Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 125, 28 May 1936, Page 6

Town Talk

* Representative Referees ’ Advice was received from lhe Referees’ Appoiiitiiient Busrd at last night’s meeting of the Management Committee of the Wan rt :intr. Itugbv Union that it had approved of Messrs N. Keifl, G. Thrush, and W. Reid as suitable referees -for controlling representative matches. Saturday’s Rugby Matters in connection with the Rugby matches between Wanganui and Taranaki at Wanganui and New Plymouth were finalised at last nigin ’s meeting of the Management Committee of the Wanganui Rugby Union last night. Messrs A. Takarangi and F. Whiting were appointed as managers for (he two teams, lhe question of which manager will accompany the B (cam to New Plymouth will be decided to-day. Veterinary Surgeon Required. The question of engaging a le-jY’ent veterinary surgeon for the Wanganui district has been given considerable attention for some time past, le all probability the matter will be finalised at a special meeting which has been arranged for to-morrow night, to which all dairy farmers and directors of dairy companies are invited. The conveners are .Messrs. T. Alexander, chairman of the Okoia Dairy Company and F. Johnson, chairman of the Wangaehu Dairy Company. The meeting is to be held in the Accountants’ Chambers and is timed to commence at 7.30 p.m. Heavy Passenger Traffic. A a result of the end of the first term holidays there was a considerable increase in railway passenger traffic over the week-end. Trains on the Main Trunk were exceptionally heavy and on Sunday night the Limited to’'Wellington comprised 17 cars, it being necessary to put on six extra, one being a sleeper. The Now Plymouth portion of the Limited, which usually consists of three cars, was supplemented by four iextra and lhe department found it necessary to run a special to New Plymouth, instead of being attached to the Limited. The New Plymouth expresses passing through Aramobo ori Saturday were full (rains and additional cars were provided to cope with the traffic. The “Flyer’’ (<> and from Taranaki and all mixed trains in the Wanganui dis-I trict were full also. Interested in Life-Saving. “Your voluntary life-saving system on the beaches in this country is just wonderful/’ said Mr. Paul Boesch, the New York wrestler, in an interview with a “Chronicle” reporter in his dressing room at the Opera House las: night just before bis bout with Joe Woods, or Los Angeles. “Over where 1 come from we have lifeguards and when somebody is rescued from the sea people on the beach are often called on to pull in the line, and the way they do it is simply terrible. Your system is a good one, and I could quite i easily get a lot of good chaps interested in it back home.’’ Mr. Boesch added that he had already come into contact with responsible life-saving officials i.i Wellington and would do s-o later in Dunedin. Vessel Delayed by Engine Trouble. To have repairs made to her port engine, the Northern Company 's motorship Hauturu returned to Onehunga on Monday night. The vessel left Onehunga lor Hokianga and Auckland on Monday afternoon and after she had crossed the .Manukau Bar a fault developed in the engine. Using only her starboard engine she then re-crossed the bar and returned to Onehunga. The vessel resumed her trip after repairs were completed the following day. The Hauturu has been withdrawn from the Onehunga-New Plymouth - Wanganui service for her annual overhaul and survey. I his will lake place when she goes on tie slip at Auckland. Meanwhile her p.acc, the service has been taken by the same company's auxiliarv motor-ship Ronaki, which ’ arrived at Wanganui late yesterday afternoon. The Ronaki is a vessel of 259 tons' gross register and is not unlike the Hauturu in appearance. About two years have elapsed since the Ronaki! last visited Wanganui. Sold for Scrap Metal. The Anchor .Shipping and Foundry Company’s coastal steamer Orepnki, well known at Wanganui, has been sold to Messrs, p. E. Jackson and Co., of Auckland, and will shortly be broken up for the metal of her hull and engines. She will be the fifth vessel to meet a similar fate within the past few months. The Orepuki visited Wanganui for the last time in October. 1935, when she was running under charter to the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company in the Du'nedin-Welling-ton-Wanganui service. She went off the run shortly before the new motorship Gale arrived in New Zealand waters and has since been laid up at Nelson. The Orepnki is a single-screw steamer of 545 tons gross register and was built in 1908 by the Goole Shipbuilding and Repairing Co., Ltd., Goole. Other vessels which at one time traded to Wanganui and have been sold for scrap metal are the Regulus and the Calm. The work of scrapping the Calm commenced at Lyttelton a few weeks ago, while the vessel was still lying alongside the wharf. Only the shell of the steamer now remains, and this will shortly be placed on the slip, when the final task nf the Calm’s demolition will be carried nut.