Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 139, 15 June 1932, Page 6

Town Talk

Seed Fumigation. Regulations relating to the importa tion and fumigation of agricultural seed from certain parts of Australia are published in the Gazette. Technical College ant! Soccer. Subject, to certain conditions, permission has been granted to the Wanganui Technical College to use Cook’s Gardens on Wednesday afternoons for soccer. The college is to erect goal posts and mark out the ground and the City Council intends charging a rental, not exceeding £5, to cover cost of putting the grounds in order. County Rates. At yesterday’s meeting of the Patea County Council, the following rates were estimated for the current year, and estimates based on these were formed for the year’s works: Kapara lsd in the £; Moumahaki, Waverley and Otioa East and West, in the £. The estimates were further discussed and approved. County Valuations. It was suggested by the chairman (Cr. W. G. Belton) at the monthly meeting of the Patea County Council yesterday that county councils circularised regarding a proposed conference on the matter of wage reductions should also be asked to consider the matter of revaluations of counties. This suggestion is to be forwarded to the Rangitikei County Council who arc circularising councils with tho proposal to hold the conference. »

Many Applications. Nearly 50 applications have been received by the Whenuakura Dairy Company for tho position of manager. Working late over the last few days, tho committee of directors set up to deal with the matter, have reduced the 50 to five, who will be personally interviewed on Friday. Applications were received from all parts of tho North and South Islands, the Whenuakura factory being one of the most up-to-date of its kind.

Returns from Wool. An absurdly small return for the sale of three bales of wool crutchings was revealed by a Wanganui farmer recently. He stated that ho had only received id a lb. for the wool and that his net profit from the transaction had been exactly 17s 4d. “Can you beat that?” he* asked disgustedly. “Yes,” replied a second farmer, who said that he had sent six bales of the best crutchings hetme to London to be sold. His “return” had been a debit of £l7. Barest Maintenance. “Only subsidies for the barest maintenance work would be available from the Highways Board,” stated the chairman (Cr. W. G. Belton) of the Patea County Council yesterday, reporting on an interview he had had with the board’s engineer-in-chief in Wellington. This general maintenance did not include any shouldering work, taking off of corners, or new sealing work. The county engineer (Mr. L. FRow) stated that it would be better to apply for subsidies for the most urgent* work of this kind and be turned down, rather than not apply and see other counties getting something. All estimates and applications for such work had to be in on J’no 18, so that yesterday the Patea County Council considered and prepared its applications for the year.

’Plane Damaged at Manaia. Through striking a hole in landing at Manaia, on Saturday, the Western Federated Aero Club’s ’plane AAX, piloted by Mr. K. Holdaway (New Plymouth), received damage to the under-carriage and broke one of its longerons. Four federation aeroplanes were at Manaia in connection with the jubilee celebrations, and Mr. Holdaway with his wife as passenger, had lust brought his ’plane down when the mishap occurred. Flying-Officer lan Keith, Messrs S. Green, and B. Haybittle were piloting the other machines- One of the ’planes returned to New Plymouth, and the ground engineer, Mr. A. Salter, was conveyed to Manaia where be supervised the dismantling of AAX and its transport, by motor-lorry to the repair shops at Bell Block.

Co-operation for Films. “Tho film companies can got anything thev want in California, remarked Mr. Frank V. Kennebeck of Paramount Film Servue, talkmg a reporter yesterday. Tho rail yare privately owned over there, a they will co-operate with -he _ com panics for the making of a .L I JL The districts also work in with the making of a picture, for when a company goes to a town for certain scenes thev do not take their extras along with them. They engage extras there nnd dross them up in tho parts they are to plav. It is the same in the Western films. Quite n lot of those, in the town where a picture is being made are hired as extras. Naturally the expenditure benefits the town. Small ram Cottages. A plan of the cottages to be built on the small farms, which tho Government intends to establish throughout tho country for tho unemployed,, shows that these buildings will contain two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and bathroom. Every inch of spilee will bo Utilised so that there will bo no waste Steps lead up to the living room in which there is built an open fire place, tho room being 14ft >v 9ft Tn the kitchen, which is loft, by 7ft' 9inZ there is n range, n sink, tubs and a copper. The two bedrooms are. lift, bv 9ft. and there is a easement window in every ronin. It is estimated that each cottage will cost about £l6O to erhet. None have been commenced in the Wanganui neighbourhood up to the present tune but it is expected that a start will be made shortly. Praise for Wanganui P H “ rise was expressed In Uindon aviation circles at. tho magnitude ol aH pageant Held in Jangiinui, when photographs of the hxtur reached tho Empire City. I hot graphs of the pageant showingnearlv 40 ’planes and thousands of car parked on the ground were sent I bv Mr C F. Newham, Government publicity photographer in Wanganui nd the display created a very. goo impression. It was known, s atedtl letter, that aviation had made rapi • irides in Now Zealand, and that the ’ . • , i ,i... other British colon nonunion led the oinu ■ , , les ns far as the number of plan per capita was concerned, but every one was amazed that a pageant o such an ambitions scale could ™ Xd in New Zealand. The pubic it.y derived from the display °t P ' • ~ranks will be of great value to U, Dominion in general and Wanganui iparticular.