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Working Holiday
Two young Australian girls who attended the Ecumenical Youth Conference at Hamilton last month decided to abandon their plans for a holiday in the Southen Lakes .district after the conference. ;The girls who are holidaying :in New Zealand cancelled their bookings and took a job in an old people’s home. Last week they handed their unopened pay packets to the acting secretary of the National Council of Churches in Christchurch (the Rev. R. M. O’Grady) for overseas aid projects. P.O. Box Numbers All Post Office private box numbers at New Brighton, Sumner, and Woolston will be altered on February 7,8, and 10 respectively, by the addition of the figure one in front of existing numbers. The Chief Postmaster (Mr J. W. Lincoln) said the change was being made to avoid confusion with other suburban offices where private box numbers started with the same figure as the present numbers in the three offices to be changed. Hot Day The weather was cloudy and mild in Christchurch yesterday. A fresh to strong north-westerly wind brought rising temperatures with a maximum of 80 degrees, recorded at 4 p.m. at Harewood. An unseasonable light frost of four degrees was recorded there at 6 a.m. The temperature rose to 73 degrees at 9 a.m., 74 degress at noon and 79 degrees at 3 p.m. At the Botanic Gardens the temperature recorded was 79 degrees. The Government Life Building temperature gauge showed 84 degrees at 4.30 p.m. Tasman Shipping More passenger ships will cross the Tasman this year. Twenty-one liners have already been scheduled for 69 crossings between now and the end of November. Fortyone of these crossings will be between Auckland and Sydney and 16 between Wellington and Sydney. Other ports of call in Australia are Brisbane and Melbourne. The increase in traffic is necessary to ease the growing demand for passages. The liners which will make the crossings are the Orcades, Mariposa Southern Cross, Orsova and I Fairsea, the Canberra, Himalaya, Australis, Ellinis. MonItery and Northern Star.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 12
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337General News Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 12
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