Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 194, 15 August 1936, Page 8

Town Talk

Air Mail’s London Arrival. The Postal Department has received advice that the Empire air mail which was despatched from Auckland on July 24 arrived at London on Monday. Australian Rugby Visitors. The Australian Rugby Union team which left Sydney for Auckland on Thursday is due to play the second match of its tour at Wanganui on August 26. The players will stay at the Rutland Hotel, arriving early in the week, after playing Auckland on the Saturday before. While in Wanganui the Australians will be the guests of the Kaierau Rugby Football Club at the club’s annual ball, which is to take place after the match. Will Rogers’ Death To-day marks the first anniversary of the deaths of Will Rogers, the popular American stage, radio, and screen comedian, and Wiley Post, lhe noted American aviator. Post, who made a record world flight with Harold Gatty, and later made a second similar flight, was accompanied by Will Rogers on a goodwill flight when they crashed when taking off from a small lake near Point Barrow. A friend of kings, emperors and dictators, Will Rogers was an international favourite and was recognised as America’s travelling goodwill agent. In his youth he visited Australia and New Zealand in a circus act. Harrier Championships The leading harriers from the Wanganui, Manawatu, Rangitikei, and Taranaki districts will be competing at New Plymouth to-day in the West Coast (N. 1. Centre’s annual championships. The Wanganui Harrier Club will be represented by two teams—one in lhe A grade and one in the B grade—and the Y.M.C.A. Club will be represented by an A grade team. The holder of the championship is C. Weller, champion of the Wanganui Club, who will be defending his title. At the conclusion of the race the team to represent the ' Centre at the New Zealand crosscountry championships at Auckland in ; two weeks’ time will be selected. Forty-hour Week. An indication that a forty-hour week would be applicable, as from September 1, to general labourers employed by the Wanganui County Council was given to a meeting of that body yesterday by the clerk (Mr. G. Darbyshire). Notice of citation under a general labourers’ award was received from the clerk of awards, and although the council decided to object to such citation, to all intents and purposes it must conform to the provisions of that award as they stand. The clerk stated that instructions had been issued to work 44 hours in the meantime, each man being strictly instructed not to exceed that number. “Yet several time sheets showed 48 hours, contrary to express instructions,” he said. New Show Grounds. Satisfactory results are being obtained by the Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association in its campaign for funds to erect the necessary buildings on the new showgrounds at Wanganui East. The association is making every effort to establish the Wanganui fixture as being one of the finest shows in New Zealand, especially in view of the fact that this is the fifth city of the Dominion. By the erection of the necessary buildings and conveniences, the association is confident that there is every possibility of the Royal Show being held here in rotation, as is the case with other centres. A large sum of money has already been spent on the grounds at Wanganui East by the City Council, on behalf of the Unemployment Board, this with a view to putting the grounds in order for show purposes. Inspection of Cadet Units. The cadet units of the Wellington West Coast Regiment, at the Wanganui Technical College, were inspected on parade yesterday afternoon, by Lieutenant-Colonel P. H. Bell, D. 5.0., N.Z.S.C., General Staff Officer, Central Command. The colonel, who is on tour a tour of inspection of the various units in the command, expressed himself as being particularly pleased with the general standard of the school units. He was favourably impressed with the physical standard of the lads on parade, and said in this connection that the material for a first class Cadet Corps was apparent. The parade concluded with a “march past,” which was particularly well carried out, the senior company passing in column by platoons, and the junior company of column of fours. New Companies. The current, issue of the Gazette contains the following in the list of companies registered: Farmers’ Industries, Ltd., Regd. August 3. Office 45 Ridgway Street, Wanganui. Capital: £20,000, into 4000 shares of £5 each. Subscribers: Wanganui—A. McPhail 5, A. McNab 5, T. R. Wright 1, S. R. Story 1, Mangamahu—A. H. Collins 5, Makirikiri—R. O. Montgomery 5. Okirae—R. J. Campion !5. Objects: Manufacturers of and dealers in all kind of stock remedies, disinfectants, and incidental. Fordell Timber and Case Co., Ltd., Regd. as a private company July 23. Capital: £2OOO into 2000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wanganui—A. J. Hughes 500. Stratford—W. J. Polson 500, E. H. Fazackerley 500, G. A. Carter 500. Objects: To carry on business as box, can tin, and case and (or) joinery and (or) wood ware and (or) carriage factory proprietors, cooperage proprietors, sawmill proprietors, and timber merchants and incidental. Control of Highways There is no clarity as yet as how far the Main Highways Board intends to take over routes in the Wanganui County. The No. 1 Line and the Parapara have been published as lengths over which the board will assume sole jurisdiction in the future, but a letter read to the council meeting yesterday was worded in such a way as to suggest that the board also contemplates taking over sole charge of the Wanganui River Road and the road from the city boundary to Kauauga- ; roa. “If that is so the county might just as well go out of business,” remarked Cr. T. Mitchell. “The board ■ will have the Pnrapara, No. 2 Line, River Road and No. 1 Line. There will be nothing for the county to do.” The chairman (Cr. Duncan Mackintosh) stated that he had discussed the matter with Mr. Ormond Wilson, M.P. for Rangitikei, who had expressed the opinion that the intention of the Highways Board was not as suggested. It would probably take over the River Road during such time as it was being reconstructed, and then hand it back. The council decided to protest at too wide an application of State control.