In Town and Out

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19988, 3 November 1927, Page 6

In Town and Out

The Serjeant Gallery continues to draw its large quota of visitors, and 550 people viewed its pictures last month.

City bowlers are at present taking a lively interest in club affairs, and contests were commenced by several organisations on Saturday. Next weekend the club competitions at the Wanganui West Club’s green are to begin.

Extremely satisfactory prices for this period of the year were secured at yesterday’s Wanganui stock sale. Fine weather drew a large attendance, and it is stated that all lines of sheep, with the exception of one pen, were cleared.’ v

Two new paintings in oils have recently been added to the collection in the Sarjeant Gallery. They are views from the third house on the Dun Track, Nelson, and are painted by John Gully. The paintings have been unpacked, but have not yet been hung.

The rumour was current in the city yesterday that a watersider had drawn the winning ticket in Tattersail’s lottery. A reporter, who hastened down to ascertain the true facts, found that the rumour had no foundation. “We’d all have been ‘tight’ if it had been true,” said one of the other workers.

Although it is some time to Christmas, minor displays of goods appropriate for the festive season have appeared in city business premises within the past day or so. Summer goods are the predominating features of local displays, and in general, are considerably more colourful than the goods of the previous summer season.

A large macrocarpa tree on the main road near Bulls, which marked the 'halfway point between Wanganui and Palmerston North has fallen a victim to the axe. No more will the traveller glimpse in the distance the lonely sentinel which has been such a notable mile-post to so many who havo passed that way.

Wanganui’s attractions have impressed the three world-walkers— Messrs Hubert J. Halliday (Vancouver), W. N. Batty (Loftdon), and N. A. Godward (Westcliff-onSea, England) —at present in this city. Last evening, the young men lectured pn their tour in the Grand Theatre, and this evening they will be competitors in the mile walk at the amateur electric light sports on Cook’s Gardens.

‘‘You wouldn’t stay out of work long in Hollywood. If you can build : set like that they chase you with contracts,” said Mr Clarke Irvine, the Californian lecturer and ex-motion picture director, to Mr Arthur Gaskin on the Opera House stage yesterday. Mr Gaskin has built very effective settings for the Wanganui Amateur Musical and Dramatic Society’s production of ‘‘The Naughty Wife.” The decoration is in the hands of Mr Bob Howell.

The winter months are the most popular among school children of Canada, says Miss Ditfort, of the Avenue School staff, who has returned after exchange duties in the Dominion, for then they can follow their favourite sports of skating and ice hockey. It was a unique sight to see many of the children coming to school on skates, she said. The schools and houses were extremely well heated, and the temperature in the height of winter registering 68 degrees.

Bound for the city’s sandy suburb, the 5.40 p.m. Castlecliff tram was turning into Guyton Street from Victoria Avenue yesterday, well packed with passengers. An obviously inebriated man, however went near to missing the moving vehicle, and made frantic efforts to board the trailer. He slipped and was almost thrown beneath the rear wheel of the trailer before he was caught ,by passengers. Eye-witnesses state that he had a miraculous escape from serious injury.