General News

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30978, 7 February 1966, Page 12

General News

Hot Week-end

Temperatures were high in Christchurch during the week-end. Saturday was fine, and 13 hours of sunshine was recorded. The maximum temperature of 82 degrees was reached at Harewood at midday, a light north-east-erly breeze keeping the temperatures down in the afternoon. A moderate northwesterly brought warm temperatures and high cloud to Christchurch yesterday. At 1 p.m. the maximum temperature. 86 degrees, was recorded at Harewood. The temperature gauge on the Government Life building registered 81 degrees at 4.30 p.m. Haast Road Traffic More than 9000 motorvehicles used the Haast Pass road last month, an average of 300 a day. The Ministry of Works counter was in operation throughout the month, but it is now being used on other roads in South Westland.—(F.O.O.R.)

Growing Town Less than 16 months after the Ministry of Works started work on the site of the Tongariro power development town of Turangi, 150 houses are occupied and 200 more are being built. Between 800 and 900 houses will be needed before the new town reaches its peak population of 6000 to 7000 within five years. The town will have no power or telephone poles. All services will be underground except those for street lighting. Polar Philatelist The postal clerk at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station, who has cancelled more than 35,000 letters with South Pole cachets for stamp collectors, has become a stamp collector himself. Before he arrived at the Pole on October 24 he was not interested in stamps: now he has a collection of more than 100 stamps from all parts of the world. Hospital Corpsman D. Sullivan, a member of the summer support unit, works in the station’s sick bay and is also in charge of the ship’s store. Every summer mail is flown to the Pole from McMurdo Station. This season Corpsman Sullivan has received requests for the Pole cancellation and cachet from collectors in more than 40 countries. They send letters with self-addressed stamped envelopes enclosed.

Noon Weather Noon weather in the four main centres yesterday was: Auckland, 72 degrees, fine, northerly: Wellington, 66, partly cloudy, northerly; Christchurch, 84, cloudy, north-westerly; Dunedin, 81, north-westerly.—(P.A.)