General News

Press, Volume C, Issue 29513, 15 May 1961, Page 10

General News

Mr Nash Recites The Leader of Ute Opposition (Mr Nash), after opening the festival of the Hutt Valley Competitions Society on Saturday evening, gave tour recitations to competitors in the speech section of the competitions. The recitations were "Opportunity”— “I don’t know who it’s by,” Mr Nash said, “it’s just one of those things that's stuck in my mind”—"Capture of a Fugitive Slave near Washington” by James Russell [Lowell. and two others. Mr Nash said he had not Deen in any competitions or learned elocution. “The pieces have been favourites of mine for about 30 or 40 years, especially the one by Lowell. I consider him the greatest of all American poets.”—(P.A.) “I Have A Pilot” When the 26.463-ton, Shaw Savill and Albion passenger liner. Dominion Monarch, arrives off the heads this morning, there should be no necessity for her to hoist the international G flag (“I re- [ quire a pilot”), and presumably the international H flag (“I have a pilot aboard”) will be flown. The Lyttelton Harbourmaster (Captain A. R. Champion), who has been visiting Whangarei, is returning aboard the liner, as a passenger, from Auckland. Council Vacancy The nomination of Mr R M. Macfarlane, M.P., as the Labour Party’s candidate for the Christchurch City Council vacancy, caused by the death of Mr W. J. Cowles, was lodged on Friday afternoon It is reported that a Social Credit candidate may contest the election and that there is also a possibility of an independent standing. Evening Out An evening out was had jby 42 delegates to the New i Zealand geological conference at Te Anau when a ’launch taking them on a trip [on Lake Manapouri broke (down at about 4.30 p.m. on Saturday. The party was on Pomona Island collecting (samples when the launch ;Sea Prince, owned by the [Manapouri and Doubtful ’Sound Tourist Company, ran a gearbox bearing. The party remained on shore and lit I bonfires until another launch ’arrived at 7.30 p.m. to tow the Sea Prince back to Manapouri township. The (party travelled back on the Sea Prince, arriving at 9 p.m. —(P.A.) Woman Justice For the first time for some years a woman Justice of the Peace was on the Bench of [the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning. She is i Mrs A. Schumacher, who was [with Mr W. A. Calwell. J.P. (A fine was imposed on a charge of assault, and a man [remanded until Thursday on a theft charge. The Court roster of Justices of the (Peace is organised and apIproved by the Canterbury branch of the Justices of the Peace Association. Justices are selected from those willing to sit in the Magistrate’s Court. Cattle In Delhi Delhi, the Indian capital, still had 30.000 cattle —most of them buffaloes—in the city itself, India’s Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture (Mr M, V. Krishnappa) said in Christchurch last evening. He is on a tour of this country studying the dairying industry. Warning To Scouts Boy scouts are warned against using plastic tents in a recent issue of the boy scouts’ magazine, “Be Prepared.” The article says that these tents form a comple’e air seal if closed in, and even the normal practice of leaving the door open at night can be dangerous. If the tent partly collapses, unknown to the person inside, and the doorway is sealed ! the lack of air could result in death.