Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 86, 13 April 1940, Page 6

Town Talk

Band Concert. The Wellington West Coast Regimental Band, under the conductorship of Mr. A. Ramsay, will play at Virginia Lake to-morrow at 3 p.m. Loan to Government. A decision to offer £25 an interest free loan to the Government for the duration of the war was made at the annual meeting of the Wanganui National Dancing Society. Cricketers Entertained. Members of the Wellington Techni- ! cal College cricket team, which is i visiting Wanganui, were guests of the ■ Technical College at a social neld at ! the school last night. The visitors will return to Wellington 10-day. Motion of Sympathy. The Wanganui County Council yesterday carried a motion of sympathy with the Government in the death ol ! ihe former Prime Minister, Rt. Hon :M. J. Savage, and also decided t( ' congratulate the Prime Minister, Hon ; P. Fraser, on having been appointed Motorist Injured. Injuries which necessitated his re iTioval to the Wanganui Hospital wer< suffered by Mr. T. Broadbent, Hunter ville, when his motor-cycle went ove. a bank. He was brought to Wanganu in the St John Free Ambulance. Hi. condition was reported as comfortabh last night. Slips ( leared. It was reported at the Wanganu County Council meeting yestciday thai all slips on the Upper \v angnehu Roac had been removed, and th.fc metal repairs would be started immediately On the Field's Track slips had been removed and the road had been widened at various places where under slips had occurred. Metal repair would oe started immediately. limings Victory. An innings was the margin by which Wanganui Technical College beat Wellington Technical College in the annual cricket match which enaed on Cook’s Gardens yesterday. Wellington made 87 and 83, and Wanganui 182 and 116 for four wickets. A feature of Wanganui's second innings was a whirlwind 72 by Dovi, captain. Dovi, in half an hour, had scored 72, induing two sixes on top of the terraces and eight fours. D. McCarthy was the most successful Wanganui bowler i>i the visitors’ second inningo, taking three wickets and* nine runs. Golfers’ Appeal. Golfers will be provided with an opportunity to assist in (he Fighting Services Welfare Appeal by supporting the tournaments to be held at the Belmont links to-day and on Wednesday next. This afternoon the Wanganui Golf Club will hold a Stableford bogey match, and the gross entry fees will be forwarded, with other moneys collected, to the New Zealand Golf Council as a contribution to the fund. The Wanganui Ladies' Golf Club will hold an all-day tournament next Wednesday, and already generous support has been promised for this effort.

ThiMtre Managers Conifer. The first provincial conference of picture theatre managers of Theatre Management, Ltd., was held in Palmerston North this week. Those attending the conference comprised Mr. R. J. Kerridge (director) and Messrs. \V. M. Maxwell, T. L. Craigie, A. C. Davis, jun. (all of Palmerston North), C. Ashford (Wanganui), W. Tait (Wanganui), A. Tong (Hastings), N. Thacker (Hastings), W. Reid (Napier), P. Quinn (Napier), A. Grant (Masterton), H. Fry (Dannevirke), S. Cottier (Pahiatua), C. Smith (Dannevirke), C. Brittenden (Stratford), and J. Horton (Hawera). Waterside Workers. Officers elected at the annual meeting of the Wanganui Waterside Workers’ Union were: President, Mr. F. W. Gould; vice-president, Mr. H. Beynon; secretary, Mr. J. Robertson; executive, Messrs. J. McDonald, W. Limm, A. Graham, H Sexton; delegates to L.R.C., Messrs. D. Dwyer. L. McDonald, J. Robertson; delegates to Trades Union Council, Mr. F. W. Gould. Reference was made by the president to the death of the former Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, and a motion of sympathy with the Government was passed. It was also decided to forward congratulations to the Prime Minister, Hon. P. Fraser, on this appointment. Road Improvement. The construction of a new road for the purpose of deviating tne Ktawhaike Bluff is well under way anci will be finished this month, stated the report of Mr. R. R. Dawson, engineer, at the monthly meeting of the Wangainui County Council yesterday. Surface I repairs had been made oy grading me i Hooded portion of the road and surfacing with pumice. The Long Acre Road had been re-snaped by tne jgrader and was in fair condition. On !the No. 3 Line Extension, fight metal repairs had been made, and lurlner metalling would be continued. Metai repairs would be made on the Concord and Warrengate Roads as as possible. A Soldier’s Garden.

Two men knocked at the house door of a New Plymouth woman whose returned soldier husband had again” enlisted and gone overseas. The men asked if there was any work beyond her capabilities that needed attention on the section or about the house. When it was pointed out that the garden had become sadly neglected and the hedges needed cutting, the men set to work, putting in several hours of hard manual labour and leaving the place neat, even to the burning of hedge clippings and destruction of weeds The occupier of the home inquired about payment, but the men replied that they also were returned men and were glad to have been of assistance. Dancing Society. The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Wanganui Dancing Society, held on Thursday: Patron, Mr. C. G. R,ussell; president, Mr. H. C. Hawke; vice-presi-dents, Messrs. J. B. F. Cottex Hl, M.P., G. E. Ironside, J. Bryficne, Russell Grace, A. Ralph, J. Byres, A. Lockett, A. P. Tonks, G. Duncan, Misses G Tonkins, J. Peters; trustees, Messrs. Hawke and Ironside; secretary, Mr. P. C. Smith; treasurer, Mr. Le Cc-mpte; auditor, Mr. C. McCallum: executive committee, Messrs. Hawke, Le Compte, Tonks, Byres, Smith, Miss M. Swan, Mesdames A. Ralph, A. E. May, and F. V. Byres; conveners or social committee, Mesdames Ralph, May, 11. C. Hawke, Byres, A. Lockett, T. W. (Cooper Misses M. Swan and G. Ton*kins.