GENERAL NEWS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32005, 4 June 1969, Page 12

GENERAL NEWS

New P.O. Depot A Wellington architect will be in Christchurch today to discuss structural plans for the new lines depot for the Post Office. The Regional Engineer of the Post Office in Christchurch (Mr H. W. Wilkinson) said that the architect would discuss final details for the building, and tenders would almost certainly be called before the end of this month. The depot will closely resemble the existing depot at Sockburn but will be larger. The removal of the present depot in Hereford Street will leave the way open for a start on the new postal centre. Students Defended “Before you call students long-haired, greasy, unprincipled, unmoralled louts, remember that the same thing was said of students in your day,” the assistant registrar of Waikato University, Mr J. R. Day, said to Hastings Rotarians this afternoon. ‘/Think of your own days in the armed forces and when you blew off steam,” Mr Day said. When he was at university he and seven other students went reprimanded by a professorial board for a float they entered in a capping parade. “Today three of those men are university professors, one is a prominent scientist, another a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and two are principals of large secondary schools in New Zealand.”—(P. A.)

Wigram Visitors Six secondary school headmasters from the North and South Islands are visiting the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram to study air and ground training. The headmasters are the guests of the Air Force for two days. Such visits are arranged each year. Vietnamese Course A 10-week course in Vietnamese, established at the request of the Defence Department, opened at the Wellington Polytechnic yesterday. The Polytechnic has just completed a 20-booth language laboratory and this will be used in the course. There will be 35 hours tuition a week. Ten people from the Defence Department and one member of the Department of External Affairs are studying the subject.—(P.A.) Lottery Tomorrow The Golden Kiwi lottery, No. 381,'will be drawn on Thursday.—(P.A.). Blue Bag Best

The old-fashioned washing blue bag is still the best way of treating a bee sting, according to an article in the June issue of the British medical magazine, the “Practitioner.” Dr C. A. Birch, a consulting physician at a hospital in Enfield, near London, says that the bag should be applied after the sting has been scraped out with a finger nail, or wiped out with a handkerchief. “A blue bag is as effective as some medicated creams,” Dr Birch writes.— London, June 3.