General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 225, 22 September 1945, Page 4

General News

Rotary Chib President The speaker at the Wanganui Rotary Club on Monday will be Mr. Harold Wadman, Wellington. He will speak on the projected Cathedral for Wellington. Two-day Cricket.

A matter which will be debated at the annual meeting of the Wanganui Cricket Association on Monday night will be the resumption of two-day cricket in the senior competition. A notice of motion, in the name of Mr. J. Glover, will be tabled at the meeting, advocating this move. One-day cricket matches were introduced as a wartime measure.

Cricket President Retires Mention of the retirement of Mr. J. H. Hayhow, president and official recorder to the Wanganui Cricket Association, is made in the annual report of the Association. Tribute Is paid to and zealous service given to cricket in Wanganui. “As a compiler of cricket statistics, he has had few equals,” adds the report. In acknowledgement of his services, Mr. Hayhow was the guest of the Management Committee earlier in the year at a dinner, when a presentation was made.

Churches’ Conference. Six Wanganui delegates to the recent Council oi Cnrisuan. Congregations conference at Cnristchurcn wili report on discussions at a publ-c meeting next Monday night in the Christ Church Schoolroom. The conference was attended by 200 delegates from all churches with the exception of the Roman Catholic. “It was a live and adventurous conference, features being the marked ability of the speakers and the strong representation of the younger generation,” remarked the Ven. Archdeacon J. R. Young. War Memorial Policy. The policy of the Government concerning war memorials was sought in the House of Representatives on Thursday by Mr. A. Hamilton, member for Wallace, in notice of a question to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. W. E. Parry. Mr. Hamilton asked if there would be a subsidy toward suitable memorials erected by returned servicemen’s associations, local bodies or other organisations. Many organisations were now collecting money for .war memorials, and it would greatly assist if the Government would state a policy regarding permits and subsidy, added Mr. Hamilton in a note to his question.

Priority lor Hospitals. “Would any of that priority include hospital buildings'?” asked the Mayor of Marton, Mr. F. Burnell, when the chief research officer for the Organisation of National Development, Mr. G. N. Calvert, was referring to priority works at the conference yesterday of the Wanganui Regional Planning Council. Hospital buildings had high priority, but it would not be fair to say that they had first priority, Mr. Calvert replied.' That would depend on circumstances. In some regions hospitals were urgently required, but in others such work as hydro-electric development was of great importance. “We cannot very well choose between them,” he added.

N.Z. Founders’ Society. A proposal to form in Wanganui a branch of the New Zealand Founders’ Society w.ll oe discussed at a public meeting to be held next Wednesday afternoon. The society was formed in 1939 to bring together descendants 01 pioneers who landed in New Zealand within 10 years of the founding of the respective province., for the purpose of preserving historical data and records. The prime mover was Mr. Hope Johnston, of London, and the patron is Lord Bledisloe, former Gov-ernor-General. Mr. Justice Johnston is president. Convener of the Wanganui meeting is Mr. E. J. Bourke, senior supervisor of the Post and Telegraph Department, Wanganui.

Several Vessels Expected. During the next lew days several coastal vessels are expected at Wanganui, and because of tneir arrival times coinciding, the port is expected to oe exceptionally busy. Due to-day is the Gale with general cargo from Dunedin, Timaru and Wellington. Afterdischarge at the Town Wharf she sails for Wellington and Dunedin. Also expected to-clay is the steamer Holmlea with a full load of Westport coal for discharge at Castlecliff. An arrival to-morrow is likely to be the a.m.v. Hauturu, with sugar and general cargo from Onehunga, via New Plymouth. On Monday the Storm is due from Lyttelton and Wellington, and the Koutunui is expected to load cheese at Castlecliff for Wellington. Expected arrivals next week are the Holmdale on Tuesday and the Breeze on Wednesday, both from southern ports. On Thursday the motor-ship Kopara. a new vessel owned by the Richardson Line, is expected at Castlecliff to load for Wellington. The Kopara, which will be on her first visit to Wanganui, is coming from Napier direct.

Pool For Expenses Some of the expenses of regional planning councils of the Organisation for National Development are to be paid for from a proposed pool of local bodies, subsidised up to 25 per cent, by the Government, said the chief research officer, Mr. G. N. Calvert, at a conference yesterday of the Wanganui Regional Planning Council, “ft was hoped at the outset that the Government would have covered all the expenses, but th**-/ have. nt.w put forward the alternative that miscellaneous expenses should be met from a pool of the local authorities’ on the council,” said Mr. Calver. Expenses or councils would fall into two categories, the drawing up of proposed schemes and the carrying out of those works, explained Mr. Calver. The costs of drawing up the schemes were to be met by the Government in providing the secretarial services and data from the files of the Land and Survey Department. Miscellaneous expenditure in drawing up the schemes, however, would have to be provided from the local bodies pool subsidised by the Government.