LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19765, 12 February 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

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A remand till to-day was granted Detective Walsh yesterday at the Magistrate’s Court, when William Hodison appeared on a charge of theft.

To have been 81 years a surf-bathing enthusiast is the proud claim of a Wanganui lady. Though now 85 years of age, she still enjoys a dip at Castlecliff. She took her first dip in the sea when she was four years old.

Ajn epidemic of whooping cough is at present raging in Baetihi. The main school opened only for a day or two after the summer holidays, and then closed again on account of the prevalence of the malady.

A contrapt is to bo let shortly for metalling the bad portions of tho Kauarapao road from the junction down to the Kauarapao bridge. The work will probably not be completed until next year. The Kauarapao road suffered badly from flood damage last year.

Boys playing with matches started a grtiss fire, which assumed serious proportions, at the corner of Guyton Street and Hatriek Street yesterday afternoon. The flames spread to rubbish and a hedge, and were threatening property when the brigade w&s called out. No damage was done.

The intersection of Dublin and Campbell Streets was the scene of an accident yesterday afternoon. Two boys on bicycles collided hdad on, and were thrown heavily to the ground, with the •result that the one boy sustained leg injuries, and one bicycle la badly buckled wheel.

On a charge of theft, for which he was tried on Monday, John Edward During was yesterday admitted to probation for two years by Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court. Accused was also ordered to take a prohibition order out against himeelf.

It is the intention of the Waitotara County Council to continue metalling the right bank river road from a point about nine miles from Wanganui to the saddle above Raorikia, a distance of two and a-half miias. The road its already metalled _f or most of tho distance from the city boundary.

A Maxwell youngster recently underwent a painful experience. While cycling t© school he fell and broke a finger, but did not complain of the injury, which accordingly set naturally but badly. Ultimately use of the finger was lost, and a piece of the bone had to be sawn out, in order that movement could be restored.

One of the most interesting places on the road between Kauarapao Junciton and Raorikia is the Paparaugi estate, first settled by the late Mr James Jardine over 30 years ago. The estate is now farmed by tho Farley brothers and some fine hardy sheep wore seen in tho paddo-cks by a party which passed through tho district a few days ago.

The adventures of the tug Kahanni in the curly stages of her voyage from England to New Zealand were related at the Harbour Board’s meeting last night. A letter from England stated th'at the ship had experienced trouble with her water-pumps, and had several times to seek shelter. The trouble, such as it w<as, had now apparently been corrected, as the ship hud since been reported at Port Said.

A car participating in a funeral procession yesterday afternoon was turning into the Avenue, opposite the Y.M.C.A., when a motor truck carrying paint Und other commodities for a local decorating firm crashed squarely into it. No one was injured, but both vehicles were damaged, and blotches of paint were spilt on the road. Some of this bore a gory hue, and led Inter passers-by to assume that a serious accident had occurred.

Failure to apply the brakes of her car before she stepped out of it caused a perplexing situation for a lady motorist in Guyton Street yesterday. Pulling up below the intersection of Wicksteed Street, she left the car, which immediately began to travel on its own account. Its motion was brought to an abrupt ending when it crashed into a verandah post in front of the Diggers’ dye-works. The post collapsed but no other damage was done.

A team of cricketers from the Taifoape district will to-day journey to Napier, across the Napier-Taihape road, for the purpose of playing a match against an eleven from Okawa, Mr T. H. Lowry’s station. The latter team will probably include T. C. Lowry, tho New Zealand and Cambridge cricketer, and Warwick Armstrong, the Australian. Among the Taihape cricketers will be R. H. Lowry, u Cambridge Rugby Blue, and J. H. Rotherham, a Cambridge and Warwickshire cricketer.

Stone from the Kaiwhaike quarry will be supplied to the City Council at for the purpose of carrying out repairs to the Taylorville bank. A decision that the City Council’s requirements be met was reached by the Harbour Board, after some discussion, last night. Having inspected the quUrry recently, the members of the Board arc in a position to know how stone .stocks stand at Kaiwhaike. In the course of last night’s discussion it wUs stated that the quarrying of 17,000 tons of rock for the city would keep the quarry staff engaged during an otherwise quiet period.

“I would like my friend to work all day in either sulphur or Nauru Island phosphate. He would want a quid an hour,” said Mr W. J. Rogers, at the Harbour Board’s meeting last night, when a member referred to the rates to watersiders working phosphate t,. ips. Mr Rogers stated that the Wanganui watersiders had a reputation for doing their work woll, and added that danger, as well as discomfort, was a concomitant of work on phosphate. Many watersiders had had their health impared through work on such cargoes.