Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 179, 1 August 1933, Page 4

Town Talk

Shipment of Beeves. Fifty-one fine bullocks were shipped from Wanganui on Saturday by .the Gale for Lyttelton. One of the heaviest of the mob slipped during loading operations and broke a log. lie had to be destroyed. Shipment of cattle from Wanganui to the South Island is under taken fairly often, and tends to swell the volume of coastal trade. Valuations Too Low. Among a large number of objections to valuations lodged with the Wanganui Assessment Court and call. d when the Court sat yesterday, was a .solitary two which held that the Govt rum valuer had been too harsh. He shoul ; have valued the properties at a high”: figure. Both cases relieved an otherwise uninterrupted line of objccti'ms that held that the valuer was liar.’: because he valued too highly. 21st Anniversary Members of the Wanganui Y.M.C.A. and their friends will meet to-night for the purpose of making suitable arrangements for celebrating the 21s! anniversary of the opening of the Wanganui institution. It is anticipat ed tha' many of those who have received benefits from the Y.M.C.A. will do their best to reciprocate. A committee is to be formed to-night to act in conjunction with the. board of directors in arranging a programme. Motorists Fined. A fine of £1 ami costs was imposed upon a number of motorists by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., at. the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning for having driven a motor vehicle when not. being in the possession of a driver’s license. The offenders were: John Gilliatt Luty, David R. Jackson, Clarence H. Stockman, Alfred E. Thompson, and James A. Anderson. Lee Chong was also fined £l. for having ridden a motorcycle at night without a light. Visit to Napier. Fifty boys and girls of the Wanganui Intermediate School, visited Napier last week, whore they played the Napier Intermediate School at basketball and Rugby, winning all events. 'The senior basketball game went to Wanganui by 13 goals to 3, and the junior by 10 to 8. The Rugby match was won by Wanganui by 22 points to 3. The teams were entertained at the Napier Girls’ High School during Friday evening and returned to Wanganui on Saturday. Thev were accompanied by Miss Lloyd and Mr Johnston, of the Intermediate School staff. Police-Press Art Union. Numerous inquiries were received yesterday as to the takings for the Police-Press Art Union conducted in conjunction with Saturday’s very suc•cessful charity Rugby match. It is estimated that, the gross sale of tickets will prove to be close on £4OO, but until all butts and unsold tickets are returned no definite data can be provided. Those who have not yet returned butts and unsold ticket-’, with the cash for tickets , sold, would Lghten the task of the re-

sponsible numbers of tlm committee if H.cj would send them in at once to the honorary secictary or ti e honorary treasurer. The drawing of the art inion will take plafc on August 16 tit the Majestic Theatre. Those Maori Names. ‘ Pronunciation of Maori names invariably presents difficulty to the average European. Mr. IL T. Crosbie, clerk of the Assessment Court, now sitting in Wanganui, made three attempts to correctly pronounce the name of a native objector yesterday, when calling the list of cases to be dealt, with. Broad smiles greeted his efforts. Later, ho decided that it would bo bettor to call native properties by their numbers and leave the names to the tender mercies of counsel. But his difficulty was not, surmounted even then, for one counsel blandly asked: “What is the name please?” when a number was called. Smilingly, Mr. Crosbio rose to the occasion, but spelt the name out and loft the pronunciation to imagination. A Windy Night. The high wind which blew throughout Sunday night was responsible for interruptions in the supplv of electricity. About midnight the Public Works Department supply failed for a few minutes, cutting off all lights in town. Later a line broke between Okoia and Eastown and was not repaired until 8 o’clock, while from 5 a.m. until 7 a.m. yesterday morning residents of St. John’s Hill and those on tho main line to Waverley were without power as a result of a tree falling on St. John’s Hill. Several aerials were brought down in the city by tho wind. The roof of a poultry house at Miss Mitchell’s propertv at Tavforth. 18ft. by 20ft., was lifted oiT and deposited about 50yds. distant. There wore 150 pullets in tho shod. Wanganui Weather. Sunshine recorded by the Friends’ School, St. John’s Hill, during the past month was 98 hours 50 minutes, or daily average of 3 hours 10 minutes. Th? rainfall totalled 2.76 inches, rain falling on 16 days. The average, maximum temperature was 54 degrees Fahrenheit and the average minimum 41 degrees, giving a mean tonincrature of 47.5 degrees. The highest temperature was 61. degrees and the lowest 31 degrees, those figures recording shade and not ground temperature. The sunshine during July was below tho average, being 28 hours less than July 1932. Tho rainfall was also below average but mon fell than last year. Tho temperature was average, although slightly higher than last, year. Both July 1922 and July .1933 have been cold and dry. for Wanganui, below the average for -unshine, but with an average temperature. The Amusing Side “Firo insurance has its amusing side, the same as any other business," said Mr. K. Congreve, when pddrtssing the Wanganui Rotary Club yesterday. "Rather amusing descript ions of causes are frequently given by claimants when filling in claim forms, lb re are some of them: ‘I consider that neither vehicle was to blame, but if either were to blame it was the other car.’ ‘I knocked a man over; ho admitted it was his fault as he had Lee > knocked over before.’ ‘T swerv-'I to avoid a motor-cycle and hit it, and to avoid further damage ran into the lamp post and hit tho wall.’ ‘The onl\ witness was the man that hit me, and his story does not agree with min”.’ ‘The machine was too badly damaged to proceed, so I left it in the yard and spent tho night in a cell, which the police kindly placed at niv disposal. 'Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I haven’t, got.’ ‘I can only give approximate measurements, as although the P.C. loaned nie a, tape measure. he would not hold the Cud.’ ”