General News

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 13

General News

Captain Cook Sails Two members of the crew* of the Captain Cook were missing when the ship sailed from Wellington for Glasgow at 1.45 p.m. yesterday. As The vessel pulled away from the wharf about 25 men were hanging over the side, catcalling and singing. The Captain Cook sailed empty, but will pick up 300 troops at Bermuda.—(P.A.) Question of Tidiness Glancing round what he referred to as “junk and paraphenalia,” in the Riccarton Borough Council chamber last evening, Cr. V. G. Spiller told the council that it might not be long before it (would have to ask permission of the Transport Department to use the room, which resembled a schoolroom, as a council chamber. He recalled that the council, in agreeing to allow the Transport Department to use the’ room as a training school for traffic officers, had removed photographs of former Mayors and councillors. Now the walls contained photographs of inspectors’ courses, which could be of no possible interest to the council. Around the room were easels and blackboards, maps, road plans, miniature roundabouts and toy cars. One traffic officer had even \left behind his uniform jacket and cap. The Mayor (Mr E. J. Bradshaw’) said the department would be asked to leave the room tidy. Sections For Sale Fourteen sections in and near Christchurch suburbs are available from the Lands and Survey Department under the Land Act, 1948. Situated in Fendalton, Sockbum, Northcote, Marshland and Burwood, they range in size from 44.4 to 25.4 perches. The smallest, in Creyke road, Fendalton, is also the highest priced at £950. The others are priced from £3OO. Preference for seven sections will be given to former servicemen eligible for housing loan assistance under the Rehabilitation Act. 1941. Plans may be inspected at the office of the District Lands and Survey Department, State Fire Building, Worcester street, until June 4, when applications close. The ballot will be held on June 7. Teachers’ Extra-mural Study

The New Zealand Educational Institute and the New Zealand Post-primary Teachers’ Association have asked the Senate of the University of New Zealand to receive a deputation during the senate meetings in Christchurch in August. The teachers’ organisations are seeking improved facilities for extra mural studies They suggest the establishment of a strong extra-mural department in one of the colleges, as at Armidale, New South Wales, which caters for 1000 such students. Power Shut-down

Power in the Merivale-St. Albans area was off for about 20 minutes from five minutes after midnight last night. The cause of the break in supply was “the shut-down of a small network for necessary repairs,” said the engineer-manager of the Municipal Electricity Department (Mr G. H. Battersby). Essential consumers in the area had been notified and arrangements made. House Sold for £2075 A two-storey, six-roomed house on a section of 40 perches in Wilsons road, Opawa, was sold for £2075 at an auction in Christchurch yesterday. Bidding began at £l5OO and rose by three bids of £lOO, three of £5O, and five of £25. Well Fed Animals An animal feed expert said in Chicago yesterday that cattle, sheep, poultry, and pigs eat better than humans. Dr. Sterling Brackett, of the American Cyanamid Company, told the American Feed Manufacturers Association convention: “Science has determined the precise amounts of prqteins, vitamins, and other ingre*dients required to make animals grow efficiently. Feed manufacturers have devised elaborate facilities for weighing and blending these ingredients into formula feeds. Obviously, this is not practical for humans. ... No housewife getting her husband off to work can take time to weigh and blend his breakfast ingred’ents.” Dr. Brackett said it was a good thing the human animal was “a resistant sort of beast,’’ for he had to survive the abuse he gave his system.—Chicago, May 5. Overnutrition Doctors in conference in Folkestone have been told that overnutrition was as great a danger in pregnancy as its opposite, and that in many diseases the undernourished patient had the better chance of recovery. A former Chief Medical Officer of the British Health Ministry, Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys, said that good nourishment was not always the protection against infection that it was believed to be, nor was it often an advantage. To the world health section of the annual congress of the Royal Society of Health he said that in many diseases an individual was moie likely to overcome infection if he were undernourished than if he were well nourished.—London, May 5.