ROUND THE TOWN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19871, 20 June 1927, Page 6

ROUND THE TOWN

“A man from the north of Iceland is a Scotsman improved on,” said the Rev. Catherwood at the farewell to Mr A. J- McEldowney on Saturday evening.

A cyclist came by a mishap in Victoria Avenue on Saturday evening when the back wheel of his bicycle was struck by a car which came up the street behind him. No personal injury resulted.

A heavy touring car went into a ditch on Leithbridge’s Hill last evening while passing another car. It was in such a position that it could not get out under its own power, and help had to be obtained from Wanganui.

A large house on No. 3 Line owned by Mr P. London, was burned to the ground on Saturday afternoon. The house was outside the city boundary and as no water was available nothing could be done by the Brigade. When the fire broke out there was no one at home.

Promcnaders on Saturday in Victoria Avenue are always numerous. Strange to say, the colder the day, the more numerous this section of the community seems to be, and yesterday, Avenue doorways were well packed with the accepted types of young men who thus spend their leisure times.

“I do not see why musicans should be recalled. Speakers never are. It’s most unfair,” said Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., at the farewell gathering on Saturday evening to Mr A. J. McEldowney, General Secretary of the Y.M.C.A., who leaves to-day to take up a similar post in Christchurch.

The structural work on the Bastia Hill water-tower continues to reach a higher elevation and the framework of the dome of the tower is now taking definite position. Already a striking feature, the tower will be one of the dominating structures of the landscape for several miles around Wanganui.

When the Rugby fans were crowding through the new gates at Spriggens Park on Saturday a portion of the concrete on one of the posts became detached and fell on the head of a man who was just gaining entrance to the ground. He received a heavy knock and was considerably dazed for some time.

With the approach of the Wanganui Winter Show there is evidently a flutter among the feathered fraternity in the district. Passers-by in Jones Street, Wanganui East, a few days ago, were somewhat amused by the tactics of a bantam rooster. The baniam had selected the telegraph wires as a suitable roosting place and from its lofty perch crowed defiance to all and sundry.

“I have not seen the spirit of charity exemplified elsewhere in the world, as I have seen it here in Wanganui to-night,” said a “globe trotter” of 21 years’ standing as he came away from the concert at His Majesty's Theatre last evening. He said that the entertainment compared more than favourably with any Sunday-night coucert he had attended in Sydney.

“People pay extra for a front scat in a theatre but they would pay double for a back seat in a church,” said the Rev. W. J. Oxbrow (chairman of the Taranaki-Wanganui Methodist District) in the course of an address at the jubilee celebrations of the church at Aramoho yesterday. “A stranger comes in and is thrust into the front seat because the back scats are occupied by the saints and. the result is he never comes near the church again. ’ ’

One of the County senior football players who received a kick on the head, during a match on Saturday was discovered walking round Spriggens Park in another player ’s clothes. Although he could talk rationally he was the victim of a temporary lapse of memory and could not remember whether he had changed into his football “togs” at home or ou the grounds. It was some time before the knot could be untangled.

Shows possess their attractions continually lor large numbers of people, and the National Dairy Show at Palmerston North last week was the Mecca of numerous people of XX anganui aud the West Coast districts. On Saturday, many cjty residents made the journey to see the Wanganui Technical College play Palmerston North Boys’ High School in a Rugby game, but unfavourable weather did much to lesson the attraction of the