Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 183, 5 August 1933, Page 8

Town Talk

‘'This place is too near the trams, which interfere with wireless reception,” said a witness, giving evidence at the Wanganui Assessment Court. Address to Rotary Rotarian A. Douglass is to address the Wanganui Rotary Club on Monday. His subject will be *‘A Talc of Two Cities.” Main Highways Expenditure. Estimates for the expenditure on main highways during the coming year l>y county councils in the No. 8 Highways Group has been approved by the Main Highways Board with slight alteration. Replies to Advertisements The following replies to advertise meats await collection at the “Chronicle's” branch office in Victoria Avenue: .121, J 26, J 32, J 33, .135, J5l, .1100, J 1 IK, Jl2l, .1122, Jl4O, Jl4l/J143, .1149, KlOO, KI 04, KlO6, KlO7. For Relief of Distress A house-to-house canvass will* be made to-day in Wanganui East by the Wanganui East branch of the Mayor’s Relief of Distress Committee. Donations of clothing and food will be welcomed. They will be collected to-day week. This committee is not associated with the Sunshine Club, which is working in the district independently. Distribution of Relief. Consequent upon the decision of the Allocation Committee, which controls the Mayor’s Relief of Distress Fund, that the distribution of relief bo controlled by nine district committees, the Advisory Unemployment Committee will not sit at the Labour Bureau, Trafalgar Place, to-day. Applications in future may be made to the district committees. Police and Press. Arrangements have been made by the Police and Press committee for the Ruakawa Maori party, of nine artists, to visit Wanganui on the night of the drawing of the art union—August 16. A gala night is to be promoted in the Majestic Theatre on that occasion and a rare programme of new Maori numbers will be featured on a speciallyarranged programme. Seven Years’ Hard. The Reverend Raymond Dudley congratulated the Reverend H. G. Goring on the anniversary of his settlement in Wanganui seven years since. “The threc-year system of the Methodists/’ said Reverend Mr. Dudley, “frequently conformed t 0 three stages of treatment of a minister. First he is idolised, then he is criticised and then he is scandalised.” “Die and be canonised,” interjected the Reverend Mr. Goring So Many Blackbirds.

“I have never spoken before so many blackbirds since the terrible day when I preached a trial sermon,” declared the Revered J. Carlisle at the welcome social to hi 3 wife and himself. The reference was to the presence of so many clericals: The Venerable Archdeacon Young, Canon Williams, the Reverends John Paterson, G. L. King, A. H. Norrie, R. Dudley, Brown, Adjudant Norman and Mr. J. Hidden (representing the Church of Christ). A Different “G.”

Several people have congratulated me on my recent fishing excursion,” said the Rev. H. G. Goring at the welcome social to the Rev. Joseph Carlisle on Thursday. “They have been highly complimentary in their remarks regarding the landing of Wilfred Williams with the hook baited with prophecy. The truth is that I have not hiecn fishing at all. When I do go on any excursion it is not a s ‘H.G.,’ but as ‘H.G.G. ’ ” Canon Williams was present and enjoyed the hearty laughter as much as anyone. The Assessment Court.

The Assessment Court rose yesterday and will not be sitting in Wanganui again until Friday, August 11. That day will be devoted to “washing up” all those objections that are not within what is known as the business area. The particular objections to be dealt with will be those in respect to properties lying between the Avenue and Somme Parade. Objections to valuations in the business area will not be dealt with until August 22. The Court is to sit in Feilding on Tuesday, and Palmerston North on Wednesday. Maoris Returning Home

The various Maori tribes which travelled to Patea to attend the ceremony of the unveiling of the Turi Memorial, returned home yesterday, a last visit to the memorial being made before leaving. Several pot dances and hakas were sung. There are now ■six figures in the canoe, which are covered with garments and garlands made with karaka leaves. A bunch ol flowers has been placed in Bongorongo’s hands. The flood lighting makes the menu rial an imposing sight at night.

New Sailing Club The sport of sailing boats on the Wanganui River, popular 25 to 30 years ago, will be revived next summer. Recently a new club was formed and activities are afoot to make the coming season successful. Several boats arc being built by amateurs and it is intended to secure a site on the river bank for the purpose of erecting a shed, which will be essential if the club is to have a successful career. The fust cup to be sailed for will be that presented by the late Mr. J. F. Studholme, which was won 25 years ago by the ,18-footer Patiki class “ Dottrel!,” owned by Messrs. Silk Haworth. The cup is for perpetual challenge. It will be on view shortly in Victoria Avenue. A special general meeting is to be held next week, when all mcmIcrs and intending members are invited to attend in full force. Metalling Work Approved. Advice has been received in Wanganui that the upper five miles of the Kauarapaoa Road and the adjoining two miles of the Rangitatau EastWatershed Main Highway are to be metalled. The cost of the work on the Kauarapaoa Road will be borne by the Public Works Department and the Unemployment Board, and that of the other road by the Main Highways Board, the Unemployment Board, and the Waitotara County Council. The work is to be done by married relief workers. A camp will be set up shortly at a metal pit on the Kauarapaoa Rond and some 15 to 20 men will be employed in quarrying metal, which will be spread during the summer months. The work is reserved entirely for eligible and registered unemployed men. It is estimated that it will cost a total of £l2OO. The portion to be mei ailed on tin' Kauarapaoa Road is some 25 miles from Wanganui.