In Town and Out

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19989, 4 November 1927, Page 6

In Town and Out

The number of bankruptcies in Wanganui during October last was reduced to one, compared with four during the same month last vear.

Many sales of iambs for forward delivery have been reported from the Kangitikci district and good; business appears to have been done in stock In the vicinity of Wanganui during the past week or so.

Last year at the first Wanganui wool sale the total offering was 8,640 bales. If the weather holds out it is anticipated that the offering at the first sale of this season on November 22 next will be about 10,000 bales.

During the operation of the Summer Time Act, the managements of the Wanganui picture theatres have decided to commence their programmes at 8 o’clock, so that the last trams may be boarded, l by home-going audiences.

Yesterday’s weather again proved dull and was unsuitable for satisfactory sight-seeing in the city. Owing perhaps to this, the comparatively small number of shoppers in the business area contrasted strongly with. Welnesday’s large crowds.

After a lengfchly stay in port the freighter Antonio completed' discharge of her Nauru Island phosphates this week, leaving Wanganui yesterday morning for Westport. The vessel will later load phosphate at Nauru Island for Australian ports.

An enterprising person with an eye to business proposes to establish a team of donkeys to be used as children’s mounts on the sands of Castlecliff. As the “ running cost” of the animals is not a large item, a nominal fee should represent a goad profit when business is brisk.

If promises count for anything, the Railway Department is in for a good season as far as wool traffic is concerned. The Department’s business agent has been busy interviewing sheep farmers in this district anid; as a result over half the wool should be carried to port this season by rail.

Sounds from exploding fireworks have become familiar to Wanganui citizens during the past week or so and point to the fact that enthusiasm has not abated in the Guy Fawkes celebrations. To-morrow evening on Cook’s Gardens, a fireworks and band music carnival has been arranged for the public commemoration of the event.

Speaking at the opening of the new Plunket Society Mothercraft Home in Campbell Street yesterday Sir Truby King referred To the pleasant rooms occupied by the Wanganui Branch of the Society. They were among the best rooms he had seen in the Society’s work, and they believed in comfortable chairs for the mothers to sit in. Asking them to sit on hand benches was not glorifying motherhood.

It is anticipated that 350 people wrfl visit Wanganui on the excursion from Wellington this week-end. The Serjeant Gallery will be opened on Saturday evening and the honorary director (Mr Louis Cohen) will conduct the visitors through the gallery and briefly refer to the artistic merits of the work of art in the collection. This will afford an opportunity to Wanganui residents also to learn something about one of the city’s finest possessions. Blooms to be exhibited to-day at the summer show of the Wanganui Horticultural Society will comprise displays or roses, chiefly. The show is being held in the Drill Hall and there have been extremely satisfactory entries from local growers, as well as several from outside centres. A feature in connection with the exhibition is that, despite the recent adverse weather, there has been a marked increase in tlfD entries to ‘hand, while the quality of the blooms has not been impaired to any great extent.