LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Notice to correspondents—A.Q. and “Voter”—lnquiries being made; will publish on Monday.

In his address to members of the Church of England Men’s Society yesterday, Mr. Walter Nash referred to Thomas Huxley as “one of the ardent opponents of much that is true in the Scriptures.”

“At the conference you will have the “ I—ainiest” and the wisest bishop in the Southern Hemisphere as chairman.” Mr. Walter Nash, addressing members of the Church of England Men’s Society, yesterday.

A Dunedin Press Association telegram reports that John Lyons, aged 25, a single man employed Power Board at Alexandra, whilb waking at the converter station, accidentally touched a live wire and was 'killed instantaneously.

“ Wanganui oppossum skins always top th? market,” said the president of the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society (Mr. H. J. Duigan) at a meeting of that body last evening. This was because the Society had given instruction in the “setting-up” of skins.

Early yestendjay morning a wood and iron building owned by the Wagon Service Car Proprietary, which contained four cars and one bus was completely destroyed by fire with all its contents at Te Kuiti. No water supply was available and the brigade was powerless.

Advertisers are please to note that the following replies to advertisements are awaiting collection at the “Chronicle’s” branch office, Victoria Avenue: K 3. K 4, K 9, J£lo, Kl2, KlB, K 34, K 124, K 127, K 137.

Charged having obtained credit by fraud for £1 from James Coxon, a taxi driver, named Arnold Sutton, was yesterday remanded to appear at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court on. Friday next.

The Mjain Highways Board proposes to construct an experiment roadway at Hornby twelve chains in length and 18 feet wide, with a view to testing the different, bitumen mixes, according to a Christchurch Press Association telegram. The whole cost of the work is to be borne by the Board.

A fire' yesterday morning destroyed a building at Henderson, owned by Ozieh, a land agent, and occupied by la branch of the Bank of New Zealand, Stott (chemist), Constable (bootmaker), Higgins (hairdresser), and a billiard room. Nothing was saved. The loss is estimated at £4500.

“The Society does not want to prosecute ‘aiyone,” said the president of the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society (Mr. H. J. Buigan) last evening, “but the Society says in no uncertain voice that it will do all in its power to protect its license-holders. We want everyone to play the game and to preserve the game laws.”

At tho annual meeting of the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society last evening, the chairman (Mr. H. J. Duigan) said that the chief difficulty in importing snipe lay with feeding the birds on the journey.. With the coming of aeroplanes, however, he was sure that it would be' possible soon to bring the birds over without their needing food on the why.