General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 94, 23 April 1942, Page 4

General News

The “Chronicle" will not be published on Saturday (Anzac Dayi. Blackout Time. The time lor the drawing of blinds | in Wanganui to-day is 6.20 p.m. ' Police Station at Ohakea. i A police station is to be established •; at Ohakea, and Constable D. D. ■ Crawford is to be transferred there > from Auckland. Outsize in Pumpkins. ; Turning the scale at 1091b5., a • pumpkin is being exhibited at Mangai mahu. It was grown by Mr. B. Arcner, |of Mangamahu, and was brought to I the township to be weighed. 1 Fire At Girls’ College. ! A call to the Wanganui Girls' Coli ’ege was received by the Central Fire ; Brigade yesterday afternoon. A lire i had broken out in a storeroom, but it i was quelled before any serious dam- ■ age could be done. 'Street Lights Being Shaded. ; New drum-type shades, about a foot deep, are being affixed to the existing [shades of street lights in Wanganui. |A start with this work was made in i Somme Parade yesterday. The shades, which were in use last night. ■ throw a circle of light about 15 leet 'in diameter. [ Soccer Trophies. • The Wanganui Foothall Associai lion’s shield and cup were won by { Technical Old Boys last season an I ' the Charity Cup v.ent to the Rangers, ' it was reported at the annual meelI ing of the association. In the junior ■ grade. Technical Col i ego B team i was the winner of the competition I and the Woodham Cup. ' Anzac Day Observance. { On Saturday (Anzac wo; > 311 train I services in the New Flymen h-Wan- [ ganui-Marton-Main Trunk areas will ibe suspended with the exception of (he Main Trunk expresses 'including lhe Limiteds), between Auckland and Wellington. The Wanganui Chief Post Office will observe Anzac Day as a Sunday. Show Competitions. A decision to airange the New Zealand Chilled Eeel Championship, and the district fat lamb competition this year, whether the spring snow is held or not, was reached yesterday by the vvanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association at its annual meeting. Details of the competition will be decided by the management committee in the near future. St. George's Day. To-day is tne feast day of St. George, the patron saint oi England. Born of an illustrious lamijy in Cappadocia, St. George was promoted uy lhe Roman EnSeror, Diocietian to the first rank ol tne army. When lhe Emperor had published at Nicomedia his lirst edict against the Christians, he was rebuked by St. George, immediately cast into prison, St. George was subjected to such torments mat lhe Eastern Church calls him the Great Martyr. He was beheaded in 273. Aluminium. Thirty years ago, writO a correspondent, a worthy business man, well known in Wanganui and Palmerston North, published a booklet in which he condemned aluminium, a newly discovered metai, as an insidious poison, and urged his many friends to retrain from using it as a cooking utensil. More than a hundred residents, including three medical men, agreed to bury their recently acquired and costly kettles, pots and pans deep down in their back yards. Burien treasures may yet be discovered by trench diggers. Credit of £3OO. The Wanganui Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union had a net credit balance of about £3OO, reported the chairman of lhe Finance Committee, Mr. C. Smith, 'at the executive’s monthly meeting 1 yesterday. Funds in the Bank of New I Zealand stood at £47, cash in hand ■ amounted to £5B. and £207 had been i deposited in the Post Oilice Saving. . Bank. The executive had also invest- ! ed £lOO in National Savings, the total i credit being £406 7s Bd. As £lOO was ■ held to the credit of branches, the I net balance was about £3OO, Mr. Smith added. I Wrapped in Newspaper. I Gone are the days when one could be genteel, always supposing one i wanted to. In the piping days oi | peace, a parcel wrapped in newspaper would have looked 100 much like lish and chips for words. It. just wasn't done! But nowadays we take what we can get, in the way of wrapping paper, and judging by the news that housewives may soon be carrying their meat home in basins, we shan’t be getting much. However, at least one Auckland woman has got down to the problem without any fuss. She was seen recently posting a large parcel wrapped in newspaper. All tied up nicely and neatly, with as much care as if it were brown paper. Women Conductors. Employment of women conductor-: was one of the questions discussed at a meeting last week of the Wanganui City Council’s Tramway Committee, when it was slated that the proposed rates of pay should not be less than those provided lor men employed in a similar capacity. The committee reported also, at a recent meeting of the council, that it wished to record, on the report of lhe chairman (Cr. S. J. Harris), that the principle of equal rates of pay for men and women i conductors had been accepted at a conference in Wellington. No indication was given as to whether women . conductors would be employed on the Wanganui Corporation Tramways. i Trench Digging. At. those schools which have been declared as in vulnerable areas, ar-

rangements have been made for the committees to proceed with construction of slit trenches, reported Mr. E. R. Hodge, architect, at the Wanganui Education Board’s monthly meeting. The schools within this category arc Bulls, Ohakea, Sanson, Milson’s Line. Foxton, Terrace End. Russell Street, Hokowhitu. College Street, West End and Palmerston North Central. At many of these schools the excavation work has already been proceeded with and all that remains to be done is the raising of the parapet to bring the trenches in conformity with the construction suggested by the Department. Farmers’ Conference. “They have decided lo hold the conference, and it is up to us to see that there is a good attendance," commented the president of the Wanganu Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr. T. Currie Brunswick, when advicethat the interprovincial conference would be held at Palmerston North on May 28 was received by the executive at its monthly meeting yesterday. A circular lettei from union headquarters in Wellington stated that the central qxecutivt was of the opinion that a one-day conference should be held in spite of the war. It was hoped to make the conference as constructive and as useful as possible. Mr. Currie commented that at least three remiti would go forward from Wanganui One concerned Home Guard expenses another the 121 per cent, increase ir railroad freights, and the third dealt with the question of purchasing lane for returned soldiers.