LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19584, 8 June 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

1 ‘The Publicity Department is expanding very rapidly and doing excellent work,” remarked Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P., at last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce.

The adjourned meeting yesterday morning in the bankrupt estate of Albert A. Signal lapsed for want of a quorum. A further meeting of creditors is to be called to discuss bankrupt’s position.

The secretary of the Wangtanui Employers Association has been advised that the Arbitration Court which was expected to sit in Wanganui towards the end of the present month, will not do so until late in July.

Sheep in the Wanganui district are doing particularly well at the present time. The frosts that have been experienced of late have not been treating stock so harshly as the recent rains, although they have a tendency to check the growth of pastures.

A cable message from London states that a five-year-old girl named Eileen Head is travelling unaccompanied by the Tainui to New Zealand in order to join her parents. She is in charge of the ship’s matron. Her baggage includes two trunks of to vs.

A bibulous barracker for Wanganui, at the Shield match on Saturday, delighted the Hastings crowd by his ardent references to Bellis, Leahy, and “good old Taihnpe.” “After all,” he declared, “Taihape is only a suburb of Wanganui. ’ ’

The Post and Telegraph Department has (advised the Chamber of Commerce of improved telephone connections between Taumarunui and Taihape, and Taumarunui and Ohakune. The new arrangements will enable Wanganui and the stations south of Ohakune to communicate with Taumarunui and stations further north with despatch.

The reason for the difference in the price of cement in WangAnui from that in other centres is being investigated by a special committee of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce. A statement was made recently that the price of cement in the city was 25s per ton dearer than in other centres. A further report will be submitted by the committee at a later date.

Negotiations have been proceeding regarding the left bank river road, and the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce has been interesting itself in the project to push the road through. At last night’s meeting of the Chamber, however, it was decided to defer the inspection of the road until the dlays were longer and the conditions more favourable.

A local farmer who has just returned from a visit to Hamilton reports that stock in the Waikato are looking in splendid condition. The favourable autumn ha([ enabled the farmers there to draw level with last season’s production figures. Wanganui was not so fortunate in this respect, but the good autumnal season should lead local farmers to fear nothing during the present winter.

Considerable amusement was created in a local household a few’ evenings ago by the youngest daughter of the family fervently remarking, when she was informed by her mother that it would again be necessary for her this winter (in order to cope *n part with the unsolved economic problem of the cost of living) to don garments which her elders had outgrown or discarded, “I don’t think it’s fair. I always have to wear your returned empties.”

Captain D. H. Donaldson, of the local office of the Defence Department, wrote to last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce expressing the thanks of the officers and cadets of the No 10 Company for the facilities extended by local employees to trainees to enable them to prepare for the final inspection for the Campbell Statuette. The coveted trophy was won by the 1 octal company, which makes it the premier non-secondary unit in the Dominion for the present training

The subject, of the facilities at the town wharf for outwlard cargo again came up for consideration at last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce. The Railway Department advised that the question of shelter provision was being carefully considered, but it regretted that at present it could not see its way to act in the matter. One member suggested that the onus to provide additional accommodation was on the Harbour Board, which received practically all the revenue from outward cargo. It was further stated that the question developed into one of whether the Railway Department or the Harbour Board held the title to the shed. Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P., pointed out that he was satisfied that the wharf and was the legal property of the Department. At the suggestion of Mr T. H. Rice, Mr Veitch’ was deputed to go further into the question when in Wellington in the near future with a view to ascertain what the Department intends to do in regard to the matter.