General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 214, 10 September 1945, Page 4

General News

Rotary Club Dinner. The annual dinner and meeting oi the Wanganui Rotary Club will be held in the Savage Club Hall to-night. Messrs G. N. Boulton and L. H. Holland will be the reception committee. Chinese Holidays. Chinese fruit retailers and growers in Wanganui, who have observed a closed holida.y since last Thursday, in acknowledgment of the end of the war with Japan, well reopen to-day for normal business. Baseball (Softball).

!■ or the purpose of reorganising baseball (softball) in Wanganui a meeting of supporters is being held tonight. The Wanganui Association has been granted permission to hold the New Zealand Women s interprovincial tournament -and the women’s club championship for the Dustin Shield. Arrangements are in hand for a baseball week, to be held in Wanganui in February. City Accidents. _ Noel Johnston, a visitor from Hawera, who was playing football on the Intermediate School ground on Saturday afternoon, suffered injurie: {to his left thigh which necessitated ; his removal to the Wanganui Hospital Iby the St. John Free Ambulance. • When she fell at. her home. 37 Kelvin : Street, Aramoho, yesterday. Mrs. : Mosen suffered lacerations to her left 1 knee, which resulted in her being ad- ; nutted to the Wanganui Hospital. State Houses. According to an official of the Wanganui branch of the State Advances 1 Corporation 300 houses have been oc- ' cupied in Wanganui since the State Housing scheme was inaugurated in 1937. There are 56 houses in course of construction or for which contracts have been let. It was impossible to say, the official stated when these would be finished, at labour, materials and fittings al! affected the position. Tennis Competitions. i Tfie view that consideration will have to be given to the resumption of ; club competitions on a full scale by , the incoming committee, is mentioned I in the annual report of the Wanganui ’ Lawn Tennis Club. It states that with j the return of personnel from overseas it should be possible to place the club trophies at stake once again. The report adds that something should be done for junior players, possibly by way of a scheme of organised and systematic coaching.

Wanganui Crowded. Accommodation in Wanganui over the week-end was fully taxed, all hotels and boarding houses having full reservations. The attraction was the first day of the Wanganui Jockey Club’s spring meeting. City-bound trams from the suburbs on Saturday were crowded from 10 a.m. onward, until about 11.30. In the afternoon I the city bore a deserted appearance i until the races were over, when Victoria Avenue became crowded with cars with homeward bound racegoers, i Both before and alter the races city I restaurants were besieged with visitors , in search of meals. i VJ-Day in Lotdon.

Describing celebrations in London on VJ-Day, Sub-Lieutenant H. S. C. Young, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Young, St. Hill Street, Wanganui. in a letter to his parents, said people and troops went wild. Rather than go home at night thousands slept in the parks anti carried their revelry through to (he early hours. In Piccadilly, troops of the United Nations gave national dances, and jubilation was infectious. Sub - Lieutenant Young saw the King and Queen three times, twice on the Palace balcony and once on their way to open Parliament. Telegraph Censorship.

The chief postmaster, Wanganui, Mr D. J. B. Walker, advises that telegraph censorship in New Zealand has now ceased, and the censorship restrictions, which were imposed during the war period are now cancelled. Translation of.code, messages and the payment of the special.fee of Is for such messages are accordingly no longer reouired. As tqlegraph communication has not yet been restored to Austria. Germany, Danzig (free city) Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Japan, including those places .over-run by the Japanese, cablegrams for those countries and places wi 11 not be accepted meantime.