GENERAL NEWS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31989, 16 May 1969, Page 10

GENERAL NEWS

Museum Additions The Canterbury Museum Trust Board was told yesterday that 35 additions had been made to the museum’s collections in the last month. Among them were a circular dining-table, made about 1830 and brought to Canterbury by Dr A. C. Barker in the Charlotte Jane, a collection of eight historical sketches by the early surveyor, Robert Park, and a silver ornament in the form of a cradle for twins which was presented on September 8, 1868, to the Mayoress of Christchurch, Mrs M. A. Wilson, by the Mayor and councillors to commemorate her giving birth to twins during the mayoralty. Gunners’ March When the Band of the 2nd Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment leads the parade of past and present artillerymen to a brief church service at the Citizen’s War Memorial on Sunday, May 25, it will play a new march, “Right Of The Line.” T t will be the first public performance of this music. It was specially written by Captain T. J. Kirk-Burnnand, the band’s director of music. Red Cross Week The first house-tu-house appeal to be held by the North Canterbury centre of the Red Cross Society on May 24 will be the main event in a special Red Cross week which will begin tomorrow. The secretary of the centre (Mr R. J. Lipscombe) said yesterday that because the appeal was the first on a house-to-house basis work had centred on it rather than on other activities. There would, however, be several shop window displays snowing the Wv?k of the society, and a radio request session would be held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday to which persons could give 20c to have a record played.

General’s Visit General R. Haines, Com-mander-in-Chief of the United States Army in the Pacific, will make a private visit to the South Island at the end of the month. He is due at Christchurch aboard his own DC7 from Honolulu on May 27. Soon after landing he will go in a Mount Cook Airlines plane to Mount Cook. General Haines, who will be accompained by Mrs Haines, will return to Christchurch the next day. Antarctic Relics Photographs and records of United State; expeditions to the Antarctic before 1954 are being, assembled for the Canterbury Museum’s Antarctic library by Dr H. Dater, president of the Antarctican Society in Washington. The society is an organisation on the lines of the New Zealand Antarctic Society. In his report to the museum trust board meeting yesterday the director (Dr R. S. Duff) said that a special appeal on behalf of the museum for equipment and clothing from the earlier American expeditions had appeared on the front page of the Antarctican Society’s first bulletin last month.

Communications Day

New Zealand, with several other countries, will observe World Communications Day tomorrow. The day commemorates the formation of the International Telecommunications Union, now an agency of the United Nations. On May 17, 1865, representatives of 20 countries signed the first international telegraph convention to enable telegraph circuits to cross national borders. Today 135 countries are members of the union. They agree to preserve intact the regulation, co-ord-ination and planning of international communications.

Port Busy The work force at the Lyttelton waterfront was short by 267 men yesterday morning, although 515 men were engaged. Vessels short-manned included the Rakaia, Teakwood and Straat Johore. The port will be busy until next week, because more ships are expected. New Firing Area Men of the Ist Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, will fire machineguns out to sea from a private area at Amberley from May 20 to May 23. It will be the first such Army practice in the area. The use of the land was negotiated between the battalion depot and a landowner. Visit By Army Head The Chief of the General Staff (Major-General R. B. Dawson) will visit Christchurch on Tuesday. During the day he will go to Burnham Military Camp, where he will discuss future commitments overseas with the commanding officer of the Ist Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. Williams). He will also see national service trainees and cadets under training and visit the annual camp of the Otago University ’ Medical Corps.