General News

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32077, 27 August 1969, Page 12

General News

Police Radio A request from the Police Department for permission to erect a 50ft hardwood aerial pole at the Cass Peak radio station on the Port Hills was queried at a meeting yesterday of the Christchurch Regional Planning Authority. The police said the aerial was needed for e second channel to give better mobile patrol services, but the authority, saying it had reasons to believe locations other than Cass Peak might be suitable, asked the departemnt whether alternative sites had been considered. Nautical Exhibits The nautical exhibition held on board the sea cadet training ship Cornwall last weekend earned $3OO. which will go towards paying for a 22ft motor-boat used to take sea cadets to the training camp on Ripa Island. About 1500 persons visited the display, which was organised by the Sumner-Redcliffs branch of the Navy League. Because of tiie success of the display it will be open again from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. from today till Friday and on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. At the week-end rides in the motor-boat will be available from 1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Service Centres Proposals for the establishment of service centres on the rural sections of the Christchurch motorways were adopted by the Christchurch Regional Planning Authority yesterday for submissions to the councils concerned and the Automobile Association. The centres would provide information, refreshments and rest rooms for drivers and passengers and fuel and minor repairs for vehicles. Rotary Gift A $2OOO tractor for the Niue Development Board was loaded in the Union Steam Ship Company’s Tofua yesterday at Auckland. Al! 40 South Island Rotary Clubs—which make up district 298 of Rotary International—bought the tractor. The gift is part of Rotary’s programme of world community service.— (P-A.) Lincoln Facilities

The pressure on the very limited facilities for students at Lincoln College was reaching the stage where serious problems were developing, the principal (Dr M. M. Burns)

reported to the college council yesterday. It would be necessary to modify the refectory operations to cope with the increased number of students next year. Stop-gap adjustments would be needed in Hudson Hall and the library. Authority to call tenders for the lecture-theatres

block was expected next month so that two large theatres would be available for 1971. Tenders for the accommodation for the meat inspectors' courses would be accepted very soon. Caviar Order The Soviet Union’s commercial counsellor at the Auckland international trade fair, Mr A L Naumove, said yesterday that he had received inquiries from a New Zealand importer who wanted $160,000 worth of caviar and canned fish from the U.S.S.R. The order could not be confirmed until the importer obtained an import licence. Soviet exhibitors have sold goods and equipment worth $170,000 at the fair.—(PA.) Whitebait Stands Thirty-six persons have registered stands on the Taramakau River for the whitebait season which will open next month. A ter, sites remain but these are not in particularly good positions. This is the first year in which the Customs Department in Greymouth has handled whitebait stand registrations: formerly It was done for the Marine Department by the police.— (F.0.0.R.)