In Town and Out

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 6

In Town and Out

For family reasons the interment of the late Mr W. W. Bramwell will take place at Feilding to-morrow at 3 o ’clock, instead of at Aramoho to-day, as previously announced. Essay ’Winners. The first prize in the girls’ section of the Navy League Essay Competition was won by Sylvia Aves of the Victoria Avenue School. Another pupil, Stanley Slater secured a special prize in the boys’ section. New Technical College Hostel. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) who is to visit Wanganui on Wednesday next to open the Wanganui Agricultural Association’s spring show, will also lay the foundation stone of the new boys’ hostel to bo erected for the Wanganui Technical College. The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. New Show Buildings. The Wanganui Agricultural Association has not lost sight of the proposal to erect large show buildings on tho lower end of the racecourse adjoining Spriggens Park. Members of the Association recently discussed the matter ami it was decided to reconsider it after the forthcoming show. Mr Veitch at East Town. A visit to the East Town Workshops was paid by Air W. A. Veitch yesterday. A large gathering was addressed by the candidate, who was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence. An address on “Constitution,” outside the field of polities, was also delivered by Mr Veitch before tho Optimists’ Club. The Weather.

Owing to the stormy conditions prevailing very little activity is evident in shipping circles. There were no arrivals or departures at Wanganui yesterday, but the Kapiti and Inaha, which have been delayed, will sail for Wellington and Patca respectively as soon as the weather moderates. Freehold, and Leasehold.

The advantage of the freehold tenure over leasehold was urged by Mr N. J. Lewis last evening. In support of his argument ho instanced a. farm which he had been shown near Wanganui. Previously, wnen it was a leasehold property, it was very ill-kept. Now that it was held under freehold it was all that could be desired, and presented a pleasing sight. The Younger Vote.

That there was an awakening of a political sc-i.sc amongst the younger members of the community was the opinion cxi’essed by Mr N. I. Lewis, Reform candidate for Wanganui, at his meeting las’, evening. Another change in tho Dominion’s politics, he added, wa s the advent of women in the field, lie thought that it was a desirable tiling that women should take an active part in tho government of the country. To-days Conference.

Under the auspices of the North Wellington branch of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers, some 60 civil engineer? are exported to attend a conference in Wanganui to-day. A wide variety of subjects is to come up for discussion this evening, and to-mor-row morning visits of inspection will he paid to tho waterworks at Okehu, and inspection will oe made of the bitumonisad roads in the Waitotara County. The Mayor (Mr W. J. Rogers) will extend a welcome to the visitors at 4 o’clock this afternoon*

False Pretences Alleged At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr J. Driver, J.P., Leonard Fraser Farmworth was charged that on September 29 last, at Wanganui, with intent to defraud, ho obtained from a woman the sum of 25s by falsely representing that he was in receipt of an Imperial wap pension and that £lB was due to him under it. He was also charged with failing to comply with a maintenance order and with failing, at Wellington, to comply with the conditions of his release upon probation. He was remanded to appear again on Monday morning. No application for bail was made.

More Dairy Produce Dairy production in the Wanganui district is being well maintained, and all companies report substantial increases for the early part of the season up-to-date. The Okoia company has manufactured 25 tons more butter than during the same period last year, while the Westmere cheese factory, with its new additions costing £2OOO, finds that the inert*>■-<•4 supply keeps its plant fully taxed. There has been practically no forward buying up to now but offers arc again being made by agents, the price this time being Is 43d for tho butter-make from November o February inclusive. This price would return farmers about 154 d a lb. butterfat. An Economic Waste

“One of the bugbears of the dairy industry in the Wanganui and Rangi-t-ikei districts is the competition for suppliers as carried on among co-oper-ative companies,” stated a prominent farmer yesterday. “In the matter of carting, the companies are overlapping seriously, and it is estimated that the waste thus created is costing the farmers from 4d to Id on each pound of butterfat. F bur separate companies are operating in the area between Wanganui and Waverlcy, while one large dairy company with its headquarters in the Rangitikei district, runs a lorry from Wanganui to its factory 30 miles away, each morning, actuallypassing the doors of two other factories. There is a strong fooling in some quarters that some territorial agreement between the companies should be arrived at. Naturally, competition may be expected from the proprietary concerns, but among the cooperative companies one might expect a little more co-operation.”