LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19648, 6 September 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Repairs are at present being carried out at the corner of Alma Road and Abbott Street, Gonville, and new sleepers for the tram line are being put down. At the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning, charges of theft of tyres and tubes from Paparangi and Westmere were made against a young | man. The total value of die articles involved was £6 15s. A remand until Monday next was asked for by :he police, and granted. A new record in light travelling was set by a Wanganui representative footballer during the week-end. The ; sole article of his toilet outfit was a I toothbrush. The player concerned was I compelled to put up with good-natured ■ banter from his associates, especially lat unloading time, when the team arI rived back in Wanganui from New j Plymouth yesterday afternoon. j Glorious spring weather yesterday | attracted large numbers out of doors. : The biting breeze which has conveyed j a windy touch to recent sunny days ; was absent, and the result was that a I mild atmosphere was apparent Ita ■ clearness was a remarkable feature. The i Tarania Ranges could be very plainly !seen, and (heir mantle of snow made ; them conspicuous on the southern j horizon. j The new DcuMg fire-engine had its first official outing on Saturday evenj ing, when the brigade was called to a chimney fire at Foster’s Hotel. Owing to a misdirection, the motor was stopped higher up the Avenue, but in the meantime the outbreak, had been suppressed. Both rhe Dennis and Hudson engines turned out, and a big crowd quickly gathered. Expectations of a big blazo were dissipated when the motors quickly returned to the station. The outer structure of the large addition to the pipeworks at Gonville is now practically completed, and the great size of the new building is apparent to passers by. The addition completely blocks out the view, from the Heads Road, of the older building which has been incorporated with it The manufacture of pipes by both lock-bar and spiral processes will henceforth be carried on at the works, which will employ a large number of extra men when tho wheels in the now building begin to turn. A few hardy spirits for whom the rigours of winter hold no terror find expression for their fortitude in various forms of bathing, either in the river or the sea. A good specimen came to light, for the benefit of strollers on the beach, at Castlccliff yesterday, the bather being the cynosure of all eyes when ho plunged into the surf. At the manifestation of such enthusiasm even the boldest of those enjoying the mild sunlight, fully clad, could scarcely restrain a sympathetic shudder.