Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 84, 11 April 1940, Page 4

Town Talk

Basketball Season. The Wanganui basketball season will start on Saturday, April 27, the same day as the opening of the Wan- . ganui Rugby season. Day of Thirteens. ' The day of the Wanganui City Council by-election will be significant not only for the fact that' it is a Saturday. It is the thirteenth day of the month and there wifi be thirteen polling booths. Bleak Weather. Following heavy overnight rain bleak leather was experienced in Wanganui yesterday. A strong westerly wind whipped up a rough sea off Castlecliff, and outdoor conditions generally were unpleasant. There were no shipping movements in port. Library Subscribers. New subscribers to the Wanganui Public Library during March totalled 34, 36 resigned and total subscribers at the end of the month were 720, reported the librarian, Miss A. M. Blackett, to the City Council meeting. The number of books issued was 13,590. Pedestrian Annoyed. A pedestrian called at the “Chronicle” office late last night to express indignation at the way cyclists are using the footpath below the road near Shakespeare’s Cliff. He said that he was bumped twice by unlighted cycles, the riders on both occasions failing to give warning of their approach. Patriotic Committee. The women of Ranana, on the Wanganui River, have decided to form themselves into a women’s patriotic committee to assist soldiers who enlist from the river district and to entertain them when on final leave. Mrs. Tira Kapo is president, and Mrs. R. Metekingi honorary secretary of the committee. During the last war Ranana residents did a lot of patriotic work. Dangerous Car Parking. The Works Committee of the Wanganui City Council has had its attention drawn to the danger to moving traffic caused by motor-cars being parked on either side of Somme Parade, between Guyton and Ingestre Streets. The Mayor (Mr. W. J. Rogers), the city engineer (Mr. L. F. Row) and the chief city traffic inspector (Mr. H. E. Tipper) will inspect the locality and take action if thought necessary. School Cricket. The first eleven of the Wellington Technical College arrived in Wanganui last night and will play their annual match against Wanganui Technical College to-day and to-morrow. To-morrow night the visitors will be entertained at a social at the college. The Wanganui team is: L. Dovi, D. McCarthy, S. Nimmo, A. Paul, D. Blick, R. Goddard, J. Southcombe, N. Nagel, N. Ahern, W. Kilroy, R. Brown and Tomasi Naivalurua. This will be K. Dovi’s last game for Technical, as he leaves next week for Fiji, Juvenile. Subscribers. With a view to providing a subsidy for the juvenile department of the Wanganui Public Library the Wanganui and Waitotara County Councils are to be approached by the City Council. The librarian, Miss A. M. Blackett, reported to the council meeting last night that many applications for free membership to children not resident within the city boundary had been refused. The headmaster of Tawhero School had expressed regret that many of his pupils were outside the boundary and in many cases were not able to pay the 2s 6cl subscription. Lighting of Mt. Stewart Memorial. Provided it be done legally, the permanent floodlighting of the m* -'rial to the pioneers erected at Mount Stewart will probably be undertaken by the Manawatu-Oroua Electric Power Board free of cost. The suggestion that the board should under t.-ke the lighting of the memorial was made to the board on behalf of the contributing bodies by Mr. J. Linklater, chairman of the memorial committee, who agreed with the board’s engineer, Mr. W. A. Waters, that lighting from dusk to midnight would be adequate. The cost to the board was estimated by the engineer at .£7 a year. Wedding in Camp The first wedding to be held in camp was that of Corporal L. M. Wipiti, formerly a well-known New Plymouth Rugby League player now serving in the Maori Battalion, who was married at Palmerston North on Sunday. Being in the Second Echelon, Corporal Wipiti was anxious to marry before going overseas and although he could not secure leave, permission was given for the ceremony to take place in camp. In honour of the occasion there was a guard of honour of several hundred men. Corporal and Mrs. Wipiti came to New Plymouth, Corporal Wipiti returning to camp. Escapees Recaptured. Smart work by the constables on night duty in Palmerston North was responsible for the apprehension, at 2.40 o’clock on Wednesday morning, of two boys, aged 14 and 15, who escaped from the Weraroa Training Farm. Both escaped between 9 and 10 o’clock on Friday night, and, it is i eported, removed a car owned by Mr. J. Welpley, of Levin. On the journey to Palmerston North, it is alleged, I hey siphoned petrol irorn. cars and wrenched a letterbox from the roadside with a view to using it to hold benzine. The car was discovered in Queen Street and the boys were subsequently located in a different part of the city, wearing overcoats stated to have been removed from the car. Painful Journey A painful journey of 20 miles in a motor-lorry after he had both legs broken through being run over by a light railway truck was made by Mr. Norman Godfrey Hone, single, aged 27, before he was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. Mr. Hone, who lives at Wiriwiri, Waiuku, was working in the Moumoukai quarry, 20 miles from Hunua, at about four o’clock in the afternoon when he was knocked down by a light rubble truck, which passed over his legs, fracturing them both. One was broken "in two places, but temporary splints were set by a fellow-workman before Mr, Hone was moved to Hunua. There the lorry, in which he had travelled, was met by a St. John ambulance, and the injured ]man reached the hospital at eight o’clock at night.