WANGANUI NOTES

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 32, 1 November 1929, Page 6

WANGANUI NOTES

Dominion Special Service • Wanganui, October 31. Mr. D. Dwyer, president o£ the Watersiders Workers’ Union, who was a Labour candidate at the last municipal elections, has been selected as Labour candidate tot fill one of the two vacancies on the City Council caused by the resignations of Councillors Gower and Falconer. Twentv-four applications for relief were dealt with by the WanganuiWaitotara Patriotic Association at the monthly meeting yesterday. The Hon. . A. Veitch and Mr. Hope Gibbons were appointed to co-operate with the local St. John’s Ambulance Association to try to secure decentralisation of Red Cross funds. Mr. J. 'Thorpe presided over a meeting of members of the Wanganui Chess Club recently, when arrangements regarding the New Zealand championship, to be hold in Wanganui commencing on Boxing Day. were discussed. The chess tournament is expected to. last a week or 10 days. During October 54 births were notified to the registrar compared with 31 in the previous month. Deaths numbered 20 and 14 marriage notices were issued, compared with 22 in the previous month, and three marriages were performed by registrar. Returns of Customs duties collected at Hie port of Wanganui for October show a substantial increase compared with those for the same, month hist year. The figures arc as follow, with last October's figures in parentheses:—Customs duty. £B-18 7s. 4d. (£71.31 4s, 3d.); beer duty. £-85 Is. Id. (£3lO Os. Sd.l. The annual schools tennis tournament (championship doubles and singles) will be held at the Wanganui East courts on Saturday, November 10. There are 10 grass courts at Wanganui East. Thirtv-four building permits to the value of £10.647 Ils. were issued by the Wanganui City Council during October. The total was made up as follows: hevea new dwellings, £5637 10s.: seven additions to buildings, £591: 13 new motor sheds, £309 155.; two additions to motor sheds, £3l: one addition and alteration to factory. £1178; new cowshed. £10: removal of ice-cream stall, £10;' new general shed, £2O; new aervica deoot £2BOO.