General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 266, 10 November 1945, Page 4

General News

Entertainment for Orphans. Children from the Wanganui Orphanage and Margaret Watt Home, with their escorts, will be guests of the Wanganui A. and P. Association to-day at the spring show. In addition, they will be given free rides on the merry-go-round and other devices as a gesture from the proprietors. Horse Killed by Fall While taking part in the maiden hunters’ jumping competition at the Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s spring show early yesterday afternoon, Mr. J. Whitu's five-year-old horse fell and broke its neck. The horse was jumping a hurdle at the time of the accident, but its ownerrider was uninjured. The horse was killed instantly. Disappointment Ahead. A business man from India, who proposes to visit New Zealand before the end of the year to promote the export of goods to his own country, seems doomed to disappointment as far as one line is concerned. According to advice received by the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association he wisher to deal, among other tilings, with prefabricated houses. However, hit interest are wide, including dairy ana canned produce, canning machinery, tallow, soda water, crown tops, beers and wines, so that his visit should not be completely fruitless. Pensions of Clergy. One of the biggest factors in creating isolationism in the dioceses of the Anglican Church in New Zealand is the existence of independent arrangements in the various dioceses for the provision of retiring allowances for the clergy, says the latest issue of the Church Gazette. It states that the situation leads to virtual immobilisation, particularly of the senior clergy, who can move from one diocese to another often only at grave pecuniaryloss. Thus inter-change of personnel and ideas is restricted, with corresponding danger of misunderstandings which undermine the unity of the Church. The recent efforts made by Synod in Auckland to overcome this difficulty were therefore welcome, the aim being to arrange for amalgamation of existing diocesan pension funds into one central fund lor the whole of New Zealand.

Local “Gags” In keeping with the practice of professional shows, the comedians in “Our Miss Gibbs” have used local "gags” to improve the appeal of their lines. There have been some very clever applications of this practice in the current show. In the duet, “Our Farm’ (sung by Thelma Dandy and JameS Mack) opportunity was afforded Jimmie Mack to introduce a cow. and the last line of the song: “And the milk she gave was raw!” had particular appeal to a Wanganui audience. In his number, “Yin I Addy I Ay,” Colin Peffers was able to introduce a very appropriate verse relating to the abbreviated bathing costumes which are allowed in Europe but permitted only in a shop window in Wanganui. Many were the local "gags” applied by visiting professional shows in years gone by, and if was surprising how well known certain Wanganui people were even to artists from London.