In Town and Out

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19994, 10 November 1927, Page 6

In Town and Out

To-morrow is the ninth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice, and will be marked as usual by the two minutes’ silence at 11 o’clock in the morning.

All children selected for the Turakina health camp arc now under canvas at that township. The first visiting days at the camp will be on Saturday November 19, and the following day.

One of the chief features yesterday at the Wanganui show was the lively interest taken by stock-breeders and the general public in the sheep classes. These were well filled and the quality of fleece and the build of the animals were well up to standard.

Fine rain fell yesterday morning and prospects for an enjoyable day at the Wanganui Show were moderated to an extent. Bright sunshine replaced the dull conditions latex in the day, however, and contributed largely toward the success of the opening day.

Owing to to-day being ‘‘People’s Day” at the Wanganui Show, numerous shopkeepers will observe a halfholiday in the city, and, among others, butchers’ premises will be closed. As has been previously stated, there will be one mai delivery only in the city today.

To-morrow will be a true children’s day on Cook’s Gardens, when the armistice commemoration sports meeting of the Wanganui Primary Schools Athletic Association will take place. Approximately 2000 children, from city and district, will be in attendance at the* reserve, and extensive catering arrangements have been made for them.

Children to under-go open-air treatment at the Turakina health camp arrived at their destination on Tuesday. The weather has continued fine since the erection of the tents, and marquees last week by the Defence Department, and the Education Board and Mr B. P. Lethbridge have engaged workers to make full preparations for the camp.

District farmers are now keenly interested in the forthcoming Wanganui wool sale and prospects are for a successful season from the viewpoints of producers and salesmen. The first of the seasonal wool auctions in this centre will take place on November 22, the next of the scries being scheduled for January 20, 1928.

Training operations have kept city athletes busy during the week, and most club members in this centre are approaching best form in view of future important sports engagements. This evening, the Wanganui Club will decide a series of events on Cook’s Gardens, and. club races will also be featured at the reserve on Saturday evening.

It was pointed out at last evening’s meeting of the Wanganui Automobile Association by the secretary (Mr F. J. Hill) that, although the gas-cooking appliances provided by the City Council at the Aramoho camping site were adequate for the general public visiting the area, they were at the opposite end of the reserve from that used by camping motorists.

Members of the Wanganui Automobile Association are of the opinion that the erection of a cook-house at the Aramoho camping site would bo generally beneficial. “I think the concession would be good for motorists and the city,” remarked the chairman (Dr. E. Porritt) at last night’s meeting. “It would be a good advertisement for Wanganui,’’ declared another member, ‘ ‘ if improvements were made. ’ ’

Situated prominently in the Show area of the Wanganui racecourse is a water trough, and this, with an overplayful gust of wind served to annoy an. immaculate young man yesterday. He was standing near the trough when his hat was borne suddenly from his head by a gust and eventually was deposited in the water. A hurried exit before the eyes of the amused spectators included both the hat and the young man.