RECOGNISED A STEAMER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 242, 13 October 1936, Page 6

RECOGNISED A STEAMER

LINK WITH APPRENTICESHIP DAYS VISITING PARLIAMENTARIAN • When being driven to Parikino on I Sunday, Mr H. E. Herring, Memj ber of Parliament for Mid-Canter-i bury, one of the party which visited I Wanganui over the week-end, thought he recognised a river steamer lying i. iin the slip at Messrs Hatrick’s « | foundry, Sedgebrook. He excused - himself from yesterday morning’s e tour round various industries and bef took himself to the river and there - recognised in the Wairua a boat he n had assisted to build to the order of '. Messrs Hat rick and Company, for Messrs Yarrow and Company, shlp- . (builders, Poplar, London. e l “Those were the days when I was - [serving my apprenticeship,’’ Mr Her- ;. | ring declared, “back in, I would say, r 1 1906. There were two ships being - built for Hatricks’ that I could res j member. Naturally, I little thought n that I would ever see Wanganui, with d the emphasis on the ‘Wang,’ as we i. used to put it. much less recognise i i the boat on your river here. Cer- :> jtainlv the thought of being member s I for Mid-Canterbury in the New Zea- - . land Government never entered my - ! head." Mr Herrings served for eight years e with Messrs Yarrow and Company, s iand when he came to New Zealand, s I Sir Alfred gave him a letter of intro- . I duction to Messrs Hatrick and Com- - ; nany. “And I’ve still got it at home.’’ . 'Mr Herrings added. “Incidentally, Sir * Alfred Yarrow' presented me with £5O. •_ T would like the wheel of that boat ell saw to-day and if it is scrapped bes I fore I am I hope they will let me - I have it.” h Casting his memory back to the e ship-building days of his youth. Mr : Herrings recalled that Mr S. V. GoodI all was a fellow' apprentice. To-day |he was assistant chief constructor to - j the Royal Navy. and the Government he extended his „ ' congratulations anef best wishes to the r - ••thn’'itir r controlling the work at _ 'th r - airnort. the Wanganui Aero Clun p 1 ''•••«■? ‘h" Western Federated Firing . -Cl”b. ( Several questions were asked by o the visitors and wer° answered bv the f , j -.rpdrinnf anf j FFpht-Lieutenant Tan • Keith. , Day’s Activities ° Drring the morning the • isitors ” I were taken on a tour of inspection through the Southern Cross Biscuit • [Factory. This was followed by a ° jvisit to Bassett’s timber factory ana e i the Sash and Door Company’s factory. ° I After the visit to the Wanganui Airlf | port, members of the delegation were ■ taken to the new Maori church at v [ Putiki, where the native carvers e i were watched at work. Pho visitors s I were entertained <*t afternoon tea by ° the Maoris and then made a visit of e i inspection to the W anganui Steei Pipe Works. n | 1 ( Working “Bee” 'f i A strong working “bee" responded ito the appeal of the Wanganui A. ana P Association to erect sheep hurdles ’f and horse jumps on the racecourse grounds, where the annual show will be held next month. Yesterday mornd ing some 50 stewards and members ” were operating under the lead of the d jovial president. Mr Duncan Mackinv tosh, and work went with such a e swing in spite of the heavy rain that >- 650 new hurdles for the sheep pen& n were completed. All the pens, which t will be in the saddling paddock near o the members’ stand, have not vet g , been .erected, and members of the I J working bee yesterday decided to es complete the task this morning.