In Town and Out

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20182, 26 June 1928, Page 6

In Town and Out

The Te Aute College football team which is to play the Collegiate School to-morrow will arrive in the city today. They will be entertained at morning tea tomorrow, by the Wanganui Rugby Council.

“You don’t know how lucky you arc in this city,” said a New Plymouth man to a “Chronicle” reporter yesterday. “You have an accident occasionally, but in New Plymouth there is a whole ward filled with motor-cycle accident cases, and every week-end preparations are madg for two extra accident patients.”

The treasurer of the Wanganui City and District Unemployment Relief Fund acknowledges the receipt of the following:—Previously acknowledged, £54 12s 6d; Girls’ College staff (nrst payment), £1; Bank of New Zealand staff (first payment), £1 Is; Bank of Australia, £1 7s 6d; “A Wanderer,” £10; total, £6B Is.

With the arrival of a further draft of 34 boys from England, the number of boys trained at Flock House, Bulls, since its inception four years ago, will be nearly 400. The draft •»hich is to arrive next month will make the 13th since June, 1924, and by the time they arrive it is expected that some of the present 42 trainees on the farm will have left for service and about the full complement of 70 will be made up.

In introducing Mr P. J. O ’Regan to the audience at the Opera House last evening the Mayor, Mr W. J. Rogers, who occupied the chair, was reminded of the story of a lady who wag giving her testimony at a revival meeting. Speaking of her husband she said that he had been a Christian on and off for ten years. Mr Ola gan, said the Mayor had been an advocate of rating on unimproved values, not on and off, but continuously for 30 years.

The law is apt to be prolix in its wording. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday a man was charged that on June 16 last he “did permit a vehicle, to wit a bicycle, to be used on a public highway, to wit Somme Parade, during a period of half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise, to wit 5.50 p.m., and did fail to provide such vehicle with a lamp in proper working order and lighted. ” The short title of the offence was, “riding without a light,”' and a fine of 7g 6d and 10s costs met the case.

When questioned at the meeting of the ladies’ Unemployment Organisation meeting yesterday afternoon, concerning the allotment of money collected by districts and clubs, Mr G» Murch, town clerk, replied that to receive the Government pound for pound subsidy the work had to be approved by the Public Works engineer and must be of some permanent nature. Mr Murch said that the ladies’ committee need not worry about unemployment money for the Gonvilde Baths and Croquet courts as the work in connection with those improvements was arranged.

The Government Tourist Department has been granted permission to book passengers for those contemplating making the Island tour on the new Government motor ship Maui Pomare. The Department until recently, has only dealt with tours within the Dominion, but now that it is enabled tv make arrangements for the popular Island tours, greater convenience is afforded to the tourist. The Maui Pomare leaves Auckland on July 19 for Norfolk Island, her accommodation space being already fully booked up. The local department has had many enquiries concerning the trip and several Wanganui people are entertaining the idea of making the trip at Christmas time.

The water tower is often the destination of energetic school children on a Sunday afternoon, but the parents of children who scale Wanganui’s wellknown landmark would, in some cases, think twice about letting their offspring saunter forth on this excursion if they knew all that went on. It is a great temptation to write one’s name on the walls of the tower on reaching thd top, but as in all things, a little moderation is a wise policy. One youth ful climber on Sunday was seen to stand on the pipe- railing near the top in order to register his name on a spot inaccessible to future climbers less daring. Standing at full stretch and leaning with hands resting on a projection of the floor of the top landing, it takes little imagination to realise the risk this youth was taking. If he had slipped or lost his balance, there would have been nothing to save him from being dashed to pieces on the floor below-