General News

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32382, 22 August 1970, Page 12

General News

Synthetic Beef “Anyone will be free to : market synthetic beef next year if, as I suspect, it loses the protection of patent,” a world authority on beef production, Dr E. J. Warwick, said in Palmerston North yesterday. Dr Warwick, director of the Animal Husbandry Research Division of the United States Department of Agriculture, has been asked what type of threat to beef sales came from the soya beanbased synthetic. Dr Warwick said he could not answer the question, but added that the synthetic—originally developed as a diet food—had not yet reached a very high level. “Some of them are not too bad, and some of them are not too good, in my opinion,” he said. “But some artificial ham and chicken goes well in sandwiches,” he said. —(P.A.) Post Office Guide The 1970 edition of the Post Office Guide is now on sale. The guide gives details of all major Post Office services, including postal, telephone, telegraph, overseas telecommunications and savings bank branches. For the first time the guide contains information about new services such as the Datel data transfer service, the conditions covering Post Office Bonus bonds and national development bonds, gift tokens and travellers' cheques. Changes in services and rates are also given. Collectors’ Identification All those collecting the Jaycee “cent-a-meal” boxes in Christchurch today will be wearing diamond-shaped identity tags on their lapels, the organiser of the campaign in Christchurch (Mr D. J. W. Hampton), said yesterday. He said that if a collector had no identification he should not be given the box. Any boxes not collected may be handed in at any chemist’s shop next week. Words, Meaning Of The heading to a newsletter to be sent out to the South Canterbury Electric Power Board’s consumers in October reads: “It’s Lovely to be Lit Up in Your Own Home." Asked by Mr A. A. Solomon, a Timaru City member on the board, for an interpretation, the general manager (Mr J. A. Warner), lost no time in telling the monthly meeting of the board on Thursday that the heading was not his, that he had “borrowed” if from a pamphlet.—(F.O.O.R.). Museum Additions Recent additions to the collections of the Canterbury Museum included an early painting of the Addington junction railway station, painted by the Christchurch artist George Turner in 1879, the director of the museum (Dr R. S. Duff) told the monthly meeting of the museum trust board. The oil painting was bought at a recent Christchurch auction sale and had great historical interest, said Dr Duff. It would be displayed in the Hall of Colonial Settlement. Two Maori adzes and a Maori feather cloak of kiwi and native pigeon feathers had also been given to the museum, he said. Personal Items Dr B. Lee, Director of Technical Education since 1965, has been awarded a senior Imperial Relations Trust Fellowship. He is the first person working in technical education to receive the award. Dr Lee will spend a year after his retirement in October at the University of London Institute of Education studying the effects of the British Industrial Training Act and its influence on the work of Britain’s technical colleges.

Mr 1. Menzies, of Menzies Bush, Little Akaloa, has been appointed a lay canon of Christchurch Cathedral Mr Menzies’s family built the church at Little Akaloa; he has been active in church affairs for many years. A church warden and lay reader, Mr Menzies has been a Synodsman and a member of the Christchurch committee on church union; some time ago toured mission stations in Melanesia. Mr R. S. J. Barton, formerly of the Riccarton branch of the Australia and New Zealand Bank, has been admitted to the Institute of Bankers, London, as an associate member. Mr Barton was recently transferred to Australia. The institute is a world organisation and membership in it is the recognised professional qualification for bankers.

Messrs E. W. Arnold, T. J. Crocker, Z. Georgieff, D. Grundy, P. S. Murray, S. R. Roberts, and M. Shrimpton, with two Heathcote Riding members of the Heathcote County Council, ex-officio, have been appointed the Heathcote Domain Board by the Minister of Lands (Mr Maclntyre). The Rev. D. W. Edmonds, an independent Methodist minister who is the director of the Christian Faith Centre in Christchurch, has left New Zealand to attend a convocation of united Methodists for the recovery of scriptural evangelical Christianity, in Dallas, Texas. He will also visit the Netherlands, England and Canada. Mr M. McFetridge, who has been supervisor of farm dairy instruction for the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, will retire this week after 29 years service with the department. His successor is Mr A. Stevenson, formerly a Dairy Division special inspector in Christchurch.