In Town and Out

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20109, 30 March 1928, Page 6

In Town and Out

On Tuesday a cycle collided with a motor car near liie Public Hospital. The cyclist, whose name is AlcDOitigall, is stated to be very comfortable, and progressing favourably.

A novel suggestion was j ide by a local business man yesterday, lie said that in view of the const utly recurring accidents at different danger points in the district a, committee lor Public Safety should be set up to judge which corners and railway crossings arc dangerous. Ju his opinion many lives would be saved every year if such committees were set up all over the country.

Several bicycles have been stolen from outside tlu telegraph office during the last fortnight. Telegraph boys lease their cycles outside the office when going messages, and all the cycles have been stolen .during this brief interval. It is hard on some of the lads who live at Custlecliff am;?, who will .have to walk home in tirt> early hours of the morning until the niachines arc replaced.

The Wangauui-Rangitikei Power Board officials report that the steam plant is now back to normal working order. At.the time of the drought the Board had difficulty in obtaining

enough suitable coal to keep the plant working at maximum output. During the dry spell the plant was able to supply back to the Public Works Department about 2,000,000 electric units, considerably relieving the pressure at Man-

There is at least one farmer in the district who made the most of daylight

saving. On the day that the Act came into force he engaged a labourer on his farm. The neighbours sat up and wondereidj. for such extravagance had -not been seen before from the canny Scottish landholder. From daylight till dark the unfortunate hand was made to toil. On the first Sunday in March he was dismissed. The neighbours after all did not have to forfeit their respect for the Scot’s hard head.

If the average man were asked which he would back in a race between two men, one walking 5U yards and the other running 100 yards he might find it very difficult to decide, that is providing the contestants in the race were both men in their respective departments. Last evening a pracf .al demonstration of this puzzle was given at Cook’s Gardens, when the walker won. The two contestants were Bradley and Gudscll, the latter reaching the tape a fraction of a second before the former, covering- the distance in the remarkably good time of 10 l-sscc.

A New Zealand lady who has lived in Hong Kong lor five years recounted recently in a letter to a Wanganui I friend, some interesting stories of Chinese dinners. She has eaten one of the greatest delicacies of the East, the 100-ycar-olid; eggs, which are quite black in appearance and are eaten as savouries. There are usually about 20 d-ishes at a dinner of this kind Each is placed in the centre of the tabic, and guests may help themselves. Nuts arc used freely in the preparation of most of the delicacies and the food is eaten with chopsticks. Birds’ nest and sharks’ fin soups were pronounced delicious.

Bome time ago a 'Wanganui man bethought himself to buy some roosters and fatten them up for a big dinner. Accordingly he hied himself to the auction mart and purchased half a dozen cockerels. When three of them seemed suitable he turned them into roast chicken and the other three were left to grow. But after a week or two their fighting became so annoying that the most quarrelsome of the party was executed, and the remaining two given suitable names. Lately the name of one of them had to be changed at a moment’s notice'. The presence of an egg in the pen led th; owner to suspect strongly that one of the “roosters” was not all it was claimed to be.

‘‘Your Executive considers it a matter for regret that Professor Tocker should have expressed the views that he did concerning the industrial system of the Dominion at a recent Austrian conference, stated the annual report of the Wanganui Employers’ Association presented to members last evening. “Those views were not based on experience of our industrial system, but rather represented the ideas of a theorist. To suggest that all disputes can be settled around the table savours of idealism. Whenever a dispute occurs which admits of honest differences of opinion on both sides, arbitration will be essential, and whilst politics enter into our industrial life to the extent they do, round table conferences in many instances will continue to bo futile. It is interesting to note that Professor Belshawe has publicly disassociated himself from the views of Professor Tocker. It is patent from the remarks of Professor Tocker, that to entrust the destines of employers, as has been frequently suggested, to a Court comprised of economists, who have never been up against the real difficulties in industry, would be to jeopardise industrial interests entirely, and the welfare of the community as a whole. ”