VISITORS TO THE CITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 6

VISITORS TO THE CITY

LATEST ARRIVALS GRAND HOTEL Mr. and Mrs. Symes, Christchurch; Mr. B. Price, Mr. K. P. Morpeth, Mr. L. Clarke, Mr. A. A. McCormick, Mr. S. Harris, Mr. E. Beck, Mr. C. T. H. Lukes, Auckland; Mr. E. D. Ward, Mr. H. Johnston, Mr. E. J. Mathews, Palmerston North. CRITERION HOTEL Mr. B. Mannix, Mr. A. Griffiths, New Plymouth; Mr. Jas. J. Smith, Auckland; Mr. N. Levy, Mr. C. Rogan, Wellington; Mr. J. W. Davidson, Mr. B. Trehey, Palmerston North; Mr. R. L. MacLachlan, Wellington; Mr. V. H. Dearsly, Auckland; Mr. W. H. Tooley, Christchurch; Mr. Howard, Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, Mr. S. Penny, Mr. R. Turner, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Trembath, Auckland. FOSTER'S HOTEL Mr. J. Bernau, Mr. C. W. Plimmer, Mr. N. E. Dowsett, Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard, Mr. Harris, Mr. C. B. Cox, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Haldane, Hastings; Mr. M. Sinclair, Mr. H. Edwards, Napier; Mr. T. L. H. Bates, New Plymouth; Mrs. Bradshaw, Auckland; Mr. R. L. Gibson, Marton; Mr. and Mrs. J. Jameson, Masterton; Mr. R. W. Trass, Palmerston North; Mr. J. Moody, Timaru; Mr. G. Lawrence, Hawera.

Visit to Taumarunui. Members of the Wanganui Highland Pipe Band will visit Taumarunui during the week-end. The band, which will be accompanied by a number of Wanganui artists, will leave on Saturday afternoon and present a concert at Taumarunui in the evening. A church parade will be held on Sunday morning and a further concert will be given at Ohakune on the homeward journey. In preparation for the trip, members of the band spent the whole of last Sunday practising marching and piping at Spriggens Park, the rehearsal including the drum-major’s display. Mothers’ Interests..

The fact that more than 80 per cent, of the enquiries he received for prospectuses came from mothers could be taken as an indication that it was on the maternal side that the interest of the education of their sons lay, said Mr. W. J. Gilligan, M.A., principal of the Collegiate School, in an address on Tuesday evening. He said that as far as he could see it was the policy of the majority of fathers to leave the problems of their sons’ education to the mothers. Mr. Gilligan considered that it was unfair that this should be so, contending that it was a question that should be met on a fifty-fifty basis. „

Farmers’ Union Membership Reference to a statement made recently by a member of the Legislative Council that only 10 per cent, of the farmers of New Zealand were members of their union was made at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union. "I do not know where the gentleman got his figures from. He must have reckoned that there were more than 200,000 farmers in New Zealand,” commented the president, Mr T. Currie. "I think that he had better go back to school,” he added. The secretary said that it was estimated that more than 50 per cent, of the farmers were members of the union.

Duty of Parents. “The first duty of fathers and mothers in the world of to-day is not bringing up children, but learning to live together in harmony," said Mr. F. W. Gilligan, M.A., in an address on Tuesday evening. The speaker said that it was obvious that children growing up in a home where parents disagreed in common things must be affected to a substantial degree, for in later life they would take a line from what they learned in tender years. Parents had no right to take for granted that love in the home would follow as a matter of course. Unfortunately many people lost sight of the fact that “true love meant not just being loved, but loving one another,” as a writer had quoted. Old Government Gazette.

A very interesting record of past events in the Wellington province is contained in a bound volume of the Government’s Provincial Gazette of 1861, which has been preserved by Mr. F. H. Jones, Makirikiri. It is printed on blue paper and is properly indexed. The collection of customs revenue is interesting. Mr. Charles Sharp was the collector at Wanganui in the year in question and in a return for March, 1861, it is shown that he collected f6Bl 16s 9d. The expenses of running the office were deducted from that amount—salaries, 134 8s 4, rent of office for one quarter £ll ss, incidentals £2 4s Bd. The balance (£570 18s 9d) was remitted to the collector at Wellington.