General News

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30980, 9 February 1966, Page 12

General News

Good Catches Several North Canterbury fishermen have been having marked success in their quests for salmon from the Waimakariri river during recent weeks. A little over a fortnight ago an Oxford angler, Mr Colin Handley, caught one weighing 301 b. Then yesterday two Rangiora men caught three “beauties” between them. The biggest weighed 281 b. and the other two 261 b and 151 b respectively. Warmer Day Temperatures were moderate and the sky was mainly overcast in Christchurch yesterday. The temperature at Harewood rose steadily from 57 degrees at 6 a.m. to 59 degress at 9 a.m., and 61 degress at mid-day. By 3 p.tn. it had risen to 64 degrees both at Harewood and the Botanic Gardens. The sky cleared in the mid-afternoon, but a light north-easterly kept the temperature at 64 degress until 4.15 p.m. The temperature gauge on the Government Life building registered 66 degrees at 4.30 p.m. Flight Covers Cargoes of two first-flight covers, the last i<n a series of seven, will be on board Air New Zealand DCB aircraft when inaugural flights are made to Hong Kong and Singapore in March and April. Envelopes will be stamped with a special cancellation cachet and back-stamped at Hong Kong or Singapore. Application forms for the covers may be obtained from AitNew Zealand, Qantas, and 8.0.A.C. until February 21 for the Hong Kong flight on March 3, and until March 25 for the Singapore flight on April 6. N.Z. Books The Oxford University Press intends to publish several New Zealand books soon and to print more books in New Zealand, the publisher to the University of Oxford (Mr John Brown) said in Auckland yesterday New Zealand books being published this year include L. B. Quartermain’s “South to the Pole,” a study of early explorers, a new volume of New Zealand short stories edited by C. K. Stead, and a new book of verse “Pig Island,” by James K. Baxter. Mr Brown, who arrived in Auckland at the week-end, will leave for Wellington and Christchurch on Friday morning. He will meet writers, Oxford staff, look at the future possibilities and means of improving service here.