Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 205, 31 August 1932, Page 6

Town Talk

Wager on Butter A tramway officer in Wanganui, who is of optimistic mind, has made a little wager with a City Councillor to the effect that butter-fat will reach Is 3d a lb before a month is out. “I am getting a little nearer to a win every day,’’ ho said yesterday. Wanganui County Revalued. A reduction of £843,514’ has been made in the valuation of the Wanganui County. The valuation now stands at:—European £2,145,089; Maori £153,070, making a total of £2,298,159. Previously the valuation was £3,141,673. P. and T. at Play Efforts are being made to promote a match at Palmerston North between a Rugby team of Wanganui Telegraph messengers and one from the Mana watu centre. The Wanganui boys had a practice match yesterday. A senior team from the Wanganui Post Office hopes to play one from the Palmerston North on a ground to bo arranged. Unemployed v. Police-Press. Last night’s meeting of those organising the Unemployed and PolicePress Rugby match to be held on Spriggens Park on Wednesday, September 14, at 2.30 p.m., advanced matters considerably. The proceeds of the sale of tickets, which have now been issued, are to go towards the sick relief workers’ fund. The indications arc that the relief workers will be fielding a strong team. So far they have played two matches, one of which they have won. Listening In A keen supporter of Wanganui Rugby, now residing at Kakatahi, listens in every Saturday night to the results of matches. When Wanganui defeated Taranaki he and those baching with him thought that the occasion should not be allowed to pass without “cracking” a bottle they had been “sitting on” for seven days. When Wanganui followed that win up with another against Wairarapa the bottle was finished and a special trip to town has had to be made to replenish the supply in readiness for the result of the match between Wanganui and Manawhenua next Saturday. Police and Press Art Union * The Police and Press Art Union is to be drawn at the Majestic Theatre next Wednesday night, when the occasion will be marked by a special concert programme, which will include numbers from the Wanganui Male Choir and the Orchestral Society. The committee have gone to some trouble to arrange an entertainment of merit and a special feature of the programme wil| be announced to-morrow. There are some ten prizes to be drawn in Ihe art union and as tickets have been sold over a wide area there will bo a great deal of interest taken in the drawing itself. Master and Servant. “There is, I conceive, a duty cast upon a servant to take care of his own body in the interests of his master, corresponding to some extent to the duty of a master towards his servant,” said Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., delivering a reserved judgment in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The ’case was one in which a collision between a motor-cycle and a car was involved. The rider of the motor-cycle had been injured and had been paid for sick leave for a period of some weeks. Because of the contributory negligence of the servant, said Mr Salmon, the master might not only have sued the servant himself, but was certainly entitled to refuse to pay him sick leave. Waitotara Hill Slip Heavy rain during the week-end caused a large slip to come down or the main road over the Waitotara Hill. When the workmen left at 5 o ’clock on Monday evening the road was clear, but before -9 o ’clock no fewer than 36 cars had been held up, the slip having blocked the road for a good half chain. Eight men were put. to work and by 12.30 a.m. on Tuesday a track had been cleared sufficient to allow the cars to get through. The work was continued yesterday, but it is expected that it will require another three days before the road is clear again. With the exception that a previous slip has slid further down a hill at Parihauhau no others have been reported. At Parihauhau the road was blocked by a large landslide, which was undermined in such a manner as to cause a further slip to clear it away.

Generous Co-operation. Ten acres of land have been leased by the Maxwell farmers to be prepared free of cost for the planting of potatoes under the scheme being organised by the unemployed of Wanganui. The farmers decided on Monday night that instead of making individual grants of the use of land, the district should pool resources and thus work a largor block. The pasture is to bo renewed by the farmers when the crop is harvested. “Such an offer shows how the farmers are willing to work for the unemployed, and it is now up to the unemployed themselves to get behind the scheme and push it all they can,” said an official of the organisation to a reporter last night. “Funds are now needed and the suggestion has been made that although the amounts might be small, through force of circumstances, those who will be expecting to benefit from the crop might well give now what they can afford toward the cost of getting the scheme under way.” The relief workers of the city, he said, were most appreciative of the generous aid from the Maxwell district. New Unemployment Scheme A now scheme to increase the weekly earnings of the unemployed workers by providing them with extra work and. nt the same time increasing the amount of money available for relief work in general, is being arranged by the Unemployment Board. The main feature is for the unemployed workers to bo employed by private individuals in urban areas at gardening, wood ehopping, section clearing, subsoil draining and trenching at, rates exist ing for the No. 5 scheme. The private individual will be called upon to pay half the amount of the wages, which sum will bo used to augment the city’s allocation for unemployed relief, there by providing for more relief. The work is to be. carried out in addition to the usual work under the No. 5 -•home, and must not ba gran’ any eligible worker until the whole o r Iho eligible unemployed have received their ordinary ration of work. All labour is to be engaged through a local body from among the eligible No. 5 scheme workers employed by that body.