Wanganui in Wisps.

Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 891, 3 August 1917, Page 9

Wanganui in Wisps.

Dear Chhistabel, — was received on Monday last ' * . of the death at Dunedin of Mr. J. Smith; well known here. Mr. Smith, who was associated with the firm of Messrs. Ellery,''- Gilbert, and Co., went into/ camp with the 20th Reinforcements; but, unfortunately, he was more willing than fit, and he contracted pneumonia to which he succumbed after many months of suffering, j. Mr. Smith was not in Wanganui a very long time, but he made many friends, to whom his death was a.great shock. * * * * Mr. P. C. Cameron, who has been on the staff -of Messrs. A. Hatrick and ■Co.'s Waitara and Wanganui branches, has been promoted by his firm to their Wellington office. " Mr. and Mrs. Cameron left for Wellington early in the week. * • • * - *.' ■ * Not a hundred miles from Wanganui -there is a bowling club which has decided, by a bare majority,, not to dispense, but to dispense with, alcoholic refreshment on visitors' days. Some of the -members even suggested doing without , afternoon teas during the season, but this proposal was not at all popular, so probably tea will be served to the visiters on their days, while on other days — — but there, the rest is'only suppc ■sitioh. * * .# * Friday was a day of great importance ■to the children of the Victoria Avenue ; School, for word has lately been received that three of the old' boys of that school.' Major Harvey P. Bell, Major J. E. Duigan, and Sergeant Douglas Bell, have been mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatches. Mr. . Aitken, the headmaster, in the course of his remarks, said that each of these men had been members of the School Cadet ■Corps,f6rmed' in 1894, and the school's* flag was hoisted in their honour. « 9 jg. & - The Technical College team, which went to Palmerston North to be badly beaten in the football match ■ with High School boys of that town, had a most enjoyable outing. They are loud in "their praise of the Pa'lmerston folks' hospitality, but they are much struck by the peculiar. slippery quality of Palmerston mud. It appears the Palmerston boys seemed quite at home in it, but our poor sports spent a lot of their time slipping down and struggling aip, and the match ended with the score of High School 14, Technical College nil. They still hope, to beat Pal--merston some day. \Yours sincerely, Whirlwind.