Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 6

Town Talk

‘Went Fishing” “Your husband went to Taupo to fish?” counsel asked a petitioner in a divorce case at Wanganui yesterday. Sir Michael Myers. That he wont to fish is not the charge, you know. Estimates Approved. It was stated by the chairman of the Wanganui Hospital Board, Mr. W. Broderick, yesterday, that the board’s estimated expenditure for the following year had been approved by the Direc-tor-General of Health. Witness Faints. During the hearing of a case in the Supreme Court at Wanganui last evening a witness fainted when giving evidence. He had found difficulty in answering questions put to him both by His Honour and by counsel, and appeared not to understand what it was they required. He had to bo assisted out of Court, but recovered later. Not Much to Go On “Government values are no basis to go on at all,” said Air. H. J. Duigan. giving evidence in the Supreme Court at Wanganui yesterday before His Honour, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Afyers. “There was an Assessment Court here last year and £570,000 way cut off the Government valuations. There are thousands more objection? this year, and if I know anything about values, they arc certain to be reduced again.” Police Force as Profession Recent Press cables from London stated that Lord Tronchard, head of the Alctropolitan Police, had advocated the training of youths for the police force, taking them from the schools and colleges and training them in much the same way as for professions. It is interesting to note that in the records of a commission which sat in New Zealand 28 years ago to look into police organisation, Mr. J. Riddells, now Deputy Mayor of Wanganui, recommended that the same thing be adopted in New Zealand. Koroniti Gold “Find.” “I suppose you heard about the * discovery’ of gold at Koroniti recently,” asked a Wanganui resident of a “Chronicle” reporter yesterday. ‘'Well, there wasn’t any gold there at all really. It all happened because one of the men working in the metal pit loading lorries laying metal between Koroniti and Atene considered he know all there was to know about gold panning and mining. We took up some alluvial gold from the West Coast and some quartz that cUme from Fremantle and let him go for it. Ho found it all right.” Use the Blackboard. The question was asked at the Wanganui Education Board yesterday as to how ballot papers for elections of householders to school committees could carry the names of all the candidates if nominations were received in the room after the meeting Opened. Air. J. K. Hornblow (Foxton) stressed that the blackboard should be resorted to in such cases. Every name should be written there, and when nominations closed they should bo copied on to every paper before it was issued by the chairman. The board agreed that that was the best method to follow. “Compliment” to Board. “It is a compliment to the board as a. whole to think that the city people have returned the sitting members,” said Air. W. Broderick, chairman of the Wanganui Hospital Board yesterday morning. He said it macle him feel that the people were satisfied with the board’s administration, which was most gratifying. The members returned were Dr. M. Christie, Air. W. J. Rogers, Air. C. W. Poynter, and Airs. Siddells. Air. J. A. Alorton, speaking as a country member, said he was pleased + o sec the sitting members retained. They wore doing good work for tho country as well as the town. School Lunch Hour. A by-law that would permit a shortening of tho school lunch hour in the country districts where though advisable was recommended by the Chief Inspector of Schools in the Wanganui Education District (Air. W. G. Blackie) at yesterday’s meeting of the board. There were two requests to start the school day at 9..°J a.m. and have half an hour for lunch. The chairman (Mr. E. F. Hemingway) said that the bylaws in existence insisted on one hour for lunch. Air, J. 8. Tingey gave notice of an intention to move that there be one hour except where the board authorises otherwise. That will give the board power to determine the length <sf the luncheon break according to tho merits of each case. Rugby Replacements. In view of the representative Rugby match at Wanganui on'Juno 3 (King’s Birthday), between Wanganui and Taranaki, the matter of replacing injured players has been discussed. The matter came before the Wanganui Rugby Union’s executive I&st night, and in the light of what transpired at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Union it was decided to advise Taranaki that the practice of the. past will bo carried on, and players replaced at the discretion of the respective teams captains. The tenor of the discussion at the meeting last night was that this problem was purely one of interpretation. Wanganui interpreted the rule to mean that Rugby should be played by teams of 15 a-sidc, the 15 to be on the field and not on the sideline. Discharges From Bankruptcy At the Supremo Court in Wanganui yesterday His Honour, the Chief Justice, Sir Alichael Myers, granted the following discharges from bankruptcy Henry W. Littlewood (Air. J. Hussey), Kenneth Webster (Air. G. W. Currie), Ronald John Bates (Air. 13. C. Haggitt), Stephen Cvitanoviteli (Air. E. B. Tustin). No opposition to the motions for discharge was forth coming in any of the above instances. In the case of Reginald T. Carter, Air. Currie asked that the matter be adjourned sine die. Bankrupt was in Christchurch and although he knew hi A ad to conic to Wanganui to face his creditors, he had not the money to ug so. His Honour adjourned the matter as requested, on condition tha’ seven days’ notice of any intention to bring it on again is given to the assignee and tho opposing creditor.