GENERAL NEWS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31974, 29 April 1969, Page 14

GENERAL NEWS

Hay In Demand Baled hay is in strong demand after the long dry summer and autumn. A stock and station firm reported yesterday that lucerne hay had been sold for $1.20 a bale at a clearing sale at Styx. Meadow hay brought 95c and oaten hay 80c. Lucerne hay was sold for $1.25 a bale at an Ashburton sale last week and similar hay is reported to have been sold at 51.50 a bale at Amberley. In a normal season lucerne brings 60c to 65c a bale and meadow 50c to 60c. Waiinairi Fires The Waimairi County Council's contribution to the running of the Christchurch Metropolitan Fire Board’s fire - fighting expenses amounted to about one-third |of the City Council’s contriIbution, said Mr D. B. Rich, a member of the board and (chairman of the county council, at the board's annual meeting yesterday. But fire calls to the county numbered about only one-fifth of the calls within the city. And city calls were more expensive because more engines had to be used. “I mention this for the information of members —it is all in the estimates,” Mr Rich said. Research Grants Two research grants from the National Roads Board were announced at a meeting yesterday of the Council of the University of Canterbury. Research into soil properties under earthquake loading will be financed by a $4500 bursary to a student reading for a Ph.D. in the university’s department of civil engineering. Another $5OO will be made available for expenses. A grant of $9OO has also been made for research equipment for a senior lecturer in civil engineering. Mr T. A. H. Dodd. The council was told that a research grant of $2OOO had been made from the Vernon Willey Trust for Dr R. B. Keey, senior lecturer in the chemical engineering department, to survey the problem of the drying of ‘slipe wool. World Weather The world's weather on Sunday, according to cable reports, was:—Rome, 43 degrees minimum, 74 degrees maximum, sunny: Paris, 50, 63, sunny; London, 46, 55, sunny; Berlin, 46, 59, overcast: Amsterdam, 43, 57, sunny: Brussels, 50, 62, sunny: Madrid, 54, 68, cloudy; Moscow, 36. 53, sunny; Stockholm, 39, 55, rain; New York, 56, 80, clear; San Francisco, 51, 67, clear; Los Angeles, 57, 84, clear: Tokyo, 51, 65, clear: Buenos Aires, 59, 79, rain; Singapore, 75, 88. fine: Hong Kong, 70, 81, fine: Johannesburg, 53, 62, fine. Money For Games The Riccarton Borough Council last evening agreed Ito pay $4OOO to Canterbury ■ Commonwealth Games Promotion provided the games are held in Christchurch in 1974 and that if they are not held the money will be returned to !the council. The amount will be paid at $BOO a year for (the next five years, based on ■a levy of 55c a head of population. Cook Symposium The New Zealand historian. Professor John Beaglehole, considered the world’s leading authority on Captain : Cook and his work, will be one of the main speakers at a symposium in Canberra i next week. The one-day sym- . poslum will be the first event , in celebrations marking the ’ bi-centenary of Cook's discovj ery and exploration of Ausl tralia's eastern coastline. It 1 has been arranged for next , Thursday to coincide with the I transit of Venus, which Cook , observed from Tahiti in 1769 l(on behalf of the Royal So- | ciety.—(P.A.)

No Paper Bags A recommendation by its: . works and town hall com-j j mittee that the use of paper . bags for the rubbish collecI tion should not be adopted > was accepted by the Riccar- ’ ton Borough Council last j evening. It was reported that: . rates would be 5 or 6 peri t cent if the scheme was) c adopted, and this was not; /{Considered justifiable. "( Unity In York ; Cardinal Suenens. Arch- • bishop of Malines, Belgium, who preached in the Angli-t can Cathedral of York yes- ■ terday. was the first Romani Catholic cardinal to do so for ■ more than 450 years. He tin-i ' veiled a plaque in York Min i sister to commemorate the; - Malines Conversations, an 1 early dialogue between the; ■ Anglican and Roman Cathos I lie Churches from 1921 to! I 1926. The then Lord Halifax • and the late Cardinal Mer1 j cier, of Malines, took part, ; J (and the present Lord Halifax; 1 was among the congregation 1 l (of 600 who attended yester1 day’s service.—York. April 28.! J, A.A.C. Membership f! Membership of the Auto ■(mobile Association (Canter bury) was now 68.655, the association’s council was told on Thursday. This included 428 members elected on t Thursday. I i Transfer Of I.D.D. ' The transfer of the indusj trial development department , of the university to the Dej partment of Scientific and In- , dustrial Research had been ' formally announced by the ’ department, the Vice-Chancel-J lor (Professor N. C. Phillips) reported to a meeting yesj terday of the University [ Council. The transfer had I been recommended by the National Research Advisory j Council in 1966. he said. The f university had ambiguous, , feelings about the transfer. p as the department was a link r between the industrial com- , munity and the university. , “But it must not be taken as f any slackening of interest in industry and we will continue' to give all the assistance we can to industry in Canterbury and New Zealand,” Pro- , fessor Phillips said. Tua Tua Soup 5 The first shipment of a new ' soup made from tua tua, a ’ shellfish similar to toheroa, will go to Australia in the ’ next two weeks. The soup was .’ displayed at the Milan inter- ’. national trade fair in Italy earlier this month. Referring ’ to criticism of the label used ’ then, Mr J. C. Elliott, man- ■ ager of the manufacturing : firm in Auckland, said there j had been no attempt to mis- ’ lead the public. After the trade in Britain had tested samples, it had asked that the words "toheroa style” hi j added as tua tua was un . known there. There was no ? intention of claiming it asl "j toheroa soup. The label was 3 ; being reprinted to overcome , objections.—(P.A.)