Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 110, 11 May 1936, Page 6

Town Talk

Club Address. The speaker at to-inoriuw’s diiuicr of the Wanganui Optimists' Club at the Elrick at 5.45 p.m. will be Uaplain 17. 11. Whiting, who will relate a number of his experiences during the Great War. Captain Whiting addressed the | club last year and to-iuurrow \s address will be a continuation of bis previous observations. Garrison Band. Yesterday afternoon Ue Wanganui Garrison Band, under the coiiductorship of Mr. JI. Francis, paraded :u the Wanganui Public Hospital, where a picgramme of music was presented and visits made tu the various wards. ; In the evening the band held its final I Bunday night concert when ivenis were ] given by Alisa Jean Harman, Mr. Peter | Buchan and Master Barrie Trusscil, The band’s programme iuchi'ied “In a Monastery Garden/’ •' Rigolct to '•' and i the hymn ‘ • Horbury. ' Produce for Home - j After spending two days i (l the Wanganui roadstead, the Fedeiai freighter ITongariro sailed on Saturday for WelJingtcm, her final port of <-all on the :New Zealand coast. The \ essel loaded i wool, frozen meat and dairv produce, j She arrived at Wellington vesterdav iand is to sail on Thursday fur London •and West Coast ports of Great Britain, i Expected in the roadstead this morning jis the freighter Middlesex, which will I also load quantities of Yv’angantii proI d-ucc for the London market. This vessel is to leave Wanganui to-morrow for [ Wellington, from which port she is ; .’•chvdulcd to sail next Saturday fur ! Southampton and London, v - .,-; I lie l Panama Canal, j Evangelist Learns Maori. ] When addressing an audience of 1000 people in Hamilton hist week, Mr. Edwin Orr, the Irish evangelist, -who was recently in Wanganui asked how many present could speak Maori. One solitary hand went up. Mr. Urj- said he had bven in New Zealand for on!y tarec weeks and had learned all the Maori he could. He demonstrated his linguistic ability by singing a song in Maori. Mr. Orr remarked that the Maori language was a most beautiful one, and. the Maoris were the finest of the so-called native races Ire bad met. He expressed regret that more .New Zealand pakehas had not made themselves familial with the language. i Early Morning Workers. In the early hours ut luy morning a large gang of City Council workmen were engaged on the- tramway construction work at the intersection or Victoria Avenue and Guyton Street. The work was done during ihe early hours v.ith the aid ot: powerful lights and toe ordinary discharge lamp-, in order that tram traihc wuuid not be delayed. The loop frum the Imperial Hotel has now been laid light up to where the present double track ceases and the work of joining up the new length will soon be undertaken. Yesterday morning workmen were engaged in refilling portions of the excavation around the corner and an electric Avoiding machine was being used in joining up lengths uf rail. a Interest in Sea Lion. Although just an ordinary lion i who by some mischance managed to come ashore on a southern beach nud make a home there, ‘‘Joey.’’ th-e Dunedin sea Hon who died in the Wellington Zoo last week, managed tu gain considerable publicity for himself. From the time uf “ Joey’s” transfer to the zou until the announcement of his death his welfare and future were matters of interest to many thousand people who had never even seen him. “Jo'Oy” secured columns of publicity in many New Zealand papers and photographs of him were published in periodicals on the other side of the world. His sudden death on 'J hursday was the subject of conversation in many quarters in Wanganui, and in the Press he was given an “obituary” worthy of a prominent citizen. Overseas Mail Arriving J’’our ovei.-D'as maiL are ••.xpc'-ud at i Wanganui to-morrow, via New Zealand | port-. A i-oinparati'. cly i.ti fio English imaii is expected at \\\ liiiigtoi’. this I morning when the New Zealand bhipj ping Company 's 11.M.5. ilcmuera ari lives from London. The ves. e! is bringing 1200 bags for the Dcminicn and labouc 200 parcel receptacles, n’so for i distribution in New Zeeland. The \Yan’ganui portion of the Rcniuer *s mail ■ will probably be delivered in the city I and suburbs to-moirow mori.ing. Also j expected at Wellington 10-day :< the | Union Company 's ILM Mnkura, which left Sydney last Phursdav for San FranC’isYo, \ i-i New Zc-ahiml and island ports. The Makuru . as- a large quantity of Australian r.:a'! arid consignment!s from beyond the- ConimonI wealth. The Wanganui poriMu of ill> 'mail will probably be delivcied io-raor-I row, also. A further English mail is expected at Auckland tu-day •• her the C. and A. liner Niagara arrives i.-ui Vancouver, and an additional Australian mail is coming in the Union Company’s intercolonial steanifi Monowai. This vessel left Sydney jast Friday afternoon and is one at A.in kiand I' |afternoon. Both the-e mails are expected to reach the Wanganui Chief | Post Office in time for ..leuvery in the ‘city and suburbs to-morrow . icirning. i If these sihips all arrive to «uhedu!? mid | arc delivered in Wanganui to-morrow, j the mailroom >'tai"f and p >stmer will i experience an exceptionally busy period.