WANGANUI NEWS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 7

WANGANUI NEWS

OPENING OF NEW SCHOOL Wanganui, August 2. The longJooked-for school on St. John’s Hill, Wanganui, is at last completed. The new building was officially opened on Thursday afternoon. For many years the hill children have attended a school held in the Presbyterian Sunday School, which was not altogether suitable, and the children and teachers will welcome the change to their new and well-equipped school. Customs revenue collected at the port of Wanganui for July totalled £6386 9s. 3d., while the beer duty was £261 9s. 3d. . At the annual meeting of the Durie Hill Ratepayers’ Association the following officers were elected: —President, Mr. H. Rowell; vice-president, Mr. E. Poynter ; secretary, Mr. F. Thomas; executive, Messrs. R. Irwin, Byers, Pearce. Bourgeois, Wansborough, Freethy, Allpress, Freeman, and Rev. Tye. The Durie Hill (Wanganui) Ratepayers’ Association sent a deputation to the Wanganui Tramways Committee chairman in regard to the proposed curtailment of the bus service to that suburb. It was mentioned that next to the St. John’s Hill route, the Durie Hill buses? showed the best profit, and when the revised time-table was drawn up it was hoped that they would receive due consideration. ~ . The late Mr. W. Salt, a well-knoym bridge-builder of Wanganui, also late president of the Ruapehu Ski Club, and Master of Lodge St. Andrew Kilwinning (Wanganui), has left generous bequests to his old clubs. The Public Trustee advises that £125 has been given to the Ruapehu Ski Club, £lOO to the Tongariro National Park Board (of which he was a member). £5O to St. Andrew’s Kilwinning, and £lO each to the Wanganui Public Hospital, Orphanage, and Church of England, Wanganui East.