WANGANUI NOTES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 7

WANGANUI NOTES

Dominion Special, Wanganui, December 3. Mrs. Mary I’rice, one of Nelson and Pictou’s oldest identities, passed away at Dannevirke this week in her U3rd year, at the home of her daughter, Nurse Price. Mrs. Price lived G 6 years in New Zealand, 50 of them in Pictou, and she had a vivid memory of the early days right up to the last. She lived in Wanganui for about ten years until about four years ago, when she went to live at Dannevirke with her daughter, Miss V. Price. She led a particularly active life until recent years. A" son, Mr. Reuben Price, ts postmaster at Hamilton, and another son, Mr. 17.I 7 . Price, is in South America. The other daughters are Miss F. Price, at present in charge of St. Helens Hospital at Christchurch, and Miss S. Price, of Wanganui. ' A prisoner, George Warren Hastings who escaped from gaol on Monday and who was sentenced this morning, explained to the Court that he suffered from water in the stomach, and this affected his head and caused him to leave the gaol grounds. As he was sentenced to ten days on bread and water, he will now have to contend with an additional supply of the latter in his stomach. He has a list of 80 convictions, and has been declared an habitual criminal. He was serving a sentence of two years. He was placed on tlie honour svstem-at the local gaol, the same as the other prisoners are treated, and has been here for 18 months. He left the grounds at 9.30 and lav in seclusion for the day. In the meantime he ' rubbed his clothes with clay so as to give them a khaki colour. At night lie ventured forth and was caught by Superintendent Ching while crossing Dublin Street bridge. It was his intention to walk to tonA record quantity' of dairy produce is pouring into the cool stores at Castlecliff. On Tuesday no fewer than 20 railway trucks and 1G motor trucks emptied produce into the stores, this representing 1300 boxes of butter and 1100 crates of cheese, the output of factories in a wide territory While the stores were handling this large quantity of inward merchandise, 1000 cases of'butter for export were being shipped aboard the Invercargill at Castlecliff wharf. In an eight-hour day 2300 boxes of butter and 1100 crates of cheese were thus handled. A vacant corner section on Somme Parade, Aramoho, is being prepared for the erection of Wanganui’s first suburban picture house. It is to be a large structure, which will do much to add to the businesslike atmosphere already acquired bv Aratnoho’s riverside frontage. A syndicate is responsible for the new venture. A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Gertrude Marshall was held at the Deputv Official Assignee’s rooms this morning. Mr. F. J Hill presided. Bankrupt’s statement showed that she commenced .business with £lBO and altogether she lost nearly £400.' She had made every effort to meet her liabilities, but owing to lack of trade she could- not pay her creditors. It was decided to recommend that bankrupt be discharged as soon as possible. Some alterations were made in the electric lines in the Fordell district last Sunday, with the resuP that . all separators and other machinery driven by electric power in the district began to run the wrong way. One farmer thought that his boys had been tampering with the plant and got hold of a belt to trv and rectify matters. Tn an instant his hand was taken round a pulley wheel and badly bruised.