Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 8

Town Talk

Slip on Parapara. Yesterday afternoon a slip came down on the Parapara Road at the nine mile peg near Mr. J. A. ’Todd’s home. Workmen immediately commenced to construct a detour and cars were able to pass. Motorists using the road to-day are advised to use caution in passing the slip as the detour road is in a muddy state. Street Collection The town clerk <Mr (L Murch> advises that in the list published of collections made in the street in Wanganui on Wednesday last for the King George V. Memorial Fund, lhe total in respect to London!own should have read £6 JOs 3d. This total collected by the staff of that firm was made up of three amounts—£2 13s lOd, £l. 18s 9d, and £1 17s Bd. Only one (the latter) amount was published on Thursday morning. | Names of New Airliners. i Union Airways three Lockheed Electra 10-passengcr monoplanes, which are being assembled at the Hobsonvillc Air Base for use on the Auckland-Wellington service, will be given Maori names as is the case with the three D.H. 86’s used on the Palmerston North-Dunedin run. The names of the Lockheed Electras will be Kotare (Kingfisher), Kuaka (Godwit), and Kereru (Wood Pigeon). The new machines are two engined monoplanes with a cruising speed of 180 miles an hour and will be the fastest aeroplanes in New Zealand. Home Liners to Load. Five Home boats are expected to load in the Wanganui roadstead this month, one of which, the Huntingdon, is en route from Glasgow direct. On Monday the Tongariro is due from Port Chalmers and is listed to sail about next Wednesday for New Plymouth and other New Zealand ports in continuation of her Homeward loading programme. The Westmoreland is expected some time next week, and will be followed by the Port Fairy, due from Waikokopu on June 21. From Glasgow direct, the Huntingdon is scheduled to arrive on June 25 and the last vessel of the series is the Melbourne Star, due from New Plymouth on June 29. Post Office Holiday. The Wanganui Chief Post Oflice will be closed in all branches on Wednesday next (King’s Birthday). Mails for the principal offices throughout the Dominion, however, which usually close after eight o’clock in the morning, will close at 7.30 a.m. No delivery of correspondence will be made by postmen or nural contractors on the King’s Birthday, but the usual midnight clearance cf receivers will be made on Tuesday. A delivery of correspondence, registered as well as ordinary, usually delivered by postmen, will be made from the inquiry window, Postmen’s Branch, between seven and eight o’clock on Tuesday evening. Continuous attendance will be observed in the telephone exchange and the telegraph office will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and 7 p.m. to midnight. Overseas Mail.s The- next Australian mail is expected at Wellington next Tuesday j when the Huddart-Parker Line’s in- ; tercolonial motor-liner Wanganella; arrives from Sydney. Friday next. , the Matson liner Monterey, en route to Australia from San Pedro, is expected at Auckland with English and American mail, the Wanganui portion of which is expected to reach the Chief Post Office in time for distribution the following day. The only other English mail expected next week is coming by the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Rotorua, due at Auckland from London on Saturday next. Owing to the withdrawal of the Union liner Awatea, mail services across the Tasman are not as frequent as they were during the summer and autumn months. The Awatea is undergoing; an extensive overhaul in Sydney and will resume at the end of next month. ,