Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 6

Town Talk

Price of Eggs. The wholesale price of eggs in Wanganui at present is 2s 3d a dozen but the price is likely to drop as supplies come on to the market. Dairy factory Alterations. In many parts of the Dominion at the present time dairy companies are enlarging their factories in preparation for the next season. Several factories in the Wanganui and Taranaki dis tncts are undergoing strutural alterations, these including tne Westmer*? factory. The Konini factory in the Bush district and tne Riverbank factory near Woodville, are being extensively altered. Active at 94. The honour of being one of the eld cst men to climb the winding stairs to the top of the war memorial tower on Doric Hill can be claimed by a Suuih Island visitor to the city. This visitor who is celebrating his* 94th. birthday this week, climbed to the top of the tower on Monday afternoon to secure a panoramic view of the city. Yesterday he said that, except for fueling a trifle stiff, he was none the worse for his climb. National Brotherhood. meeting of the National Brotherhood movement w held in the Central Hall on Monday night when a report on the activities of the movement throughout the world was received. The following committee was set up to make arrangements for further meetings:—Sisters Randall, A. Wright and F. G. Ansley, Brothers A. Randall, A. French, Hay, F. W. Ansley. The meeting was opened with a prayer and a hymn and was closed with the Benediction. Mortgagors’ Commission. The Wellington District Mortgagors’ Relief Commission will sit in the Wanganui Courthouse for three weeks from July 7 .to hear applications under the mortgagors’ legislation. Mr. J. Harper is the chairman and will be assisted in his consideration of the requests by Messrs. K, Dalrymple (Bulls) and T. R. Barrer (Masterton). The secretary of the commission, Mr. G. Baker, will visit Wanganui for several hours to-day to make arrangements for the session. Maori Team for Waitara. Conversing with members of the Management Committee of the Wanganui Metropolitan Rugby Union last night, Mr. Alex Takarangi, sole selector of the Maori Rugby team, which is to play Taranaki Maoris at Waitara to-morrow week for the Tucra Shield, said that he had experienced no difficulty in finding sufficient players. A memorial is to be unveiled at Waitara to the late Sir Maui Pomare, and that town is to be the centre of native activity for a week or more. In past years Mr. Takarangi has experienced some difficulty in locating a full tvam for the annual trip to the neighbouring union, but on this occasion his has been greatly simplified. Overseas Mails Arriving The Shaw, Savill and A’.hion Line’s R.M.S. Mataroa is expected at Wellington to-day with 368 bags of English mail and 249 parcel receptacles for New Zealand. If the vessel arrives in time to connect with trains for tlie north, the Wanganui portion will be delivered in the city and suburbs tomorrow. The Huddart-Pa’-ker intercolonial liner Wanganella is due at Auckland to-day with mail from Australian States and beyond the Cojnmonwealth for New Zealand. The Wanganella’s (consignments include four Empire air mails, despatched from London on May 20, 24, 27, and 31. The Wanganui portion of the Wanganella’s mail will probably be delivered to-mor-row morning. Murchison Earthquake. To-day is the anniversary of the Murchison earthquake, which took place in 1929. With its death-roll of J 7, it established itself as the most disastrous seismological upheaval that New Zealand, had experienced up to that date, barring the Tarawera upheaval of 18S6, which was essentially volcanic and not seismological. Before the Murchison earthquake, only seven people had been killed in New Zealand by earthquakes since it became a British colony. The Murchison earthquake, which severely shook Wanganui and which alarmed city dwellers with the subsequent booming noises, brought the Dominion’s total death-ioil from earthquakes up to 24. But two years later the more disastrous Hawke’s Bay earthquake put the Murchison upheaval comparatively in the shade.

Religious Retreat. Under the auspices of the Presbytery of Wanganui, a retreat is being held at Hunterville on June 15 to June 18. Ten members of the Presbytery will make up the party which will occupy a large house which has been prepared for them by the minister and members of St. Andrew's Church, Hunterville. The Hunterville Club has extended the use of its club rooms to those attending the retreat. Devotional services will be held in the church every morning, and studies and discussions will comprise the remainder of the programme. The Rev. J. Paterson, M.A., of Wangauui, will deliver a lecture on John Calvin’s doctrine of authority and the doctrine of the Church. The Revs. H. L. Wilkinson, L. H. Ker, A. H. Norrie and G. b. King will give papers on the chapters of Canon Peter Green’s book ‘'The Man of God.” Referee and Team Late. Some concern was feit in Waverley last Saturday as the result of the visiting Marist Rugby football team from Wanganui, together with the icieree, arriving late. Mechanical trouble was experienced on route and the match had to start 20 minutes behind time. Tho referee (Mr. Norman Reid) in accord with usual practice, noted the fact on his team slip, and the comment he made was placed bef‘ p, o last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Metropolitan Rugoy Union. Mr. J. Moye, who accompanied the team, explained the circumstances. “It was such a good match that everybody forgot about tha team being late,” he said. “It would be as well tu bring the matter to the notice of clubs, so as to prevent the thing happening again, if that is possible. It xVas qui'e rightly pointed out to me by a Waverley official that something would be said if the Waverley team was late taking the field at bpriggens Park. A member: Wo might teh the referee that he should be up tu time, too (Laughter.) Another member: Suggest that he walk if the buz breaks down, or anybody might think the team is “squaring” him. (More laughter).