General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 14 May 1942, Page 4

General News

Blackout Time. . The time for the drawing of blinds in Wanganui to-day is 5.55 p.m. ( St. John Ambulance Trailer I Permission to park the St. John Ambulance trailer at the Marton j Fire Brigade station was granted at last night’s meeting of the Marton ' Uorougn Council. The trailer is expected to arrive this week. ormer Prime Minister. Last Sunday was the seventeenth anniversary of the death of the Rt. ! -lon. William Ferguson Massey, Prime .Minister of New Zealand from 1912 until his death on Sunday. May 10, -.925. A Fine Effort j The line effort of the children of t lhe Kai Iwi School in contributing i the sum of £l7 toward the Wanganui ' Patriotic Appeal was referred to by j lhe chairman, Mr. H. M. Keesing, at j a meeting ot the executive commiti lee this week. • N.Z. Kugby Union President I The appointment of Mr. J. N. Mill- : ard as president of the New Zealand Rugby Union for 1942 recalls that ; three Wanganui residents have held I that office. They are Dr. G. J. ; Adams, Mr. G. Spriggens, and the ; late Mr. G. 11. Pownall. Feast of the Ascension To-day marks the Feast of the Ascension, the fortieth day after Paster, commemorating Christ's ascension into Heaven, it is one of .the oecumenical festivals of the Christian church, ranking with Christmas, Easter and Pentecost. The festival is of great antiquity. Boys Using Shanghai. Extensive damage was done at three Hamilton schools on Tuesday, when 72 ' panes of glass were smashed, 26 al Hamilton East School, 24 at Hamilton i High School, and 22 at Hamilton i i’ecnnical School. Two boys were seen I using a shanghai al the* Technical School, but tney were not caught.i Press Association. ; Examination of Ballotees ; Up till last, night 23U of the Wanganui men called up in the recent oallot had been medically examined and about 75 per cont. had passed first grade. It is expected that, the examinations will be completed toI day. No advice has been received bv I the military authorities in Wanganui when the men will be required lo enter camp. j Liberty Loan Stickers. I To boost investments in the Liberty | Loan members ol the canteen section of lhe W.W.S.A. distributed window stickers in the city this week. The vvanganui district organiser, Mr. GillicK, yesterday made an appeal to shopkeepers ana office managers, asking i hat the stickers be placed on windows and other prominent places immediately. Bullock Weighs 20001bs. • A Shorthorn bullock stanain> 6ft. 3in. al the shoulder allric'.ed a g- ud (teal of attention in the Te Awamulu district. It was bred by Mr. Lyej Kay, t-arawera, ana its hue weigh, exceeded 2000ib. Estimates ol its dead weight were made oy butchers ana others, the estimates ranging from 11501 b. to 15001 b. Actually the carcase when prepared for exoo.t turned the i scale al 13111 b. I fhe Indrabarali I 11 is 29 years this month since the I indrabarali was beached on the Ran- | gitikei Beach. 'lhe liner went ! aground in dirty weather when ini ward bound to Lhe Wanganui roadstead on the night of May 10, 1913. I Following many attempts the vessel i was successfully refloated early in I July ot the same year. After many years oi valuable service trading under the name of the Port Elliot, the vessel was wrecked near the East Uape, in January, 1924. Rainfall At Bulls. Details of rainfall in the Bulls district have be-'n supplied by Mr. K. W. Dalrymple. Parewanui. East month I.loins, were recorded on 11 days, bringing the total lor the lust ioui months of the year lo 12.06in5., at against 13.58in5. during the same period last yar. Forty-nine days on which rain fell were experienced in the first months of this year, and 38 last year. The average * rainfall for April for lhe past. 40 years is 2.40in5.. (he highest lor any one month being s.BBins. in 1928, and the lowest .86ins. in 1919. Farmers And Home (iuard. In the majority ot cases where appeals on benall of farmers, or men engaged in larming occupations, have been adjourned sine die oy the No. Armed forces Appeal Board, lhe boarc. has directed that the reservists concerned remain in the Home Guard, or, if they are not already members, enro. within a specilied period. When it has been shown that a reservist could ( undertake Territorial training he has ■ been ordered to do so during a certain ! period, usually three niontns of the slack season of the year. Essential Labour. ‘‘That shepherds and other essentiai farm labour, and all mon in essential industries, return to their -original oc- 1 cupations on completion of military training,” was the text of a resolution carried at. the annual meeting recent ly « of the Waimarino branch ol the New . Zealand Farmers' Union. The resold- : tion added that if this policy were j adopted it would be possible to keep : the Dominion's production somewhere ] near maximum. The branch recognis- ( ed that where men showed outstand- ; ing military ability it was of the ut- < most importance that they should be | retained in the Army. ( Appeal board. ; the No. 3 Armed Forces Appeal i Board which sat in Wanganui on cues- « day afternoon, and again yesterday, 1 leit for Taranaki by the afternoon 1 express. The board will sit in Stral- 1 lord to-day and in Hawera to-morrow, i Sittings have been arranged lor New * Plymouth next Wednesday and Thurs- ( day, and further Hawera appeals will ( be heard on Friday of next week. No i dates have been nxed for future sit- 1 tings in Wanganui. The board has s jurisdiction over a wide district ana at present is engaged principally on review of appeals where sine die adjournments had previously been granted. Suggestion To Appellant. A suggestion tnat many retired farmers might be willing, as a war / effort, to look after a farm such as this, and release an able-bodied man j. for military service, was made by Mr. | T. R. Lees (Palmerston North), a member of the No. 3 Armed f orces f Appeal Board, when a farmer appellant appeared before the board in t Wanganui yesterday. Mr. Lees said he thought the production was not , sufficiently high to warrant a youngei j man being retained on the place. An p elderly farmer who had retired might oe only too glad of an opportunity ol a doing something for the duration ol tne war. Boxing Contest Recalled t Among a pile of -old pictorial photos From an illustrated journal s sent to the waste-paper depot in o Wanganui recently was a picture of the famous Tommy Burns-Jack John- d son encounter at Rushcutters’ Bay, Sydney, on Boxing Day, 1903, whe.i ; J Johnson won the world title. The! light was promoted by tn? Laie Hugn i D. ?vlackintosh and was lor a pui.su | of £5OOO, which was a huge sum in j /, those days. A boxer who looked l , v after the financial side of his career, f Burns has been living in retirement these many years. Johnson, who is p now 65 years of age, lives in Salt Lake City, U.S.A. ' a