General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 179, 1 August 1940, Page 4

General News

Virginia Lake. Plans of a caretaker's residence to be built at Virginia Lake reserve have been prepared by the city engineer | (Mr. L. F. Row) and quotations are being obtained as to the cost of putting the building up. National Reserve The special Waiganui company of the National Military Reserve now under arms will hold its usual weekly parade to-night. Another all-day parade will be held next Sunday. It is intended to parade also on the Sunday following. Library Members It was reported at the Wanganui City Council meeting by the librarian, Miss A. M. Blackett, that the library has a membership of 3571, compared with 2154 at the same time last year. There are 1749 adult members and 1882 junior members. Assessors Assessors to represent the Wanganui City Council to discuss conditions for an application by the Wanganui Tramway Union for a new agreement are Crs. S. Harris,. R. E. Cuthbertson, and Bennett. The union will be represented by Messrs. W. Brooks, E. Todd, L. Armstrong, and F. Pengally Wrestler’s Daughter Hurt, Earl McCready, the Canadian wrestler who is to appear in a bout at Wanganui to-night, has received by Clipper mail a photograph of his tour-year-old daughter. It shows her with an arm bandaged from elbow to wrist. When putting on a cardigan she accidentally knocked over a basin of boiling water which scalded her severely. She is making a good recovery. Not A.A. Members. Patrols of the Automobile Association (Wanganui) had control oi the parking ot motor-cars at the Rangitikei Hunt Club's point-to-pomi steeplechase meeting near Marton yesterday afternoon. Ot the 152 cars parked, it was noticed that fully 70 did not have an A.A. member’s badge affixed to the windscreen. An observer remarked that compulsory unionism apparently did not apply 111 this instance. Military Pay for Employees. The Wanganui City Council has not yet come to a decisions wUh regard to the rate of pay to be macfe to those of its employees who join the military forces. The council has discussed the question of making a payment to employees in the forces of the difference between, or an allowance on, their pay as members of the forces and the amounts received by them in the employ of the council. It has been thought best, however, to defer decision until information is obtained as to what other similar local bodies are doing. Technical College Concert. This year the public concert staged by the Wanganui Technical College will be entirely in aid of the National Patriotic Fund. The programme is to include a tableau of Empire, in which will be featured songs written by Rudyard Kipling and Sir Edward Elgar. There will be items by the college military band, several classical numbers by the choir, and drill by a squad of cadets. There is to be a one-act play at the end. The concert is to take place on Wednesday night next, in the Opera House.

Wrestler Visits Hospital. The visiting Canadian wrestler Earl McCready, lormer British Empire champion, paid a visit to the Eason Ward at the Wanganui Public Hospital last night, having heard that a youth, who is one of the patients, had expressed a desire to make his acquaintance. The boy, who had frequently followed McCready’s fortunes through the radio descriptions ot wrestling bouts, was delighted to see his hero in the flesh, and the Canadian quickly made himself at home, eventually leaving with an assurance that, even if he could not pay another visit while in Wanganui this week, he would make a point of calling on his protege on his next visit to the city.

Supreme Court Further progress will be made today in the Supreme Court at Wanganui with a civil case which is being heard by His Honour, Mr. Justice Blair, and a jury of 12. The plaintiff, a 22-year-old farm labourer, is claiming £1590 damages for injuries which resulted in his right leg being amputated below the knee. He was riding a motor-cycle on to the Parapara Road last Christmas Day when the accident, in which he alleges negligence on the defendant’s part, occurred. The case was begun yesterday, lasted all day and will be resumed this morning. One other case remains after this one, and will come before His Honour alone, probably this afternoon. It involves a sharemilking agreement. Maxwell Beats Westmere A Westmere correspondent states that there were some inaccuracies in a report of a Rugby football match between Westmere and Maxwell, played on Saturday for the Summerill and Rountree Cup, which, having been held by Westmere for a number ot years, was lifted by Maxwell by three to nil. Westmere, the correspondent states, was represented by a team which was one man short. Although playing only 14 men, the side was beaten by only three points. The Westmere team was L. Trillo, J. Ross, H. Flynn, R. Farley, J. Corliss, E. Nichols, A. Smith, D. Winwood, J. Ross, G. Ross, D. E. Winwood, A. Budge, L. Budge, P. Corliss. Westmere held the cup for the past five years. Horse Terms Not Understood. “While people will always call it the off side or the near side of a- horse, or of a cart, they will never do it with a motor-car,." said His Honour, Mr. Justice Blair, in the Supreme Court at Wanganui yesterday. “Why, I don't know. It would make it so much more simple if they did, but they always say the driver’s side, or the side opposite the driver. If they said port or starboard it would be better.” Mr. C. J. O’Regan, of Wellington, who appeared for the plaintiff, said that he was afraid he would not know what the near or the off side of a horse was. “That is because you are an amateur,” His Honour countered. “The near side of a horse is the side you get on from. You don’t get on from the offside, that is the righty hand side. If you do they laugh at you; you are an amateur.” Mr. O’Regan: I am afraid I must be.”