Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 176, 28 July 1932, Page 6

Town Talk

Bedridden Patient A small-sized air bedring is urgently required for a patient who has been bedridden for eight years. Any one who can donate a ring is asked by Mrs. Dexter to leave it at the Ladies’ Rest. Bulls- Turakina Road Reconstruction work on the Bulls Turakina Road is still proceeding i cording to highway specification, a length of the route on the Wanganui side of Bulls has been closed to traffic, necessitating a detour, which is thoroughly marked by easily-read signs Savage Club Korero. The Savage Club korero realised the net sum of £3O. This I.as been handed to the Mayor’s Relief Fund with the recommendation that a third each be handed to the Vincent d. Paul Society, the Salvation Army and the Sunshine Club. The Allocation Committee made the appropriation accordingly. Y.M.C.A. In accordance with the wishes of the headmasters of the Wanganui Collogi ute School and the Wanganui Technical College the sum of £25 was allocated to the Y.M.C.A. . Unemployed Boys’ Fund out of the total sum of £65 10b 6d resulting from the takings of the football match organised between the two schools. St. Vincent De Paul Society. “The accounts, with particulars of expenditure, will be forwarded to you during next week” wrote the St. Vincent de Paul Society to the Allocation Committee when thanking that committee for contributions totalling £ll 13s 4d. The Allocation Committee of the Mayor ’3 Fund appreciated the businesslike conduct of this society. Unemployment Tax. Unemployment taxes are being collected from employees but some employers have failed to purchase the stamps whereby the taxes are paid. The delay in the payment of these taxes is causing inconvenience to the Unemployment Board and to rectify the position the board are sending out inspectors to examine wage receipts. Those guilty of non-payment will, it is understood, be prosecuted. Last year the same procedure was adopted and it resulted in a considerable speeding up of payments of taxes. Kauri’s For Wanganui.

Mr. M. J. Kyne, mine host of Foster’s Hotel has received a number of young kauri trees which have grown to about a foot in height. He is distributing these to the City Council, the St. Joseph’s Convent on St. John’s Hill and to private friends. The natural forests did. not extend further south than Pirongia in the Te Awamutu district. It'will be interesting therefore to see what success attends the experiment which Mr. Kyne and his friends have initiated in Wanganui.

No Wanganui Delegates No Wanganui delegates will attend the Technical Education, Association’s Conference to be held in Wellington commencing on September 7. The matter was discussed at last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Technical College Board of Governors, the decision that no delegate should be sent being that of the large majority of those present. The chairman said that at the present time more than at others the value of such a conference would be seen. “We are always told why these things should be, but after it is all over we never see why they are,” remarked Mr. A. T. Carveil, amidst laughter.

College Football Ground. That a new football ground be made on the Carlton Avenue side of the Technical College hostel was a decision of last night’s meeting of the Technical College Board of Governors. The mem bets of the board agreed that the pre sent was the best time for the construction of the ground in view of the possi • bilities of cheap labour, and also tie cause the ground would take about a year to become consolidated. The sum of £l5O was set down as the limit of expenditure. The ground will run east and west, but it is expected that it will form part of an ultimate and larger level area. When the further work is carried out the new ground will be relaid to give it a north and south aspect. A Seller of Tickets

Two members of the Wanganui Rugby Union visited Sandon yesterday. They had been there five minutes when Constable Larmer accosted them with a book of Police and Press Rugby Art Union tickets. He expects to dispose of at least £3O worth and works hard in the good cause at every opportunity. He was very keen to know how sales were going in Wan ganui and expressed the opinion that the undertaking was one of the best run tlw Dominion had ever known. “I sent in ;for seven more books,” he said, Hand they sent me fifteen. I expect -to get rid of the lot.” Constable Lariner’s effort is one which is deserving of high praise.

More City Garden Area The suggestion was made at yesterday’s annual meeting of the Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association that the association’s ground at Wanganui East might be offered to the city for the purpose of growing vegetables for the unemployed. Mr. J. McL. Blair pointed out , that the ground would benefit, and the unemployed of the city would share in the result. Mr. R.. Farley, the chairman, said that the association’s executive already had the matter in hand and steps were being taken in that direction. The subject would be discussed at the next meeting of the executive, as the tenure ol the present lessee would run out in 'the near future.

Pupils Leaving School “The number of pupils who have left school this year is 48—27 boys and 21 girls,” reported the principal and secretary, Mr. I. E. Newton, to last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Technical College Board of Governors. Of those, continued the report, two were in their sixth year at school, five in their fifth year, four in their fourth year, nine in their third year, 15 in their second yeai and 14 in their first year. Eleven girls went home, ten other pupils left the district, five took up farm work, four went to other schools, three became shop assistants, three are not working, eight undertook positions of different types, and four are now employed in offices. The num her who left durinj: lh? sb me period last year was approximately 72. “I* is significant,” said the report, “that none of the boys who have, left have been absorbed into industrial occupations.’*