Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 195, 21 August 1935, Page 6

Town Talk

I School Holidays. I Schools in the Wanganui district "il be closing on Friday for the second term holidays, primary schools rc-open i after a fortnight and the schools will resume after an interval of j three weeks, Goldfinches, Therc-are Inigo numbers of guldI finches about Wanganui at present, jespeci.illy in the sandy areas about Gonville. Green linnets are also very prelx aleut, ami move about from place to place in large flocks. “City Manager." “The time is opportune to consider whether our municipal affairs would be more effectively administered by the appointment of a city manager, 0 says the annual report of the Wanganui and District Development League, to be presented on Thursday night. League to Abolish Poverty. By Saturday last the number of sig- ' natures secured iu Wanganui for the petition to the King, promoted by the League to Abolish Poverty, had reached 3500. Recently a big meeting was held in Auckland under the auspices of the league and the work ia going on apace there. Younger Blood Wanted. “It is to be regretted that more of our young citizens do not come forward and display an interest in the welfare of our beautiful city.”—An extract from the annual report of the Wanganui and District Development League, which is to be presented at the annual meeting to-morrow night. Touring Hockey Team. Last evening a Wanganui Technical College hockey team left for Auckland where matches against Mt. Albert and Auckland Grammar Schools have been arranged. The games will be played to-day and to-morrow and the players will arrive back in Wanganui on Saturand the Army. Two very interesting addresses were given at a gathering of the Wanganui Garrison Officers’ Club last night. Commissioner Hector Christie gave an interesting outline of the work and value of the Boy Scout Movement, and Captain Barry, N.Z.S.C., of the First Batalion, Wellington West Coast Regiment, gave a resume of military matters of importance generally. Mining Shares. When a witness in the Supremo Court at Wanganui yesterday was asked the value of gold-mining shares he had, he replied that they “might be worth something to-day and nothing to-mor-row.” He then looked hard at His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, as though trying to determine the value. His Honour: There is no | use looking at me. I don’t know the value of mining shares. Wanganui Rugby Team. The Wanganui Rugby team which is in the South Island will play its final match at Christchurch to-day, against Canterbury, holders of the Ranfurly Shield. The Shield will not be at stake. Canterbury, probably with every justification, having laid it down as a policy not to allow the trophy to be played for on Wednesdays when the province would have difficulty in putting the best side in the field. Wanganui has played two matches on the southern tour so far. The team lost to Otago by a substantial margin, and defeated Southland by one point. Interested in the Court. I There was above average interest in the proceedings of the Supreme Court at Wanganui yesterday, and the gal lery ineluded a large proportion of young women. They remained in close attention on the ease, one in which a breach of promise was the basis, until the end. His Honour, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, gave his judgment, and, just as he was preparing to determine the amount of costs and othci disbursements for entry in the Court records, the crowd started to move. “Seeing they have waited so long,” said His Honour, “they can wait til.’ the very end now. They will stay until the Court rises.” He then proceeded to make his entries while guardians of the law kept watchful eyes on the assembled throng, which had suddenly become quietened like a class iu the primers!