MARTON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 28 August 1935, Page 9

MARTON

MARTON A. AND P. SHOW At a meeting of the Alarton Jockey Chib last night a deputation representing the Alarton District A. and P. Association attended with reference to holding the show on the racecourse. The terms of the club were unanimously ' agreed to by the members of the assoI eiation \s deputation, and as a result the I next show, on Thursday, Jani'ary 30, .1936, will bo held on the Marion Race I course. AiARTON BOROUGH W'JKKS COMAIITTEE ’S REPORT The Woihs Committee (Crs. A. A. Mclndo'c, .1. D. Gorric, W. B. Langston and A. Honeyman) .presented the following report to Alonduy night’s meeting of the Alarton Borough Coun Lyon Street. —We do not consider it advisable to interfere with the align ment of this street in order to get a building site on Cuba Street. Therj is still some old bricks and J'rubbery on the section recently aequiird by tin council. This should uc cleared away and the section cleaned up. Harris Street Footpath.—Theie is a footpath on tjie south side of this street. If funds are available a p-tii might be formed and metalled on the northern side from Ross Street to Mr. Abel's property. A hawthorn tree overhanging the path at Cameron> property should be cut back. Wellington Road Footpath.— The roots of perhaps half-a-dozen trees are raising the asphalt. These could be cut out and the pavement repaired. '1 he asphalt generally requires repairing, particularly south of Toia Street. As this road carries considerable motor traffic the footpath could with ndvnn tage bo continued, say, to Gray’s property. New Dray.—Wo have inspected the old dray and consider that the present dray would still give good service if fitted with new wheels and a.xle a.id one, new shaft. Sheds in Borough Yards.—The she Is l.i the borough yards are ifl need u! repairs. The back of one part is Li di’-ger of collapsing. An open sh:.l should also be provided to house Du water cart and broom, also the engine should be under cover. Drains. —A drain crosses High Street and passes under the library ami dischanges into an open cut in the Police Station property. The drain in the police yard requires cleaning uut as Half tho outlet of the pipe is blocked with silt. Ross Street.—We received a complaint re blackberry on a Harris Street pioperty spreading to neighbouring sections, ho think the owner shoulu be notified tu have the blackberry cleared. Street Lights.—We consider the lighting of Follett Street and Giay Street would be considerably improved if the present bracket lamp at the intersection was suspended over the street. Air. 11. Baxter asked the committee for a load of metal at the entrance tc his property. ANNUAL BULB SHOW St. Steph-en's Bulb Show is to be held this year on Thursday mid Friday, September .19 and 20. The schedules have been printed, and are now being distributed. Anyone desiring copies can obtain them from Messrs. Ingle Bros., and lune’s, or they will be posted on application to Alan Gib son, secretary, who will also he pleased to supply any further information. THE AIARTON PLAYERS Last night tho Alarton I'iayer.- helu their eleventh play-reading in Miss Barker’s studio. The play was Sil ►Limes Larric’s three-acc play. “A Kiss for Lindeicila,” procured bv 'L-- A. U. Birch.. Prior to the reading Miss Urooko gave a biicf account oi the happening.-; at tin: festival in Palmerston North, and their aiming in journvyirg hence an i so forth. THE CIVIC THEATRE Tall, lanky Gary Cooper and bionde. exotic. Anna bten are paired for the first time as a new romantic team in “The Wedding Night,” which will be finally shown this (Wednesday) after noon and evening. It. is a Samuel Goidwyu production, directed by King Vidor., and features Ralph Bellamy. Helen Vinson and Siegfried Kumann. I he Woddiug Night” is a dramatu romance in which .Miss Sten portravs

a modern American girl rebelling agaiiibt tire dictates and restraints <h tradition, and Gary Cooper appear.'. a s a bUCC'JL'iJuI, sophisticated New York author wita whom she falls in love. Miss Sten’s part is in sharp contrasi to her previous performances in “Nana” and “We Live Again.’’ Ju the first ,she wa-. an exotic, languorous woman of Paris, and in the second a simple peasant of Russia. Ju “The Wedding Night’’ she emerges thoroughly Ameri.'an in dress, talk and actions. RUGBY AND HOCKEY Rugby and hockey enthusiasts are well catered fur at the Marton ParK this af ternc-on. The Taranaki ana Kangitikei lady hockey representatives met in their annual mutcii. 'l'hwrc is also a Rugby fixture between the local machine-gun suction and t'ie Mounted Rifles, play commencing at 2.30 p.m. Marron Machine-gunners’ team to play tiie “ Mounteds’’: —T. Lewis, K. Coles, L. Moss, K. Parkinson, B. Lewis, C. Johnstone, [•'. Taaffe, F. Death, A. Clark, Shannon, 1). Weight, H. Aioss. J. Ward, Rose, Douglas. Emergency: Ireland. Players to assemble al Marton Hotel at 2.15 p.m. and a.c to provide their own jerseys. MOTOR-CAR CAPSIZES .lust before 9 o'clock on 'i uesday morning a car driven by Laurence Hugh Clapham, manager of the Fresii Food Co., Wanganui, ami residing at Hawcra, tame to grief on the Fern Flats Road just beyond the Western Kangitikei {School. There is a sharp bend in the road and the vehicle developed a wobble and getting out of control careered ovet the baiiK, finlsn ing upside down Clapham esca|yed injury aml John Wynne, secretary to the company, escaped with abrasions, but another j'ii> senger, Lewis Hickman, sustained head injuries ami was taken to hospital.