General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31113, 16 July 1966, Page 14

General News

Last Day The exhibition of designs in the Christchurch Town Hall competition will close this evening. Since the display was opened more than 5000 have inspected the plans and drawings. Adze Found An old Maori adze weighing about 31b and measuring 12in by 9in at the base has been found near Granville forest, in the Totara Flat district, more than 30 miles east of Greymouth. Of hard sandstone, the adze had been sharpened on both sides. The finder intends to send it to the Canterbury Museum. — (F.0.0.R.) New Premises The regiona* office of the Department of Civil Aviation will move into its new premises—the top floor of the Christchurch Drainage Board building in Cambridge terrace —on July 30. The transfer involves the movement of several tons of office equipment and a staff of 16. Originally the staff had expected to move from its Gloucester street offices on July 23, the day on which the Lions play Canterbury. The news of the week’s delay was welcomed by men on the staff yesterday. Toboggan Race The leader at Scott Base (Mr M. Prebble), finished third in the first motor-tobog-gan grand prix held at McMurdo Station recently. The event, watched by a crowd from both bases, was held on a “raceway” on the Ross Ice Shelf. United States Antarctic research programme staff came first and second. Five toboggans were entered, but mechanical trouble put the VX6 Squadron’s entry out, and one of the four which started ran into a large patch of sastrugi. The winner was presented with a shiny oil can, suitably inscribed. After the race there was a spectacular fireworks display and dinner. Cold Day The weather in Christchurch yesterday was fine but cold. The morning was calm, but during the afternoon a light east wind blew. At Harewood a frost of 11 degrees was recorded, and at the Botanic Gardens there was a 10degree frost. The maximum temperature of 45 degrees was recorded at Harewood at 3 p.m. A reading of 45 degrees was also taken at the Botanic Gardens at the same time. At Harewood at 6 a.m. the temperature was 30 degress. By 9 a.m. it had dropped to 29 degrees, but at noon it was 44 degrees. The temperature on the Government Life building gauge at 4.30 p.m. was 47 degrees. Prams On Buses The Canterbury Housewives’ Union intends to take up the matter of the carriage of prams on public transport buses, according to a statement from the secretary (Mrs M. J. Hobson). “The executive of the Canterbury Housewives’ Union would like to reassure the young mother who wrote to ‘The Press’ concerning the carriage of prams on Christchurch public transport buses,” Mrs Hobson said. “We are also concerned with the suggestion that the Canterbury Workers’ Union may consider opposing the continuation of this service. We are proposing to take the matter up with both the union and the Transport Board.” Bonny Banks Water A Scottish company plans to export Loch Lomond water to provide the clink in the glass for “Scotch on the rocks.” The water will be siphoned from the loch at a plant at Dumbarton, put into little sachets and can later be frozen into ice cubes. “It took us a lot of time to find a sachet which did not affect the flavour of the water,” a spokesman for the firm said. —Glasgow, July 15.