Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 14 December 1949, Page 4

Local And General

Naval ExerciseSi ' Combined ma'noeuvres by. ships of the Royal New Zealand and Australian Navifes are likely early next year. The Australian aireraftcarrier Sydney and other ships are expected to meet, the. New' Zealand squadron at Wellington. Exercises similar to 'those ' held in Australian wate'rs . recently are planned. AfterwUrcts the warships will vtsit Auckland. Hospital Visiting tiotirs. A suggestion ' that hospital visiting hours shduld be iheluded in the telephone directory, was made at a mbeting of the P.N. Chamber of Comnie'rce ldst night when i't was decidedf to refer the idea to the Palmerston NOrth Hospital Board for cOnsideration. Mr. K. L, Collinson said it was remarkable the • number of ' people who requested that thfe hospital be telephoned to. ascertain the visiting hours. /g *" 4 Mr. Jordan To Stayi. "I have no thO'ught of disturbihg the position of Mr. W. J. Jordan, New Zealand High Commissioner in London," said the Frime Minister, Mr. Holland-, yvheh a statement in the Evening Standard, London, was re|erred to him. The Evening Standard had quoted Mr. Jordan as saying the change of Government would ndt mean the end of London for him. "I go back at the end nf m'y term of office and that is in 1951," Mr. Jordan had said. Mails Damaged. Seventy-four bdgs of pareels, letters, and papers, unloaded. at Wellington from the Port Dunedin on December 3, have been badly damaged by water. The addresses of numerOus papers and a few pareels have been completely obliterated. it has beeh necessary to destroy the papets, but the pareels are being: held awaiting claimants. The' . indentifiable articles are being dried out and will be delivered in due course. Schoolboys' Teievision Set. New Zealand's first telewsion set has been made by a sixth former at the Whangarei Boys' High School, Lloyd L. Dyer. Lloyd suceeeded in transmitting through wires, the image of a design scratched on a photographic negative. An earlier attempt made in August to televise the image of the sun, was also suceessful although the appara'tus was not completed. The entire equipment, costing £50, was made by Lloyd at sehool with the help of two other pupils. A fiVe iiich cathode ray tube intended for a radar set. forms the main part of the receiver. Lloyd designed his own : circuits and built his own asI sembly after studying descriptions ! in overseas magazines. 1 Film Of Aspiring. ! Five mountaineers will partici- | pate in an ambitious scheme foi » the recording \>y the National j Film Unit of an ascent of Mounl j Aspiring. The project will be the I highlight of the mountaineering ! season, nothing having been pre- ! viously attempted .on such a scale ! The party will make the climb tc [ the sumhiit accOmpanied by a [ cameraman. Other mountaineere » who will assist in packing anc » organising work will be based on > the Bonar Glacier, with extra » cameramen and technical experts ! An interesting feature will be the ! parachuting of supplies from air- [ craft. Moun't Aspifing was ehosen ; for the ascent because of ite ; beauty. Jiist under 10>b00 ft. in ! height, it is kfidwn^as the "Mat- ! terh'orn of the South." it wae ! first climbed by an Englishman I during World War I, and 'abou't [ 15 other parties have siiice reach- ; ed the suhimit. The film, whicb ; will he for overseas as well ae ' NeW Zealand. distfibution, wil] ! alSo show sc'enery on the waj ! from Lake Wanaka and in the I beautiful Matukituki Valley. . .