WANGANUI ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 6

WANGANUI ITEMS

Wanganui, March 26.

The Seafield Golf Club will officially open the season to-morrow afternoon at the Seafigld links. Mixed foursomes will be the order of play. To-morrow night Wanganui residents will have an opportunity of contributing towards the R. A. Rose fund and also of seeing the champion in action at an electric light carnival, to be held on Cook Gardens. Rose will run the halfmile and mile events. In the afternoon Rose will run in the mile race at the Waitotara sports to be held on the Waitotara sports to be held on the Waitotara Domain.

A case will come before the Supreme Court at Wanganui in about two months’ time to determine whether the Wanganui Collegiate School has complied with the conditions on which its endowment lands were set aside, the parties being the Attorney-General and the school trustees. The Education Department considers that the trust has not been carried out in accordance with, the terms of the grant, and has intimated its intention of seeking a transfer of 20 acres of tl.c endowment to the Wanganui Techical College. The Department contends that the Collegiate School has not complied with the trust in that it does not give industrial training. The case is being brought on by the school trustees in answer to the Department’s challenge. . The closing of the rowing season will take place to-morrow, when several interesting races will be contested. Record entries have been received for the mixed eight-oar contests, and a four-oar race will be held between the Old Boys of tht Wanganui Collegiate School and the Old Boys of Wellington College, resident in Wanganui.