General News

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31981, 7 May 1969, Page 16

General News

Surprise Reunion The Governor-General (Sir Arthur Porritt)’ has met a member of the 1936 New Zealand Olympic team whom he had not seen since the squad disbanded on its return from Berlin. Mr C. H. Mathews, who then lived in Christchurch, was a member of the seven-man team of which Sir Arthur Porritt was manager. A teacher at Dilworth School, Mr Mathews was in front of his class yesterday morning when the Governor-General, on an official visit, walked in. “They hadn’t told him 1 was there, but he recognised me immediately,” said Mr Mathews. “He was quite surprised.”— (P.A.) Progress At Osaka The Minister of Overseas Trade (Mr Marshall), who is chairman of the New Zealand Commission for Expo 70, said today that work on the New Zealand pavilion was progressing satisfactorily, and it was expected that the main contract would be completed well before the October deadline. —(PA.)-. “Improvement” The recent imposition, of a speed limit of 40 miles an hour through Dunsandel township bad done a great deal to improve traffic conditions there, and there had been no more complaints, the District Commissioner of Works (Mr D. A. Lane) said at the annual meeting yesterday of the No. 14 District Roads Council. There was still some difficulty because of the Main South Road curve, the railway yard and the cross-road, but at such intersections there would be increasing difficulties for crossing and turning traffic. Drivers would just have to be | patient, he said. Gift To Home | The Christchurch Rotary Club yesterday gave $220 to the Cholmondeley Children’s Home after Mr C. L. Paterson, chairman of the board which administers the home, had explained the work being done. Magazine Sales Canterbury students expect to sell about 50,000 copies of this year’s “Capping Mag" by the time sales are completed today. Full returns from outlying areas had not been received last evening, but almost 33,000 copies had been sold at 30c each in Christchurch and Lyttelton, as well as 4000 in Timaru, 3000 on the West Coast and 4500 in Kaiapoi, Rangiora and Ashburton. Students have also been selling the magazines in Blenheim, Nelson and Kaikoura. “It has been a little disappointing, as we hoped to sell about 54,000 copies,” Mr A. Buchanan, the controller of sales, said yesterday. Ripa Is. Barracks The former Army barracks at Battery Point has been made available at no cost to the Sumner-Redcliffs subbranch of the Navy League for use at Ripa Island. The building. 100 ft by 26ft, will be re-erected as an accommodation block at the Training Ship Fort Jervois. Red Cross Parade Members of the Red Cross Society and representatives of the armed forces and local bodies will attend the annual church parade and service of the North Canterbury centre of the Red Cross Society in St Barnabas’ Church, Fendalton, on Sunday afternoon. The sermon will be preached by the vicar of . Fendalton (the Rev. R. A. Lowe). He will be assisted in the service by the Rt Rev. G. V. Daly, a vice-president of the centre’s executive committee. The secretary of the centre (Mr R. J. Lipscombe) said that the offering at the service would be given to the Red Cross Crippled Children’s Home in Changi, Singapore. Lottery Draw The Golden Kiwi Lottery No. 377 will be drawn tomorrow.—(PA) Bomb Exploded An Army demolition squad yesterday exploded a bomb of Japanese origin on Te Kouma Beach, Coromandel. The bomb found on Sunday, was about five feet long and 14 inches across and had obviously been in the water for a long time. -(PA). Emergency Flight A Melbourne child seriously ill with a faulty heart valve will be flown to Christchurch next Wednesday by a United States Military Airlift Command Starlifter jet for an emergency operation at Auckland. The .child will probably be flown, to Auckland by a Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft.