Items Of General Interest

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 6106, 26 September 1947, Page 4

Items Of General Interest

Two Cars in Collision. Early in the week -two cars came into collision at the intersection of Lake and Queen Streets. They were driven respectively by Leslie Vickers and Mr J. D. Wilson, of Thornton Road. Both vehicles were damaged, but neither driver, was injured: Geneva a Delightful Spot. .

“Geneva is a delightful spot and I quite understand representatives sent there not being in a hurry to leave it,” said Mr W. Norman Perry; in the course of an address to the , business people of Cambridge on'Monday evening last. “There was plenty of food there, too. Of course it is Switzerland, a hard currency country.” Radio Station for Hamilton.

At a meeting .of ; Council of . the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce this week a statement was made that the Government proposed to provide a combined commercial and national broadcasting station in Hamilton. Jt .was stated that broadcasting authorities have obtained temporary premises in the basement of the Hamilton City Council Offices. Off to Meet The President.

At 5.20 p.m. today a bus containing a party of Hamilton Rotarians' will stop at Cambridge to pick up fourteen members of the Cambridge Club: The party is off to Rotortia to meet the Rotary International Chief, President S. Kendrick Guernsey.' As previously reported the visiting • President 1 ! &nd his wife, Mfs Hdythe Willmake a short stay in Cambridge on Sunday and will be the guests of the Cambridge Club at the residence cf the local President and his wife,’ Mr and Mrs Frank T. Ray. ' . ' •- ' • - - / f "... . ‘ ' An Old Story.

“I am sorry to hear again the old story that the South Island doe& not receive as much publicity as the North Island,” said Mr W. A. Pickford, of Jbe Government' Tpuript Department, at a meeting of 'the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce. “The heads of our department have comnionsense, and tyiey are not likely to lay themselves open to criticism of this nature. Actually over the last ten years the South Island has probably had more than its full share .of publicity.”