NEWS OF THE DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26199, 9 July 1946, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Severe Frost The most severe frost of the winter was experienced in Dunedin and the suburbs yesterday. 9.3 deg. being recorded at Roslyn. Plumbers had a particularly busy morning attending to damaged taps, pipes and tanks, those in exposed positions, such as on roofs, being the chief sufferers. There was also a heavy haze which enveloped many parts of the city until almost mid-day. In consequence, many motorists found it expedient to use their headlights to find their way about the city streets. Bonspiel at Naseby The Central Otago Curling Association has decided that the bonspiel will be held at Naseby to-morrow and on Thursday. Taxi Over Bank When trying to avoid running over a cat in Kaio lane, a narrow street at the back of the Port Chalmers Peninsula, a taxi-driver had the misfortune to go over a steep bank on Sunday night, his car falling about five feet and finishing with its wheels in .the air among some bushes. The driver received only minor injuries, but had to be extricated from his predicament by means of a ladder. The taxi received some damage to the body work, and the cat escaped with a fright. Debt to the Greeks “ There have been New Zealand lads on many of these islands, escaping from Northern Greece,” writes one of the C.0.R.5.0. workers in Greece, Miss W. W McGregor, of Wanganui, who is with a public health team based on the island of Syros in the Cyclades. It warms your heart to hear how well loved they were. We feel it a privilege to reap the benefit of their sacrifice. Many Greeks suffered imprisonment for befriending New Zealanders, and both as a people and individually I feel we ow§ all Greeks a great debt. Motor Registration Branch Although the oil fuel restrictions have been lifted, the chief potmaster (Mr Ernest J. Smith) said yesterday that it was still necessary to have a motor section to deal with the issue ot tyre licences and other matters affecting motorists. It had been decided therefore to transfer the motor registration branch from the money order office to the rooms previously occupied by the oil fuel branch on the third floor so that the whole of the records relating to motor vehicles might be under the one control, and motorists would be able to transact all thenbusiness in the one office. Housebreaker Interrupted

Quick thinking and acting by a householder resulted in the arrest of a young man suspected of housebreaking at the week-end. Ronald Charles White, of Epsom, heard the sound of breaking glass in a neighbour’s house, which was vacant, and he investigated hashing a torch on a man who ran away: White later toured the district in a car, and held up a suspect with an air pistol until the police arrived. It is stated that the police found in the suspect’s possession a bottle of chloroform. cotton wool, a rubber trunqieon lined with steel, skeleton keys and pieces of wire. Returning to Dominion American servicemen who were stationed in New Zealand all speak very highly of the Dominion and many are determined to return here to live. This information is brought by the Rev. L. Sale-Harrison, who has arrived from the. United States to give a series of lectures in Dunedin. They spoke highlj of New Zealand's great beauty and excellent climate. Dr Sale-Harrison said, and they were greatly taken with the hospitality of her people Many of the better type of servicemen were determined to return to New Zealand to take up residence, and they meant it, too. As for tourists, they would also be coming, but they would wait till the summer. They could not stand New Zealand in winter with no central heating, he added, as he drew his coat more tightly around him ana looked at the frosted window-panes.

New York’s Huge Cathedral The Cathedral Appeal Office in Wellington has just received some details of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York. In a letter dated June 10 the Rev. Canon Thomas A. Sparks advises that the cathedral in all its stages—and it is now about twoIhirds completed —has been entirely free from debt. The site was secured and a campaign started to raise the necessary funds. Building has only been done when the money was m hand. So far. 10.000.000 dollars have been spent, and it is likely that another 10,000.000 will be required. An interesting feature is that the material has cost about 10 per cent, only of the total, the other costs going into wages. The cathedral will be America’s great church edifice, with a seating capacity of 15.000 and standing room for 40,000.