WANGANUI NOTES

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 12

WANGANUI NOTES

INTERRUPTIONS TO ELECTRIC

SUPPLY.

Wanganui, December 19.

Arrangements have been made to have steam on the boilers at the power house to-morrow night and on Christmas Eve. The Public Works Department considers that the interruption last Friday night was due to dirty insulators and the clean-ing-of insulators on the BunnythorpeOkoia section will be commenced immediately, being carried out between the hours of-midnight and 5 a.m., during which periods the steam plant will carry the load. . , , Wanganui shops are particularly attractive this year and the goods shown are as varied as one could desire. For the past week the city has been full of buyers and shopkeepers report steady business. The rush appears to have set in in earnest from yesterday am] indications point to a most successful'business week.

Mr. Pilkington, J.P.. Coroner, presided this afternoon at an inquest concerning the death of Mr. A. B. Sharpe, well known in commercial circles in Wanganui. The Coroner found that death was suicide by drowning during temporary insanity. Two swimming fixtures of interest to primary schools .were decided at the. city baths yesterday morning. The following are results: —Drew Cup flying squadron, for team of 10 boys: Gonville, 1; Avenue, 2; Queen’s Park, 3. Payne Memorial Belay, for team of four boys, each boy to swim 25 yards : Gonville, 1; . Avenue, 2; Queen’s Park, 3. The articles are now in Wellington, waiting for the signatures of the principals of the fight to be staged between Leckic and Grime nt Wanganui Opera House on February 13, the night of Cup day. It is understood that all that stands in the way of the completion of the contract is an agreement as to the time of Weighing. .