Driving Restrictions.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 110, 12 May 1931, Page 6

Driving Restrictions.

“One good thing is that you can call a license in at any time,” said the chairman of the Waitotara County Council (Mr W. Morrison) at the meeting yesterday when the new motor licenses were being discussed. If it were thought necessary at any time during the year a license could be called in and the holder put through tests, he said. Anything might happen after a license was issued,, he said, and the old licenses were held fop the full year. Now, if a man’s eyesight, for instance, gave way during the year, his license could be stopped. “Lucky Dog” Winners The two Hamner residents who won the first prize in the Lucky Dog Art Union, journeyed to Christchurch last week to collect the proceeds. Air H. Woods left £BOO of his winnings on fixed deposit, with the bank of New Zealand, the balance, £2OO, to be paid into his Post Office {Savings Bank account. Master H. Paterson, the other winner, made a gift of half his win nings to his mother, and deposited the other half on fixed deposit. Mrs AL A. Paterson has also received from the management of the art union the sum of £25 for selling the winning ticket. Scots Welcome Hislop. A very pleasing function took place yesterday afternoon at Foster’s Hotel when the Wanganui Caledonian Society tendered a welcome to Mr Joseph Hislop, the celebrated Scottish tenor. Mr C. G. Russell, president of the So ciety. briefly welcomed Mr Hislop to Wanganui. Mr Louis Cohen, in a short speech, endorsed Mr Russell’s remarks, paying tribute to the Scottish race in the realms of art, song and story. The toast, of the visitor was then honoured, after which Air Hislop made a pleasing reply and expressed his thanks for the honour paid him. A typical Harry Lauder story in referen *e to the present economic, stress was thoroughly appreciated by the gathering. Enemy of t. e Trout. •Speaking at the weekly meeting of the Wanganui Rotary Club yesterday on the subject of “Leis,” Air T. W. Downes said that he did not know whether the. cel was detrimental to the trout or nor. He did know, how ever, that the shag was the biggest enemy the trout had, and he had on one occasion had ample proof of this when he and a friend were on the river. They saw a shag lying on the water which could neither sink, swim, nor fly. Upon investigation they discovered that the shag had a trout wedged in its throat and that it could neither swallow or ejt'ct it. Mr Downes released the fish and on measuring it found that it was 171 inches long and 11:} inches in girth, and. he concluded. “My companion and I made two meals of it.’’ A voice; “Another fishy story.' ’)