Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 115, 18 May 1939, Page 6

Town Talk

High Barometer Reading. The barometric - pressure in Wanganui yesterday was unusually high and, according to one source, higher than it has been for more than 12 months. The reading at the pilot station at Uastleclil’t was 30.60 inches.

Sir Truby King Fund. Mr. vV. j. Rogers, Mayor of Wan-! ganui, has opened subscription lists i for the Sir Trudy King Memorial Fund at the Wanganui c-ty Council office in St. Hiii Street and at the gas department's office in Victoria* Avenue. Influenza Epidcr.uc. ihe epidemic cf ; neumur..;. o.nu gas- ! ;ric influenza in Wanganui is ieport-■ ed to be on the wane. Sheeny before ! the primary and secondary schools! closlu lor tne first ierm vacation tin. | epidemic was fairly severe and school! .oils had decreased conslueraoiy. A. alu.r? oi the epiovinic has been the severity of many the cases, mild j The Right Hand K In a Supreme CuulL a Lion al \\ anganui yesterday, in v.nich a moloicyclist claimea damages for injury j suffered as the result of a collision with a.motor-car, the rule that traffic I should give way to traffic coming from thj right was sLik.ssed. “it is the duty of a moloriA, not only to look to the right, - ’ observed His Honour, Sir Hubeit Ostler, "out also to the I left to see whether any fool is not I obeying the regulations.’ I Wanganui Optimists’ Chib. ! 'i’he speaker- at this week's luncheon of the Wanganui Optimists’ club was I Mr. M. A. Kitchen, whose subject was i • The Visual Function.’’ Dining the i luncheon the president, Mr. It. 1-rince, announced that the business meeting jand election of officers would be heiu I next Tuesday at 4.45 p.m. He appealed to last year’s members to attend and for each member to enrol a new member. The club has issued an invitation lor young men between the ages of 20 and 45 years to attend the meeting. National Party Conference. Delegates., from more than 25 electorates attended the Wellington Divisional conference of the New Zealand National Parly at Palmerston North yesterday, the Wanganui branch being represented oy three delegates. A number of remits dealing with questions of policy anti other matters were considered and are lo be forwarded to the Dominion conference. The Leader of the exposition, the Hon. Adam Hamilton, attended the conference and addressed a social gathering last night. Supreme < ourt. The time of me Supreme Coi.it at Wanganui was occupied yesterday with the hearing of a civil ciaim for damages for injuries suffered by a motor-cyclist, when a collision occurred at the corner of Guyton Street and Ridgway Street Extension. Three questions were placed before a jury by the presiding judge, Sir Hubert Ostler. This morning another jury will be empanelled to hear a claim for damages against a New Zealand’ company operating a factory in Wan-1 ganui. To-morrow His Honour wil; lake matters in divorce. Rugby on Sundays. A protest at the action of the Manawatu Rugby Union in renting the Rugby Park area for Sunday lootball matches, was contained in a letter received at a meeting of the Management Committee ot the union from the Ministers’ Association. “Such a practice,” the letter stated, “is strictly out of harmony with the Rugby traditions of this country. We feel sure that the decision ol your committee was made quite out of a lack of knowledge of this fact.” When the matter came up tor consideration, it was pointed out that while the union had granted permission, the Palmerston North City Council had the last say. It was decided, to refer the Ministers’ Association to the City Council. Maori Population. Interesting figures on the Maori population of New Zealand are contained in a circular received by the Wanganui Rugby Union. They were as follows: North Auckland, 19,790; Auckland, 6120; Thames Valley, 1630; Waikato, 7040; Bay of Plenty, 13,200; East Coast, 6870; Poverty Bay, 2400; Hawke’s Bay, 7970; King Country, 6090; Taranaki, 3790; Wanganui, 3470; Manawatu, 1000; Horowhenua, 1710; Bush. 80; Wairarapa, 114(j; Wellington, 880 Nelson, 50; Golden Bay, 120; Marlborough, 500; Buller, 30; West Coast, 160; Canterbury, 920; Ashburton, 20; South Canterbury, 280; North Otago, 60; Otago, 330; Southland. 450; total, 82,160. Phosphate Ship Arrives. With 5000 tons of rock phosphate, loaded at Nauru Island at the rate of 1000 tons an hour on the cantilever principle, the latest of the Bank Line’s freighters, the Teviotbank, arrived at Wanganui yesterday. She will discharge her cargo at the Castlecliff Wharf to-day for Kempthorne Prosser and Company's fertiliser works at Aramoho. It is only 14 months since the Teviotbank was launched from the slips of John Readhead and Son at South Shields. Leaving London on her last voyage on February 4, she went from Flushing to Aden to load salt for Japan. The cargo was discharged at Yokohama and Nagoya in April and afterwards the ship went to Miike to bunker. Milke was left on A;ril 19 and Nauru Island was reached on May 1. Rail-Car Service. So popular has the rail-car service between Wellington, Wanganui and New Plymouth proved that it is expected that within the next five or six months the service will be changed ! from tri-weekly to daily. The present ; season is regarded as a slack time for ! rail traffic but the rail-car has had a full complement on most of its trips and on every Sunday many would-be , passengers have had to be turned > down, the accommodation being book- . ed out before the car left New Ply- [ mouth. When the service was started last month it was felt in some quarters that it would be some time before 1 the new form of rail transport was ! popular, but the rail-car has exceeded all expectations. A suggestion has also ’ been made that rail-cars would be ’ used to provide a more rapid service between Wellington, Wanganui and 1 ew Plymouth during the week-end.