Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 140, 16 June 1931, Page 6

Town Talk

i Lambs at Turakina. For the last week or so lambs have i been ariving on Mr A. Glasgow’s farm at Turakina. The mothers are two tooth Corriedales. The new-comers total about 20. For Homing Pigeons Homing pigeon fanciers will be in forested in the announcement that M James I’aterson, of Wanganui, has don I ated a silver sugar bowl for competi I tion. It is to be awarded for the bin getting most points in the Winter Hhov and in the interval races which wen decided last Saturday. Finishing Relief Work. With the coming end to the No. 5 Scheme, the City Council is endeavouring to finish as many works as possible on which relief workers are employed. Some of the works are of such a class that if they were left unfinished it would cost the city a large amount of money to complete them at a later date. Harbour Rate At yesterday’s meeting of the Wan ganui Harbour Board aflirmed its pre vious decision to levy a rate for the ensuing year of - in the £ in the City of Wanganui area and 3-16 d in the £ over the country area. This is the same rate as last year. The coun fry district covers portions of the Wanganui, Waitotara and Waiinarino Counties. Wharf Work Scarce. Giving evidence at the .Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui yesterday, a witness stated that work had been very scarce on the wharf during the past few weeks. The best paid man during one week had not received more than £lO for work as a wharf labourer (.luring the past month. For the past two weeks his earnings had been 9s 4d and 8s sd. Unregistered Firearms. At the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui yesterday, Raulstone Holmes was fined 10s and costs on each of two charges of having an unregistered firearm in his possession. D. P. Newsham, who lent the rifle to Holmes, for a day as ho supposed, was charged with lending an unregistered firearm. Newsham stated that he had not had the firearm ret-rned to him and had not thought that it would go out of his possession. He was convicted without a fine. Novel Competition.

One of the attractions of ••'Welcome Week,” and which is expected to create a large amount of amusement, will be the bucket carrying competition. The competitors are to race from the Post Office to Guyton Street, carrying a full bucket of water on their heads. A special prize for the winner is to be presented by one of the leading hotelkeepers of the city. On Saturday next a ‘Joy Night” is to be held which, it is expected, will be reminiscent of some of the “Joy Nights” held after the war. Jubilee of Chess Having been founded in J 881, the Wanganui Chess and Draughts Club will celebrate its jubilee this year. That a considerable amount of interest is still displayed in the game is evident from the fact that the club has as large and as enthusiastic a membership at the present as at any other time in its lengthy career. The championships arc now in progress and are arousing much interest, It is not generally known that spectators are welcomed, provided that they observe the simple rule of remaining silent. New Ambulance 'Uniforms For the first time in the history of the Wanganui Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, members of the Cadet Division will be parading in uniform next Sunday at ten o’clock at the Ambulance Hall. The uniform is similar in design to that worn by the army cadet. The tunic is black with silver buttons with the St. John cross on it. Black shorts are worn with a white piped seam. The stockings are black, set off with white. The hat is black and similar to the military hat, the pugaree being white. The annual Church parade will be held at half-past ten. Reduction in Rent An application from the Wanganui Agricultural Association for the reduction of rent charged for the associa lion’s office in Taupo Quay was favourably received by the Wanganui Harbour Board yesterday and the amount, was fixed at £1 per week. Other applications from tenants of the board were received and referred to the leases committee. It was contended by Messrs W. J. Rogers and J. Robertson that as the Agricultural Association’s case had been considered the others should be dealt with right away. Against that it was pointed out that members of the board were familiar with the position so far as the Agri cultural Association’s office was con cerned, but were not in respect to cer tain houses at Castlecliff. Wanganui and Auckland Returning to Wanganui was a plea sure, said Captain G. Buckley, for many years conductor of the Queen Alexan dra Band, when speaking at the Rotary Club yesterday. Since leaving ho had often thought of the happy times he had spent in Wanganui, and those recollections had always been of the best. Remarking on the conditions of the communities in Wanganui and Auckland, he said that he considered that the anticipation of hard i*mes was very often worse than the actual realisa tion. Once people experienced the position they found that matters were not so bad after all. When he had first arrived in Auckland ho had been amazed at the great concourse of unemployed who used to march up and down Queen Street. Those crowds were no longer to be seen. Evidently the un employed had been afraid of the bad times ahead, and, anticipating that they would be hard, had made deinonstra tions. Now they realised that the bad times had arrived and they were look ing for work. He considered that Wan ganui ami Auckland wore much alike in character.