Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 199, 22 August 1929, Page 6

Town Talk

Slip at Shakespeare’s Cliff. A minor landslide resulted from Shakespeare’s (..iff yesterday following the heavy rain. The slip was not large and the portion on. the roadway was quickly removed. Pleasing School Surroundings Environment at the Greatford School figured in discussion at the monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board yesterday. Mr A. S. Coleman paying a special tribute to the manner in wine’. the grounds and surroundings were kept in order. They were a credit to the headmaster, he said. Days When Buses Pay

“This is the sort of day on which the buses pay,’> a Durie Hill resident remarked yesterday surveying the wintry conditions from a precarious foothold on a crowded vehicle homeward bound at five o’clock. “Pity it wasn’t rainy for the next three or four years. We might get the tram out of the hole they’re in.” An Empire Song.

At the conclusion of both concerts staged by Mr William Heughan at the Wanganui Opera House this week, the audience, prior to singing the National Anthem, sang “Auld Lang Syne,” which Mr Heughan referred to as an Empire song, one that let people express their feelings in proper spirit right round the world. In every country he had been in audiences had sung “Auld Lang Syne.” It was one of the links which bound the British people together.

All Quiet on the Water Front. As the result of the stormy weather experienced during thfi last two days, waterside workers have experienced a very quiet time. No boats have worked the port and the only vessel on which labour has been required, is the Wirral, which arrived at Castlecliff on Monday from Nauru Island via Auckland and New Plymouth, to discharge phosphate. A furoign-named vessel which is also expected to discharge a similar cargo within a short time is the Commanbante Destremau, from Noumea.

Daylight Saving. Scenes of activity on Wanganui tennis courts, well into the summer evenings last season, showed how much daylight saving wa s appreciated by wielders of the racquet. It is hoped that ttn Government will see its way clear to ensure a continuance of the measure during next season, according to a motion carried at a recent meeting of the committee of the St. John’s Tennis Club when the secretary was instructed to write to the member for Wanganui, Hon. W. A. Veitch, Minister for Labour, asking him to affirm the principles of daylight saving.

Pipiriki School The establishment of a European school at Pipiriki was asked for at the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board yesterday by Mr H. P. White. In a letter he stressed the need for proper educational facilities in the baekbloc.ks and said that 12 pupils were offering. The chairman (Mr W. A. Collins) said that the Department in not being prepared to erect a European school took a very wrong view in his opinion. The 12 pupils should be considered. The matter was referred to the Department with the Board’s approval. Accidents at School

“What is the position when a child meets with an accident at school?'’ Mr R. D’ukeson asked the Wanganui Education Board yesterday. In his district «. boy had broken a collar bone and he had asked the head teacher about notifying the Board but he (the teacher) did not know that he was under any obligation to do so. The secretary (Mr W. H. Swanger): The teacher has to report to the Board and we report to the insurance company, but there is no claim unless there is any negligence on the Board’s part. Mr Dukeson: This happened at football. The secretary: There would be no claim. The Timber Trade

That the Board should wait until an improvement manifested itself in the timber trade was the basis of a pica made to the Wanganui Education Board yesterday for the retention of a school building on its present site. The school was Te Maire, which, owing to a dearth of pupils, had been closed and a suggestion faced the Board that the building should be removed to Kirikau. Close at hand, however, there was a block of several hundred acres of milling timber and i the event ol an improvement in the timber market owners would undoubtedly cut it up. The result wooild be increased population in the area, a school becoming essential. These views impressed themselves on the Board and the Te Maire School is to stay where it is.

Destruction of Babbits. It was reported to a meeting of the Patea-Waitotara Rabbit Board yesterday that 178 rabbits had been destroyed in the Board’s area, 46 in the Brunswick district, 76 in Maxwell and 56 in Nukumaru. Details of the work done in the Waverley district were not to hand There were present at the meeting ’ Messrs C. Smith (chairman), H. Cleland (Government Inspector), D. Strachan, E. Parsons, and Gregor McGregor. A rate of three-eighths of a penny in the pound on sheep and one penny and seven eighths on cattle in the inner area was struck and in the outer area three sixteenths of a penny in the pound on sheep and fifteen sixteenths of a penny in the pound on cattle. A minimum payment of ten shillings was also decided on. Accounts totalling to £B6 6s 8d were passed for payment.

Board’s Minutes. With the cumbersome minute book arranged on a stand before him the assistant secretary of the Wanganui Education Board (Mr J. Bree) at yesterday’s meeting of that body, with great delivery, read the minutes of the previous meeting. 'That was the first occasion on which such a proceed’.np was adopted and was the outcome of agitation by Mr J. Aitken. It was noticeable that as the reader’s voice rose and fell members were paying little attenion. There were conversations going on all round the table. When the task, which lasted fifteen minutes, was at an end Mr Aitken expressed his approval. u l’m very pleased indeed,’’ he said, 11 that rhe minutes have been read and we have come to a satisfactory conclusion about it.” The chairman (Mr W Collins): There was no way out of it. We zigzagged about all over the place so I thought it. best to take the bull by the horns. You’ll all be happy now.