbert County Council yesterday in a report on a bach at Port Levy. School Committees Elections for school committees throughout the Canterbury Education Board’s area will be held over the next few weeks. On Monday biennial meetings of householders will elect committees for primary schools; committees for intermediates will be elected on the following Monday, April 28. and a week later, on May 5, elections for district high schools will be held. This year “The Press” will not print election results. Parents and householders were urged by the board yesterday to participate in the elections for the welfare of the children and the schools they attend. Conference Centre# Rotorua delegates to the Municipal Association’s conference In Christchurch have disputed the statement in “The Press" yesterday that the conference, with 700 delegates, “is so big that it cannot be held away from the four main cities.” The conference was held last year in Rotorua. Mr T. R. Woolliams, a Rotorua City councillor, said the Law Society's conference, held in Rotorua last Easter, attracted an attendance of 1800, including wives. Too Enthusiastic School children on field trips to the foreshore at Taylor's Mistake have apparently been too enthusiastic. The Canterbury Education Board at its meeting yesterday was told that it was important for teachers to emphasise conservation on these visits because otherwise the area could easily be denuded of its animals and plants. World Weather Weather throughout the world on Thursday, as compiled by the Associated Press and Reuters, was:—London, 42 degrees minimum, 52 degrees maximum. sunny; Paris, 42, 58. cloudy; Rome, 41, 64, overcast; Berlin, 34, 43, showers; Brussels, 41, 53, sunny; Madrid. 45, 69, sunny: Moscow, 36, 54, clear; Stockholm, 30. 41, snow. New York, 59, 64, rain; Montreal, 55, 61, cloudy; San Francisco, 51, 69, cloudy; Los Angeles, 55, 74, cloudy; Tokyo, 34, 47, cloudy; Singapore. 78, 91, fair: Hong Kong, 69, 74, overcast: Johannesburg. 57, 71, fine; Sydney, 57, 73, fine. White Herons Three white herons appeared in Coonoor Road, at the south end of Timaru yesterday. On occasions, said Mr C. W. Weir, of Fairview, either one or two herons frequented the Coonoor Road bridge area. Recently a white heron was seen near the Seadown Road, north of the Smithfield freezing works. For many years, before land was reclaimed at the works for development, a white heron had its habitat about the lagoon. The appearance of the three birds on Saltwater Creek created much local interest and produced the theory that the trio had migrated from the white heron colony on the West Coast to avail themselves of the “pickings” for which Saltwater Creek is notorious.— F.0.0.R.

Fishing Rivers

River reports from the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society at 9 a m. yesterday were: Waiau, clear and fishable; Hurunui, milky and unfishable; Ashley, fishable at mouth; Waimakariri Gorge, flshable, mouth discoloured; Selwyn, clear and fishable: Rakaia Gorge, dirty, mouth discoloured; Ashburton, Rangitata and Hinds, clear and fishable.

Cattle For Japan

Fifty pedigree Friesian incalf heifers bought by C. Itoh and Company (N.Z.), Ltd, will leave Auckland today in the Hokkai Maru for Japan. A representative of Wright, Stephenson and Company, Ltd, said that half the shipment was being supplied by five Waikato breeders, Messrs G. Jack (Tauhei), H G. Mickell (Tauwhare), E. R. Elliott (Te Kowhai), Hodgson Bros (Tamahere), and J. L. Cowan (Otorohanga).—(P.A.) New-Found Friend Lionel, a green, quarter-ton turtle at the Napier Aquarium, has found a friend. He has chummed up with a once-vicious parore—a blackfish—the two having become inseparable. The strange association was related by a Kaitaia veterinarian, Mr K. Thaisen, who tended Lionel three years ago at Ninetymile Beach and revisited him at Napier recently. He was told that the parore, after eight years in a tank, had suddenly become bad-temp-ered and aggressive toward other fish. It was therefore placed in the turtle pool with Lionel. Now it is docile, and snuggles between Lionel's front flippers to sleep.— (P.A.)