General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 69, 23 March 1942, Page 4

General News

Blackout Time The time for drawing of blind's in i Wanganui to-day is 7 p.m. 1942 Tobacco Crop Most of the labour required for the | tobbacco harvest in the Nelson and | Motueka districts has now been pro- ; vided, and no more men and women ■ are being sent. A few workers from Wanganui in the last few weeks went south for the seasonal work. £6OOO a Week for Prisoners Expenditure on food parcels for New Zealand prisoners of war was £6OOO a week, stated Dr. J. Leslie i Will, chairman of the New Zealand i Joint Council of the Red Cross SoI ciety and the Order of St. John, at a patriotic meeting in Christchurch. Rugby Football Policy The management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union held a meeting last week to formulate a policy for the forthcoming season. As a result arrangements were made for delegates from the union to interview the authorities at the various camps in connection with the services of players. Batsmen’s Aggregate. By reaching double Igures in Wan- ! ganui club cricket on Saturday, W. P. ! Dyhrberg (United) brought his aggregrate of runs for the season to just over 1000 in all games. Last season the same feat, by no means common lin minor associations’ cricket, was • performed by G. S. Nimmo. j Blackout At Wanganui East. Had it not been for a. number of householders who completely ignored the blackout regulations, vvhicn require them to draw their blinds and tc black-out fan-lights, a perfect blackout would have resulted in Wanganui East on Saturday night. This was occasioned by a defect in the street lights in the suburb. Apples in Schools The children of the schools of New Zealand are now consuming apples at the rate of some 13,000 cases a week. The 'lnternal Marketing Department is undertaking the distribution as in previous years and before the season ends the contents of somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 <\ases will have been consumed by the children. i Transfer to Army. Lists are being prepared at the area office, Wanganui, of volunteers lor the Air Force who have not yet been called up and who. under new regulations, are being transferred to the Territorials until they are required by the Air Force. It, was stated on Saturday that these men might be expected 1o be called up at an early date. Test at Imlay Works The New Zealand Refrigeratin,<■, Company’s Imlay Works, Gonville, were evacuated by 440 employee.-, within a minute and a-half when an emergency test was carried out on Saturday morning. The signal to evacuate the premises was sounded on the works whistle, the actual emergency signal being used. On the “all clear” being sounded employees returned to work. Wild Pigs Plentiful Wild pigs are reported to be on the increase in districts upriver, according to a frequent traveller along the River Road. Large mobs can be seen anv day of the week, he stated, and only yesterday 20 were seen on the river bank near the Te Tuhi landing. Farmers in this locality report a great deal of damage by these pests. Petrol restrictions and the shortage of sporting ammunition are thought to be the reason for the increase. | Two Generations of Champions, j Mr. S. London, son of the wellknown veteran, Mr. A. P. London, the most successful winner in. Wanganui for 30 years, and skipper of the Dominion champion rink of 1920, has had a great run since moving to Wellington. Joining the Wellington Bowling Club he won the singles title last year, and the rinks championship and percentage fours as a skip, and the club’s President’s v. Vice-President's I competition. | Reservists Notified to Report. • Notices to report, for medical exam- ! ination have been sent by the area officer, Wanganui, to all reservists in Wanganui to be called for service next week. ' The men are those who have had theii .18th birthday but not their 29th.. regardless of their marital status, and a total of 17,500 is to be called up in the Dominion. Starting to-morrow, 14 boards are to be held, in the morning and at night each day. with an afternoon sitting next Saturday. The, Comet’s Progress Although cloudy skies have rather militated against observations during the past week, sufficient has been seen of the comet to enable the opinion lo be expressed that it is still getting brighter. The comet’s movement and its increase in brightness both seem to be slow, but, under favourable conditions it can just be seen with the naked eye. Unfortunately the comet, is now entering the Milky Way region, which tends to make its detection more difficult. Appeal for Crockery. The W.W.S.A. has arranged for mobile canteens to be in service in an emergency in Wanganui. Caravans have been secured and these will be stationed at convenient points fo? serving food to those who need it. Crockery is, however, badly needed and an 'appeal is made for al’ ■ kinds, particularly cups, even crack’l ed ones. Householders who may be able to give cups or other crockerx , are asked to leave them at thf 1 Women’s Rest, addreked to Mrs. J. J z Scott. I News About Prisoners News in concise form of Now Zea □ land prisoners of war is given in th - tirst issue of the Prisoners of Wa Relatives’ Association News Shoe’ t The object of the association, th . sheet states, is to collect all the ir , formation possible about condition in the various prison camps, thei daily lives, food and clothins r and the work and recreation facil - Lies of prisoners, and to this end e? II tracts from letters from prisoners ai i invited for the pooling of informatioi ;s The first issue conditions a represer ■t tative number of letters from prisoi d ers in the various camps in German y and Italy and from a hospital i