LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19847, 23 May 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to the collapse of his cycle on Saturday afternoon at Aram oho, the rider of the machine sustained painful injuries. He received the attention of passers-by anid? was later removed to a hospital.

A Wanganui man who arrived from Auckland on Saturday via To Kuiti and New Plymouth was struck by the small number of people travelling by road. The highways were in excellent order, he said, and good time was made on the journey. , ;.i idj :; I

Advertisers are asked to note that the following replies to advertisements are awaiting collection at the “Chronicle” branch office, Victoria Avenue:—K3o, K 32, K 124, K 127, K 137, Kl3B, L 5, L 6, L 25, L3O, L 33, LlO3, Lll2, Lll9, L 123, L 124, L 129, Ll3O, L 134.

A motor lorry which was proceeding down Dublin Street from St. Hill Street on Saturday caused a sensation when it crashed through a fence of a residence opposite the Avenue School in swerving to avoid a sidc-on collision with a motor-car. The lorry was not damaged.

Entries from Wanganui will be among the exhibits of butter and cheese at the London dairy show in October. Mr T. C. Brash, secretary of the Dairy Control Board states that 31 entries have been received from Auckland,, New Plymouth, Patea, Wanganui. Wellington, Canterbury, Otago and Southland.

Apparently the St. John Ambulance can provide a happy basis of united fellowship for returned soldiers as well as active service for humanity. At the parade in Wanganui the other evening there was a number of men wearing ribbons of war service. One at least had the 1914-15 star, several had meritorious service, South African War medals and ribbons of civilian orders.

Motor-cycle riding on footpaths is liable at any time to disturb the equanimity of the ordinary law-abiding citizen. No doubt because of this, numerous picture-goers were amazed on Saturday evening to see a motor-cyclist calmly swing his machine on to a footpath in the upper business portion of Victoria Avenue, thread his way through the passers-by and turn into Ingestro Street —also on the pavement.

Radio station 2LO, London, was heard in Wanganui on Saturday morning at 2.45 by several amateurs. For the first time in history the station was re-broadcast by P.C.J.J. (Eindhaven, Holland) on short waves and picked up by 2BL (Sydney), and again re-broad-cast on an ordinary broadcast band. The announcements were indistinct and the music was very clear. As soon as daylight appeared fading set in. The Government Publicity Office has made arrangements to take a film record for distribution abroad of the tour of the Dominion of the Canadian Association football team, which, will be seen in action in Wanganui this week. These.will be sent for exhibition throughout Canada and probably other parts of the Empire, also the United States. Each member of the team will be presented with an album of Dominion views.

Vandalism has made its mark thoroughly in places of interest in the city. A race-week visitor remarked on Saturday on the many names to be seen in the Durie Hill Memorial Tower. “It’s all very well,” he saiidj, to leave some sign of your visit, but in reality it is petty and careless disfigurement of public property.” The extensive damage to the seats on the riverbank also did not escape the visitor’s notice.

Residents in the Wanganui district are always keenly interested in dog trials, and at the Paparangi-Tokomaru trials last week at Brunswick, there was a large assemblage of the public each day. These events give very good indications of the standard of dogs in the district, and a well-known enthusiast in the sport told a “Chronicle” man on Saturday that, were it not for the work of good dogs in his opinion a good deal of the rough country in New Zealand would not be in occupation.

“That this committee place on record its sorrow at the recent tragedy on Mt. Egmont resulting in the loss of the lives of Messrs F. Latham and Noel Baines and expresses to the relatives of the deceased anidj to the principal, staff and students of the Wanganui Collegiate School the sincere sympathy of its members and their sense of the great loss sustained by the bereaved families and the Collegiate School.” This is a resolution passed by the South committee of the Egmont National Park Board at Eltham on Thursday.

It has been advised that, at the sitting in Wellington of the Conciliation Council in connection with tire retail shop assistants dispute, nine o’clock closing has been fixed for the late night, 12.30 closing on the weekly half-holiday, and 12 o’clock closing on the half-day in the smaller centres. Easter Satiindny is not to be included in the list of statutory holidays, but a day has still to be substituted for Easter Saturday, the employers having the right of fixing the substituted day. The half-day closing will be observed in Wanganui on Easter Saturday.

A few days ago a man picked up an electric wire that had fallen from a pole in a Dunedin suburb. Acting in the public interest, as he thought, he tied the wire round the pole, and rang up the electrical engineer’s office. A Dunedin paper says: —“Such an act was laudible in purpose, but full of danger. In such circumstances’, the picker-up was ignorantly risking his life. What, then, is a person’s duty if he sees a wire down? He should leave it alone, ring up the department, and stand by until an operator comes, taking care that nobody goes near the wire. That “there are motorists and motorists” is the opinion of several pedestrians, after an experience on Saturday. At a busy hour of the day, a steady throng of people was crossing the Maria Place-Victoria Avenue intersection, when, without warning, a heavy ear swung into the crowd. The i car, which was of the silent-running order, caused considerable confusion by reason of its sudden arrival, anid in-, jury to several people was narrowly averted. The driver, also, neglected to sound the horn, an.d was apparently a member of that unfortunately too numerous fraternity of motorists who have no consideration for the pedestrian.