VISITORS TO THE CITY

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

VISITORS TO THE CITY

LATEST ARRIVALS FOSTER’S HOTEL Mr. and Mrs. Lunn, Mrs. Harrison, Mr. R. D. Mathews, Auckland; Mr. C. J. O’Regan, Mr. S. Triester, Mr. A. Lawson, Mr. E. Brown, Mr. P. Hereford, Mr. T. G. Wilkes, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. W. McA. Duncan, Ruanui; Mr. A. Smith, Mr. G. Anderson, Mr. Earl McCready, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull, Mangaweka; Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Williams, Mayala. CRITERION HOTEL Mrs. A. Peters, Hawera; ’Mr. J. Read, Wellington; Mr. D. R. Mummery, Pa<.ierston North; Mr. H. Valentine, Wellington; Mr. J. H. Leadbetter, New Plymouth; Mr. J. K. Connelly, Mr. J. J. Irvin, Dunedin; Mr. D. Freeman, Mr. M. J. Fraser, Dannevirke; Mr. G. K. McClugg, Wellington; Mr. W. H. Coombe, Palmerston North. RUTLAND HOTEL Mr. J. S. Duke, Wellington; Mr. C. Gomer, Hawera; Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Mulligan, Ashburton; Mr. E. R. Foster, Mr. A. Champion, Mr. C. Hughes, Wellington; Mr. L. Tuckett, Mr. F. S. Laycock, Dunedin; Mr. W. Littlewood, Auckland; Mr. R. Parkin, Mr. S. Finch, Wellington. GRAND HOTEL Mr. F. A. Dixon, Stratford; Mr. H. W. Duncan, Wellington; Mr. J. McRae, Te Awamutu; Mr. V. Ross, Auckland; Mr. P. Vaughan, Okoia; Miss A. Arthur, Mrs. T. Brooker, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Sweeny, Gisborne. Need for Wool “It is absurd that we cannot get wool in this, a wool-producing country,” said Mr. J. H. Frater, chairman of the Auckland branch of the Navy League, at the branch’s annual meeting on Monday night. He said the | league could make use of 10 times the i, jantity of wool it could procure on behalf of its lady members, who had undertaken to knit garments for naval men on active service. No Air Force Privileges “There can be no special privileges for members of the Air Force,” remarked Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Otahuhu Magistrate’s Court, when dealing with cases of drinking in the vicinity ot dance halls. He quoted from a letter received from an officer stating that a conviction against a defendant who had since enlisted would affect his prospects in the service. The magistrate said the defendant would have to suffer the same penalty as others convicted of this offence. Nurses at Dunkirk The kindness of the Royal Navy to nurses who were among those evacuated from Dunkirk is told in a letter received in Auckland. “A party of women nurses huddled on the beach in the rain, drenched to the skin,” it says. “At length they were taken on a destroyer and during the night crossing they slept soundly in dry clothes from sheer exhaustion, Next morning they were presented with their uniforms, which had been washed, dried, pressed, and, where necessary, starched by men of the destroyer.” No “As-ifs” Permitted. Speaking to a witness in a Supreme Court case at Wanganui yesterday, in which a claim for damages has arisen from a motor accident, His Honour, Mr. Justice Blair, gave a warding that no “as-ifs” about evidence relating to marks on the road would be listened to. Witness was about to say that a mark looked “as-if” .... when His Honour interposed: "None of tnat ‘as-if’ business here,” he sa>. ‘Describe the mark by all means—how wide it was, how long, where it was, but don’t come along and tell us tnat it looked ‘as-if’ a man’s nose scraping along the sealing of the road caused it. a boot caused it, or anything else caused it. None of your ‘as-ifs’ here.” British Sympathies

“Thank God, the sentiment here is all British, and I sure hope Roosevelt goes back in November. If. Churchill had been in power instead of Chamberlain, this country’s attitude would have been very different two years ago.” This comment on the international situation is made by Dr. Miles R. Hudson, a New Zealander now in practice as a dentist at Berkeley, California, in a letter to a Christchurch friend, states the Press, Dr. Hudson coaches the University of California Rugby team, and the principal object of his letter was to find out the recent developments of the game in this country.