Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 4

Town Talk

Pipe Band Parade. Members of the Wanganui Highland < ' Pipe Band will parade at Aramoho ' Park to-night, when a programme of music will be presented. Training College Opening. Notification has been received by the Wanganui Education Board that ; the Christchurch Training Co’lege ’ opens for the new year on February | 12. I Saved By a Tree. i When a motor-car driven by Mr, J. i 1 IT. Anderson, of Palmerston North. . left the Turakina Valley Road on ! Tuesday afternoon only a small tree i saved it from falling 100 feet down a ; steep bank. Little damage was done ; and no one injured. More State Houses. Ten more State rental houses are I ! being built on St. John’s Hill in Hau-• ’ nui Crescent, Taranaki Street and | ! Peakes Road. The new houses will | comprise eight single units and two double units. Seven of the houses will be of brick, two of weatherboarding and one of plaster. Railway Excursions Curtailed There will be fewer rail excursions from Wanganui this summer, the number arranged being six compared with. 17 last year. Excursions are held from November to May. One of the reasons for the curtailing of the number of excursion trips is that the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition at Wellington is one of the chief tourist attractions at present. Mysterious Bullet Holes The mystery of bullet holes in a cottage at Collier’s Junction, near Taihape, has not yet been solved in spite of widespread investigations. The cottage was occupied by Mr. W. G. Hagan, a roadman, who was in bed when he heard shots being fired. He found a bullet hole in his bedroom wall and another in the roof, a third being found lodged in the timber. Sixpence a Head. ■‘Apparently human lives are valued at sixpence a head, judging by the amount received for rescuing 43 persons from danger in the surf at Castlecliff,” remarked a member of the Castlecliff Surf Section when it was reported that a donation of 10s 6d had been received from one of the rescued persons. This was the sole financial recognition made of the Surf Section’s activities in effecting 43 rescues. Harrier Champion Injured. Slight concussion was suffered by Mr. C. Weller, of Wanganui, the National cross-country champion, when his motor-car .struck a telegraph pole on the corner of Lilhton Street and Heads Road on Tuesday night. He is making a good recovery at home and hopes to be about again next Monday. Mr. Weller was to have I been married yesterday. He leaves for T’ri.nl Ivtiivi iv £ vf wppL' In i(>ill 1 IIP NOW

I'rcntham next week to join the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Water Volo. Two games in the Wanganui Swimming Centre’s water polo championship competitions were played at the St. George's Gate baths last night, Wanganui Central defeating Gonviile in both A and 13 grade championship games. The A grade game was won by three goals to one, and the B grade by three goals to two. Another series will he played this evening, th-' Gonviile and Wanganui East A and B grade teams playing at. Gonviile and anganui East baths respectively. Size of Fish Set Out A minimum size for all edible fish offered for sale has been drawn up in amendments to the Sea Fisheries Regulations which have just been gazetted. The minimum sizes are: Butlerfish, 13in„ dabs (white or square flounders) 9in., flounders (yellow bellies) 10in., hapuka or groper 24in., kingfish (northern) 16in., moki Ilin., mullet Ilin., red cod 10in., schnapper 10in., soles (English) 10in., soles (lemon 9in., all other flat fish 10in., terakihi 10in., trevally 10in., trumpeter 14in., warehou 9in. Rowing Crew in Training. The Union Boat Club’s eight-oar crew, which has held the New Zealand title since it was created three years ago, is in hard training for its encounter with the Australian eightoar crew at the Auckland regatta at Mercer. The Aramoho Club will send a crew to meet the Australians at Mercer if its eight gives a good showing at the Jury Cup regatta on Saturday. The Union Boat Club is using its launch during training rows every night so that the coach, Mr. W. G. Coombes, can secure close-up views of the crew in action. • Air I’orce Trainees. Included in the draft of 21 trainees from the Weraroa training school of the Royal New Zealand Air Force; who have been transferred to the elementary flying school at New Plymouth are four Wanganui young men. They are Messrs. C. C. White, M. R. Clark, G. N. Marshall and C. S. Greager. Messrs. Clark and Marshall were members of the Wanganui Aero Club and were trained under the Government’s scheme for the building up of a civil reserve of pilots. Two remaining members of the reserve in Wanganui will go to training schools at an early date. The Regimental Band. Under the conductorship of Warrant Officer A. Ramsay the Band of the Wellington-West Coast Regiment will parade in Victoria Avenue tomorrow night and present a programme of music. The band has been granted permission to take up a collection to augment the fund being raised by the Citizens’ Committee to send the band to the New Zealand centennial contest at Wellington next month to compete in the C grace sec' tion. Although the band includes in its numbers several young noys its musical standard has been frequently favourably commented on. Pipe Band Contest. The Wanganui Highland Pipe Band will leave on Friday January 26 to attend the annual championship contest at Wellington, the A Grade bands participating on Saturday, January 27. Many inquiries have been received regarding the likelihood of running a special train to enable supporters of the band to attend the contest, and the Railway Department has advised that a special train from New Plymouth will be met at Aramoho by a train leaving Wanganui at 1.15 a.m. on Saturday, January 27, arriving at Wellington in the early morning. The return train leaves Wellington on Sunday, January 28, at 8.36 p.m.