General news

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32636, 18 June 1971, Page 8

General news

gi Christchurch meeting ~

The full board of directors of the National Airways Corporation held its monthly meeting in Christchurch yesterday. It was last held in the city on May 1, 1968. It is part of the board’s policy to move about the country. While in the city board members inspected branch facilities at the airport and in the city centre and saw the new automated reservations system in action. Return of musk-ox Musk-ox, which have been extinct in Europe for at least 10,000 years, have been bred again in Britain. The beasts, quite common in Europe and Britain until the end of the Ice Age, now live in the wild only in northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland. In 1965 two yearling females and a young bull were imported to England from a game farm at Alberta, Canada, and an older bull was imported in 1967. Two male calves were bom at Whipsnade Park in 1969 and a third calf is expected to be bom soon. Museum acquisitions Papers, including a manuscript description of Ashburton in the early 1880 s, sketches of Ashburton and Southbridge about that time, notes on Maoris and Australian Aborigines, and letters from Bishop Harper are among recent acquisitions by the Canterbury Museum. They were among papers of the late Rev. A. W. Hands, vicar of Ashburton in 1881-82, and were presented to the museum by his grand-daughter, Mrs N. MacLeod, of Kent, England. A framed water colour of Park Terrace, Christchurch, by R. W. Fereday, in 1889, has been deposited on loan by Mr R. R. Laidlaw of the Canterbury Society of Arts; and the museum has obtained a copy of the film “A Good Place For a Milkshake,” screened on television last October,- to mark the museum’s centenary. Stamp withdrawal The 2jc magpie moth stamp, for which there has been virtually no demand since the new postage rates were introduced on February 15, will be overprinted with 4c and used to augment supplies of the 4c puriri moth stamp, which are nearly exhausted. The 2ic stamp will be withdrawn from sale on June 30. It then may be obtained from the philatelic sales section, Christchurch. Parcels to Sweden Parcels containing foodstuffs and other perishable goods may now be posted to Sweden, the Chief Postmaster (Mr M. T. Reedy) said yesterday. Because of an industrial dispute in Sweden, involving certain groups of Customs and Railway staff, the public had been advised earlier not to post such parcels. Hotel for sale It was not the intention of New Zealand Breweries, Ltd, to develop the site of the former Club Hotel in Stafford Street, Timaru, the company’s property manager, Mr H. H. Forward, of Wellington, said this week. It had been put on the market and was in the hands of a Timaru land agent, he said. —(F.0.0.R.).