Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 151, 28 June 1934, Page 4

Town Talk

Donation to Dental Clinic. A donation of £1 was made towards the funds of the Mobile Dental Clinic by the Wanganui executive of the Farmers’ Union yesterday. The clinic is to start operations early in August, and will attend 16 schools between Maxwell and Turakina. Membership Campaign. Steady progress is being made with the membership campaign inaugurated by the Wanganui Agricultural Associa tion. A total of 103 new members were enrolled yesterday. It was reported by Mr. J. G. Alexander that there were but two residents of the Maxwell district who were not members (applause). Air R. Farley: It is much the same in Westmere. Diagonal Parking. City Council officials have completed the marking of parking lines on the south-western side of Victoria Avenue to permit of the diagonal parking of motor-cars. It was originally intended to have cars parked at an angle of 30 degrees, but experiments disclosed the fact, that parking at a more acute angle, preferably 25 degrees, gave the best results. Mobile Dental Clinic. The following donations to the Wanganui Mobile Dental Clinic Funds are acknowledged:—Fordell Dental Committee, £10; Wangac-hu Dental Cimmittee, £4 14s 6d; Kai Iwi Dental Committee, £4 15s. With the addition of the Rapanui cheque for £ll 2s 3d acknowledged in yesterday’s issue, this makes the total in response to the appeal £36 Ils 9d. Truck Axle Breaks. A broken axle of a truck on the mixed train which left Wanganui at 4 o’clock on Tuesday for Hawera was responsible for some delay between Westmere and Kai Iwi. The mishap occurred before the train reached Kai Iwi and, in consequence, the south-bound New Plymouth-to-Wanganui fast express was affected. Passengers were transferred from the latter train to motor buses at Kai Iwi and brought into Wanganui.

Habits of Wood Borer. Observations with regard to the habits of borer, collected over a period of many years, were related to a gathering of farmers at the Farmers’ Union rooms at Wanganui yesterday by Mr. R. A. Montgomerie. He claimed that borer would not attack wood that had been cut when the sap was down, during the winter, but that it would attack the wood cut when the sap was up at other periods of the year. A collection of various woods has been carefully made by Mr. Montgomerie and was used to demonstrate his assertions. He also claimed that if timber used for rails and fences were placed with the heart uppermost, the timber would not rot, and said the greatest mistake was made when the bark was put uppermost. A Valued Department. ‘‘The Government of New Zealand and the people generally have never fully realised the value of the Dcpartmnt of Agriculture, not only to the farmers but to the country as a whole,” said Mr. C. 11. Walker yesterday, when a farewell was being tendered to Mr. Hugh Cleland, stock inspector at Wanganui, who is under transfer to Auckland. “I have always held the opinion that Parliament should increase the monetary vote for that department, particularly for the Fields Division. There are not enough officers and the department has not enough facilities for distributing the knowledge those officers have. It has not been functioning as it should because of cheese paring. It is a great mistake to cut down a valuable department like that, especially when you see money lavishly expended on things that do not matter.” College Rugby Fixtures. Not the least interesting matches of the Rugby season arc those played by the two Wanganui Colleges. Fixtures for the Wanganui Collegiate School have been announced as follow: v. Te Auto College, July 11 (at homo); v. Palmerston North High School, July 25 (away); Now Plymouth Boys’ High School, August 8 (away). The intercollegiate tournament will be played at Christchurch this year, and the dates fixed are from August 18 to August 20 inclusive. The Wanganui Technical College will play the following games: v. Wellington Technical College, July 4 (away); Palmerston North Boys’ High School, July J 8 (at home); v. Collegiate School at Collegiate, August 1; v. Stratford Technical High Schoo] August 13 (at home). Hockcv matches have been arranged for the Technical College as follow: v. Wellington Tech nical College, July 13 (away); v. . Auckland Grammar School, July 17 (at home). Education Board. Election. Nominations closed yesterday for the biennial election of members of the Waftganui Education Board. Messrs. E. F. Hemingway (chairman; and R. Dukeson, the sitting members for the West and North Wards respectively, have been re-elected unopposed. Three nominations have been received for the vacancy in the Wanganui Urban Area caused by the retirement of Mr. J. Aitken, namely, Messrs. B. D. Rule and C. 11. Cliukard, and Rev. G. S. King. In the Palmerston North Urban Area the sitting member, Air. H. W. Oram has again been nominated, and is opposed by Messrs. W. G. Black and J. T. J. Heatlcy. In the aoutn Ward, Air. C. N. Rabone is opposing Air. J. K. Hornblow, the sitting member. The elections in these areas are conducted by postal ballot, the ballot closing on Wednesday, Juy 18. To allow time for the receipt of voting papers from outlying districts, the votes arc not opened and counted until July 25.

New Zealand Cheese. At a meeting of the General Committee of the Wanganui Agricultural Association yesterday it was decided to write a letter complimenting the Westmere Dairy Company on its recent successes at Dominion shows. Mr. J. AIcL. Blair, who suggested that course being taken, said that an agricultural association should interest itself in all matters affecting the farmer. Its scope was a good deal broader - than merely holding shows. Air. R. Farley, who supported Air. Blair, said that the success achieved by the Westmere factory countered the belief that was prevalent that New Zealand cheese wis adversely affected by high testing milk. The Westmere factory was one of the high eat tested in New Zealand and the country on which the herds were milked was some of the richest. The motion to congratulate the factory was carried, and it was made to include tne manager, the chairman and directors and the staff, members strvsing the fact- that much of a dairy factory’s sue cess depended upon every individual member of itg staff.