General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 202, 27 August 1943, Page 4

General News

Hawera Competitions. Margaret Grant (Turakina) won the final of the sailor’s hornpipe, under 16 years, at the Hawera competitions on Wednesday. Whitebait Plentiful

Some good runs of whitebait have been experienced in the Buller and Rparwaiti Rivers recently. One fisherman in one tide last week netted over 40 pints, which returned him more than £ll. Girls’ College Roll.

It was reported at the monthly meeting of the Wanganui Girls’ College Board of Governors yesterday that the school roll totalled 358. Of this number 118 are boarders.

Incipient Fire. A call to an. incipient fire in Plymouth Street was responded to by the Wanganui Central Fire Brigade at 11.14 a.m. yesterday. The outbreak was extinguished before any damage could be done.

Aramoho War Savings. With only a day and a-half to go, Aramoho still requires £B5 to reach its weekly National Savings quota of £134. If this can be attained the flag will be flying for the 97th successive week.

Rugby Matches. Because of the Patriotic Trotting Meeting on Cook’s Gardens to-morrow there will be no representative match on Spriggens Park, but grade fixtures will be played as usual. The main match to-morrow will be between Pirates and Kaierau. A curtainraiser will be played. Primary Schools’ Rugby. With two wins to their credit and a. victory over Wanganui yesterday in the final by 11 points to nil, Manawatu secured the honours in the Primary Schools’ quadrangular tournament, which concluded at Palmerston North. In the semi-final Taranaki beat Rangitikei by 13 points to nil. Day of Prayer. Shops of New Plymouth will close from 10.45 a.m. till noon on Friday, September 3, to allow members of staffs to attend special services in connection with the national day of prayer, observance of which has been requested by the King. This decision was unanimously arrived at by a meeting of the Retailers’ Association. Winter Not so Har'd. Reports from back-country farmers state that the winter so far has not been, hard on stock, and although there is a shortage of cattle feed in some places sheep are generally in good condition. Lambing is well under way, and despite the cold spell of the past few days it is expected that the percentage of iambs this year will bo good. “Trotting*’ on Cook’s Gardens. Keen interest is being taken in the “trotting” meeting to be held on Cook’s Gardens to-morrow afternoon in support of Miss United Nations for the Popular Girl contest. Providing the -weather is fine it is anticipated that there will be a record attendance on the oval to witness this novel form of racing.

Huge Tomato Plantings Over 1,000,000 tomato plants are being grown at the Ruakura animal research station in connection with the scheme for increasing the acreage of vegetables for the forces, bv which approximately 1000 acres of pasture land in the Waikato has been acquired. In addition to tomatoes, hundreds of thousands of other plants are being sown. Two large st -amheated glasshouses contain each 576 boxes of seedling tomatoes, and as many boxes of celery and cauliflower. Cutside are 18 rows of boxes. 135 in each row, of other plants. Help For Egg Producers.

Authority for the Internal Marketing Department to make advances to producers or producers’ organisations engaged in the production of eggs, egg pulp and egg powder is given in an amendment gazetted to the Marketing Department Advances Order, 1942. This order enables the department to lend money on the security of goods which the department can deal with, the purpose being to foster the production of a particular commodity. Previously such advances ’have been made only to producers of kumaras. Airgraph Service Extension.

As frorp. Wednesday next, the airgraph service would be available for messages addressed to civilians and members of British and Allied forces in Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Nyasaland, Zanzibar, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, Union of South Africa, Mauritius, and Madagascar, said the Postmaster-General (Mr. Webb) last night. The usual charges would apply. An airgraph service from the countries mentioned to New Zealand would also be introduced on Wednesday next.

Withholding of Patriotic Funds. Dissatisfaction with certain provincial patriotic councils which had available funds in hand but were withholding payment of their quotas to the National Patriotic Fund Board was expressed in a remit from the Inglewood sub-branch of the New Ply-

mouth R.S.A., received at. the monthly meeting held in New Plymouth. It was urged, that some form of compulsion he applied to make such councils pay their full quotas out of previous surpluses. The committee decided to forward the remit to the Taranaki Provincial. Patriotic Council. New Zealanders and Syrians. Most of the members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who returned recently on furlough, speak in terms of high praise of the people of Syria, whom they say they found very likeable. Sapper George Cope, of Christchurch, speaking of the great desire of most Syrians to improve their lot, told of the splendid work being done in Syria by two Englishwomen, who opened ah. establishment some years ago for the ’higher education of Syrians. Hundreds of young people have passed through their hands with practically a university education, and have gone out to carry on the work throughout 'the country. “When you get back to New Zealand,” said one o f the women to Sapper Cole, “try and get someone to help us in our work.”