General News

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 16

General News

Growing Old “A man is old when he goes into a restaurant and looks at the menu before he looks at the waitress’s legs,” said Mr H. E. Denton, chairman of the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board, during a brief discussion on the question of age at the board’s meeting yesterday. “And you're old,” he added, “when the first thing you look at in the newspaper is the obituary column.” Sub-standard Milk The chairman of the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board (Mr H. E. Denton) and the board’s supervisor officer (Mr A. P. Millthorpe) will call on the Minister of Health (Mr McKay) today to discuss action over the supply of sub-standard milk. Mild Day Mainly cloudy conditions with light north-easterly winds and fluctuating temperatures persisted in Christchurch yesterday. The temperature at Harewood at 6 a.m. was 50 degrees, rising through 62 degrees at 9 a.m. to a maximum temperature of 75 degrees by noon. By 3 p.m. the temperature had fallen to 72 degrees at Harewood and 71 degrees at the Botanic Gardens. A further drop in temperature of two degrees was recorded by the gauge on the Government Life building at 4.15 p.m. University Tours The University of Canterbury has a long waiting list for conducted tours of its city and Ham properties. Begun last year, these became popular with the public and clubs as a convenient way of seeing developments. The Student Guide Service which conducts the tours is seeking seven additional recruits among senior students. Special Exams The following results of special examinations, announced by the Pharmacy Board, are subject to confirmation by official result cards: Passed section C: G. T. Matheson (Christchurch). Passed stage II: L. McD. Keown (Blenheim), W. J. Stevens (Timaru).—(P.A.). Trawler Due The £87,000 trawler bought by the Government from a Norwegian fishing company will arrive in Auckland on Wednesday. The 92ft stern ramp vessel, the Hemnestral. will be used for technological research, training young fishermen and fishing in distant waters. It will be based in Auckland most of the time. The Hemnestral was built in Norway in 1962 and used as a deepsea trawler.—(P.A.). Students’ Travel A students’ travel bureau is being established at the University of Canterbury, with a part-time travel officer on duty two hours for five days a week. Initiated by the New Zealand University Students’ Association, the bureau will make arrangements for individual or group travel. Initiative Through the initiative of trainees in the twelfth national service intake at Burnham military camp, the Canterbury-West Coast branch of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society was recently able to buy a new wheelchair. The cost of the chair was covered by £5l brought to the branch office by two ! national servicemen. This sum, they said, represented the proceeds from two concerts which the boys had organised at Burnham. The success of the concerts was partly attributed to performances by a national serviceman, John Here, the popular country-and-western singer. £B6 For Widow A total of £B6 14s has been given to Mrs M. A. Gray, a 72-year-old widow pensioner whose house in Sydenham was burgled early last Tuesday morning. Mrs Gray, who is a diabetic and is partly blind and deaf, had £l7 19s 3d stolen from beside her bed, leaving her only £4 on which to live for a month. Symphathisers had given £36 2s by Friday evening, and during the week-end and yesterday a further £5O 12s was received by the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind. Nine-fold Increase By the end of last year, its thirtieth in operation, the Canterbury-West Coast branch of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society was helping almost exactly nine times as many registered members as in its first year. The inaugural meeting of the branch was held on July 31, 1935, and the first annual report, dated March 31, 1936, recorded the number of members as 86. Between April and December 1965, membership increased from 736 to 773, the highest i total yet.