Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 179, 1 August 1932, Page 6

Town Talk

Little Rainfall. Only one inch of rain fell in Wanganui during the past month. There were 127 hours 40 minutes of sunshine, an average of four hours’ sunshine a day. The maximum temperature recorded for the month was 57 degrees Fahrenheit and the minimum 26 degrees Fahrenheit.

Aeroplane’s Slight Mishap. When the Western Federated Flying Club’s aeroplane, the ACH was landing at Hunterville yesterday a minor accident occurred to the under carriage. One of the bolts broke with the result that the machine could not be used for the remainder of the day. The defect is to be remedied this morning. Quarterly Instalment Due

The quarterly five shilling instalment of the general unemployment levy is due to-day and should be paid during this month. Those persons who become liable for the first time are reminded that they may pay quarterly or the whole sum (20s) may bo paid in advance. inquest Adjourned. An inquest to enquire into the circumstances surrounding the death of Robert W. Stewart, a middle-aged man who died while working on Mr T. Duncan’s Otairi Estate, last week, was opened at the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui on Saturday morning and adjourned sine die. Unemployed Boys The latest move for the employment of boys in Wanganui is that a registration bureau has been opened in McGruer’s buildings and will be open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. from Mondays to Fridays inclusive. It is essential for the efficient working of the controlling body that all boys under 20 years of age should be registered. Those in charge intend making an appeal to parents to see that this is done. Schools’ Sports Gathering. Record entries have been received for the annual football and basketball tournaments to be held by the Patea and District Public Schools’ Athletic Association at Patea next Wednesday. Some 18 football teams and 12 basketball teams have been entered. The district covered by the association extends from the Tongahoe River to the Waitotara River. Only about four schools within the whole of that area have not entered teams, Preparations for New Season. Members of the Wanganui Rowing Club spent a busy morning yesterday when they set to work to renovate, varnish and re-paint their craft in preparation for the coming rowing season. Although the winter is by no means past yet there are several who are already looking forward to participating in their favourite summer pastime again. Similar work is also being carried out by the other two clubs. One or two crews enjoyed an outing during the morning under ideal conditions. Phosphates From Nauru Island. Of a gross tonnage of 5155 tons and a net tonnage of 3152 tons, the motor vessel Forresbank is unloading 3200 tons of rock phosphate from Nauru Island at Castlacliff wharf. The vessel is a sister ship to the Speybank, which unloaded some 3000 tons of phosphate at Wanganui during the middle of July. Both vessels are owned by the Bank Line, Ltd., Glasgow, and Messrs C. F. Millward and Co. are the local agents. The Forresbank is due to sail to-morrow for Queensland. Motor Registrations Decrease Motor licenses issued in New Zealand for the current year show a decrease of approximately 7 per cent compared with last year’s figures. Registrations of cars and trucks to tailed 136,250, a decrease of 9000, and of motor-cycles 18,000, a decrease of -809. Registrations of new machines were well below the previous year’s figures, 7913 cars and trucks and 1988 cycles being registered during the year ended June 30, 1932, compared with 13,692 cars and trucks and 2727 cycles during the previous year. Good Ploughing At the Takapau ploughing matches recently an excellent performance was put up by W. L. Setters, a former Flock House boy, when he secured first prize for double furrow ploughing in class B, first prize for ploughing under 20 years, first prize for best feering ’u class B, first prize for straightest ploughing in the same class and a gold medal. Setters, who is 18 years of age, came to New Zealand from Grimsby in 1929. His father was a petty officer who paid the supreme sacrifice as a member of the Hood Battalion at Gallipoli.

Currency Control “Just, four months ago,” states an editorial in the Public Service Journal, “over 40,000 New Zealand business people petitioned the Government against further wage reductions, while the Public Service itself placed constructive proposals before the Government in connection with control of currency and stanilisation of price levels. Our propaganda has helped considerably towards making New Zealanders currency-minded and that there is a subtle change in the trend of public thought is evident by our newspapers almost daily—there is a change both of outlook and of attitude. We can almost hope for a general realisa tion of the fact that things have been done in panicky times that were no< fully justified.”

“Small, But Stalwart Band.” Listening-in on a short wave set yesterday, a Wanganui man “picked up” an American station and heard the announcer commenting on the Los Angeles Games. Ho stated that there was a queue of 20,000 people waiting for admission and gave a description of the march past of the athletes. Unforiunately the listener did not hear the broadcast from the beginning, but ho received the most interesting news as far as this Dominion was concerned. “Here come s the Canadian team, 150 strong,” said the announcer. “Now the Italian team is passing, 128 men and one woman, followed by a Chinaman, with two trainers and two newspaper men. Then there is a small but stalwart band of 25 from New Zealand, a small country from across the other side of the world. There is one girl with them—Miss Thelma Kench.”