General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 28, 4 February 1943, Page 4

General News

Infections Diseases. Two cases of infectious diseases were notified in Wanganui last month. Five cases were notified in January of last year.

Drivers’ Licences. In January, 75 drivers' licences were issued by the Wanganui.City Council. Fees amounted to £lBlss. Five heavy traffic licences were issued during the same period, and the fees collected totalled £27 9s Bd.

Plunket Oranges. The Wanganui Plunket Society advises thrjr the local quota of oranges has arrived and will be available at the city rooms, Wanganui East and Gonville to-day and to-morrow. They will also be available at the Aramoho rooms to-morrow afternoon. Building Returns. Building permits to the value of £9O were issued by the Wanganui City Council last month. The low figure is accounted for by the restriction on building other than defence undertakings. In January, 1942, permits to a value of £14,305 were issued. This total included a number of Government houses. Transport Authority.

The No. 2 Transport Licensing Authority (Mr. J. P. o. Skoglund), which sat in Wanganui yesterday, was in Palmerston North earlier in the week and )<!1 sit in Stratford to-dav. In Wanganui the Authority dealt with amendments to passenger licences, transfer of goods services licences, and other applications. Castlecliff Bathhouse.

With the resumption of schools, the Wanganui City Council has decided that there is no justification for keeping the bathhouse at Castlecliff open as has been done during the early part of the season. It has been decided that the premises be open for. public admisison on Saturday and Sundays only. Technical College.

An increase of more than 100 pupils compared with the opening of the school term in 1942 is reported at the Wanganui Technical College. It was stated yesterday that the school roll is approximately 590. Of this number 400 are boys and 190 girls. New entrants numbered 280, as against 230 for February last vear. The number of pupils in residence at the hostel is 70, as against 46 last vear.

Swimmer in Hospital During a backstroke race at the national swimming championships at Hamilton last week, Miss Helen Workman, a member of the Wanganui representative team, suffered an attack of abdominal pains just before the finish and reached the edge of the baths with difficulty, then collapsing. She was treated by members of the St. John Ambulance and was removed to the Waikato Hospital. Inquiries later at the hospital revealed that Miss Workman’s condition was such that permission for her removal to her home in Wanganui could not be granted for at least a week. Woman’s Windfall!

The Pahjatua Racing Club’s meeting on Otaki racecourse on Saturday provided many surprises tor punters while its success came as no surprise to its promoters Their portion of surprise came when a woman having backed Ngamatea for a place wronglypresented her ticket and collected on a straight out win, with the result that she left the totalisator house 10 times richer than she had hoped to be. As Ngamatea's dividend climbed well into the second century, the woman’s purse nad a bulge that was surprising and the club officials now trust that she will call and rectify the mistake. Re<l Cross Appreciated. “I don’t know what we would do for the men without the aid of the Joint Council of the Red Cross and St. John in the Dominion,” stated a New Zealand Army nursing sister in a letter to the secretary of the War Purposes Committee, Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society, Wellington. The letter was written from a medical unit as the Eighth Army was advancing in the desert, and added: “Till you get in a place like this you can’t realise just what is being done, and how it is going where most needed. It shows a great deal of thought and planning and good administration. Registration of Motor-cars

The Postmaster - General, the Hon. P. C. Wenb, announced that at December 31, last, 286,088 motor-veh-icles had been licensed for the current year. This represents a decrease of 13,597, or 4.53 per cent., compared with the number licensed at the corresponding date in 1941. The number of cars licensed, viz., 189,309, represents a decrease of 17,802, or 8.59 per cent., compared with the number licensed as at December 31, 1941. Commercial vehicle licences, 81,347, increased by 4381, or 5.69. Licences for motor-cycles, 15,432, show a decrease of 176, or 5.69 1-12 per cent.— Press Association.