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Mutual Learning Maori and European needed consciously to learn from one another, said the GovernorGeneral (Sir Bernard Fergusson) when he opened Te Unga Waka. the £50,000 Auckland Catholic Maori centre, in Manukau road yesterday. Troubles of the past had all risen from ignorance and misunderstanding on both sides, said Sir Bernard Fergusson. —(P.A.). Big Puffball The puff-ball, a type of fungus most New Zealanders probably scorn in favour of the more flavoursome mushroom. can be eaten and enjoyed. Yesterday Mr and Mrs J. M. Czernohorsky of River road, Christchurch, and formerly of Vienna, walked into ‘‘The Press” office with a puffball they found near a creek in the Eyrewell forest. It measured 32in in circumference and weighed more than a pound. Mrs Czernohorsky said that provided the flesh was white it could be eaten. They said it could be cut into slices and fried, used in soup, or cooked in crumbs. Fine Week-end The weather in Christchurch over the week-end was mainly fine and sunny but a cool north-east wind yesterday kept temperatures down. On Saturday afternoon at 2.30 p.m. the wind changed to the south-west bringing heavy cloud, but no rain fell. The maximum temperature recorded at the weather office at Harewood on Saturday was 66 degrees at 3 p.m. and the maximum temperature recorded yesterday was 65 degrees at 3 p.m. The temperature reading at Harewood yesterday at 6 a.m. was 50 degrees and rose to 58 degrees at 9 a.m. At noon the reading was 64 degrees and at 3 p.m., 65 degrees. The Government Life Building temperature gauge recorded 66 degrees at 4.15 p.m. yesterday. Templeton Fete Between £7OO and £BOO was raised at a fete held at the Templeton Hospital and Training School on Saturday to raise funds for the construction of an interdenominational chapel. Work on the chapel is behind schedule because of a shortage of funds. About £3OOO is still needed to finish the £24,767 project. Ice-Breaker Leaves The last United States Navy ice-breaker which will participate in Antarctic operations as such has left McMurdo Station. She is the Atka, which is due at Lyttelton on Tuesday. The Atka and her sister ice-breakers will be transferred to the United States Coast Guard before the end of the year. When the Glacier, and two other icebreakers yet to be named, return for duty next season they will be painted all white instead of grey and will be manned by officers and men of the Coast Guard. Sabotage Fresh-water crabs are sabotaging a Malvern County Council waiter-race at Hororata by burrowing into banks and causing flooding on adjacent farm land. Suggesting that concrete pipe might be a solution, the County Engineer (Mr W. J. Bevis), at' a council meeting, also had doubts. “I suppose that as soon as the crabs find they can’t eat the concrete, they will move to either end,” he said. Track Record Two thousand, six hundred and twenty people, more than in any previous year, will have tramped the Milford track when the 1965-66 season closes in April. “And this in spite of the bad weather we had around Christmas and New Year,” the district manager of the Tourist Corporation in Dunedin (Mr H. J. Sincock) said last week. The number of trampers made heavy demands on guides and staffing and accommodation at the feeding and overnight huts along the 33-mile track, said Mr Sincock. It was being met by rescheduling some trips.—(P.A.). Transhipment If United Kingdom freight for Christchurch was unloaded at Auckland by prior arrangement and sent to Lyttelton, the total cost would be 60 per cent more than if it had gone to Auckland, and then down to Lyttelton on the same ship, said Mr E. P. Chapman, in Christchurch on Friday. He was speaking at a shipping and trade conference. He was asked by the chairman of the Shaw Savill Line (Mr J. A. MacConochie) if this meant that overseas shipping companies coastal freight rates in New Zealand were too low. Mr Chapman: No. The coastal freights are too high.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 14
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675General News Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 14
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