GENERAL NEWS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32233, 27 February 1970, Page 12

GENERAL NEWS

Lake Petition More then 95,000 signature ■ have been received by tin ' New Zealand Forest ■am < Bird Protection Society ii i support of its petition agains the Government's proposal ti raise Lake Manapouri.(P.A.). $lOO For Buffalo i A-cheque for $lOO whid was presented to the assistan district organiser foi C.0.R.5.0. (Mrs J. Ritchie yesterday by pupils of thi Ham School will be used t< provide a buffalo and cart foi a leper colony at VUlivak kam, in Madras. The buffalt and cart will be used to take the vegetables grown by ths lepers to the market several miles away. Mrs Ritchie said that the pupils of the school I had raised the money by col ; lecting tea coupons. It was the sixth year they had raised money for C.O.R.SX), she said. Butter Promotion The New Zealand High ■ Commissioner in London (Sii Denis Blundell) visited four South London food stores yesterday morning to see promotions of New Zealand dairy I produce. Accompanied by Lady Blundell, he visited two stores in Streatham and two in Battersea. At each store New Zealand girls wearing blue and gold sashes were drawing the attention of housewives to New Zealand butter and cheese on sale in the shops.—(Staff correspondent, P.A.). Flag For Chapel A New Zealand flag was presented to the commanding officer of McMurdo Station (Captain E. B. Rubey) on behalf of the Scout Association on Wednesday. The presentation was made by Mr R. J. Hancock, postmaster at Scott Base and a scout leader of the Karori group, in Wellington. The flag will be hung in the McMurdo Station chapel, opposite the United States flag. New Zealanders from Scott Base attend services at the chapel, and the chaplain considered that this warranted having a New Zealand flag there.—(P.A.). Broadcaster Fined Unauthorised radio broadcasting from Woodpecker Bay, between Greymouth and Westport, led to a fine of $K on Paul Colin Spencer, aged 30. of Wellington, in the West port Magistrate’s Court yester dav Mr B. L. Lovell, for ths Post Office, said that Spencei had twice been warned and I his transmitting set had beer seized. After it was returned to him last year programme! were broadcast from a sta tion he called “Happy Guy from Woodpecker Bay”; The amateur radio operators’ association had complained ■about the broadcasts. Mr A D Orchard, for the defendant. ■ said that Spender’s set, powered by torch batteries, had a range of less than a mile. He was in a very lonely area and his broadcasts could not have interfered with the national service.—(F.O.O.R.) Fewer Enrol Fewer pupils than expected had enrolled at the Papanui High School this year, the i headmaster (Mr E. Fancy) reported to a meeting of the school's board of governors ■yesterday. The present roll was 1086, consisting of 586 boys and 500 girls, instead of the more than 1100 that were expected. The decrease was attributable to fewer pupils returning to the fifth form and an unusually large number of transfers to other places of the third-form enrolments accepted. This trend was general throughout New ■ Zealand this year because of ' better employment opportunities. There had been a good increase in sixth-form numbers, however.

Farm Passed In es! Brooksdale, a 532-acre farm ae 1 at Hawarden, was passed in at id;slo6 an acre when offered at in auction on behalf of Mr W. ist J. J. Warwick on Wednesday to by the New Zealand Farm- — ers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd. The property carries nearly 2000 sheep, and has a three-bedroom house, two implement sheds, two haysheds, :h a woolshed and sheepyards, nt The Government valuation is nr $lOl an acre. s) « World Weather to ~ ir The world’s weather on k- Wednesday was Rome, sunny, Io 45 degrees minimum, 50 de:e grees ' maximum; Paris, ie cloudy, 36, 49; London, sunny, al 37, 45: Berln, overcast, 30, di36; Amsterdam, fair. 41, 46; nl Brussels, overcast, 39. 46: 1-'Madrid, sunny/ 42, 62: Mosis cow, clear, 9, 28; Stockholm, d sunny, 3, 32: San Francisco, cloudy, 54, 67; Los Angeles, I cloudy, 55, 74: Chicago, cloudy, 33, 53: Miami, cloudy, 66, 74; Tokyo, cloudy, 37, 46: Buenos Aires, clear, 72, h,90: Honolulu, cloddy, 67. 78: iriJohannesburg, fine, 63. 83: ir Singapore, fine, 74. 92: Syd•s;ney, fine, 63. 79: Melbourne. >[fine, 61, 77; Brisbane, cloudy, B3. y O