General News

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31121, 26 July 1966, Page 16

General News

Cold Place Ophir, Central Otago, with : its 31 degrees of frost yesterday morning, may have been the coldest place in New Zealand. but at Molesworth, the Lands Department’s half-mil-lion acre cattle station in Marlborough's hinterland, Sunday’s frost was three degrees below zero, for a nearrecord 35 degrees. Frosts are not uncommon at Molesworth, 2930 ft above sea level. More than 230 are recorded each year. Friday’s frost was 31 deg, Saturday's 29.5 deg, Sunday’s 35deg, and this morning, it was 29deg.—(N.Z.P.A.) More Ploughs An appeal for more obsolete single-furrow ploughs, to be : sent to under-developed Asian countries, was made by Mr R. E. Dugdale at a meeting of the Canterbury council of the New Zealand Federation of j Young Farmers’ Clubs in Christchurch yesterday. Mr' Dugdale said that although' many ploughs had been offered, more could still be had. •Their value to primitive farmers will be immense,” he said. Mr Dugdale said that the ploughs would be collected free of cost They would be shipped overseas and distributed through C.0.R.5.0. “Escalation” In the grant of £210,920 from Colombo Plan funds for an overseas students’ hall at Ham, the Department of External Affairs had made pro- j vision for what it called the; “escalation” of costs of labour and materials, the ViceChancellor (Professor N. C. Phillips) told the Canterbury University Council yesterday. He said the grant already welcomed, would enable the university to plan this unit in a complex of halls of resi- ; dence. Fine Day ' After a frost of 12 degrees at Harewood yesterday, the weather in Christchurch was fine. At the Botanic Gardens a frost of nine degrees was recorded. A light north-east wind helped to keep temperatures cool. A maximum temperature of 50 degrees was recorded at Harewood at 3 p.m. At the Botanic Gardens at the same time the temperature was 48 degrees. A temperature of 30 degrees was rcorded at Harewood at 6 a.m. By 9 a.m. it had risen to 36 degrees and by noon to 46 I degrees. Prague Quartet The Prague Quartet will ' leave the University of Canterbury on October 5 instead of October 15 because it has been unable to defer an en- : gagement in Germany, but it will honour all its concert and teaching commitments here. The university’s Vice-Chancel-lor (Professor N. C. Phillips) said the quartet had given great joy in Christchurch and increased the university’s public esteem. Famine Appeal In the Christchurch area of the Canterbury council of the New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs, about £l5O has been raised for the Indian famine appeal. The Dominion executive had pledged £5OO, and the chairman of the council (Mr R. D. Dodson) said yesterday that this amount had almost been realised. 552 Work At Wharf

When work began on the Lyttelton waterfront at 7 a.m. yesterday 552 men were engaged to man the vessels in port. Vessels due today are the Hinemoa, the Shaw Savill cargo liner Icenic, which will discharge 2400 tons of continental cargo at Cashin Quay, and the Tarawera, with more than 13,000 cases of Victorian oranges for discharge.

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