General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 57, 9 March 1946, Page 4

General News

Gorse Fire Beside Railway. Wanganui Fire Brigade was qalled to a gorse fire beside the railway line along London Street at 6.29 p.m. yesterday. The outbreak was extinguished with a lead of hose before any damage was done.

Spinal Meningitis Case A positive case of cerebro-spinal meningitis occurred in the Wanganui County during February, it was reported to yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui County Council. The only other notifiable diseases reported during the month were one case of diphtheria and two of scarlet fever. Band at Virginia Lake. The Queen Alexandra’s Own Band will play at Virginia Lake to-morrow afternoon. This will be the band’s last public appearance before it leaves for the national contests in Christchurch next Friday. At tomorrow’s concert the band will play both contest pieces and the hymn set for competition.

Home of Compassion. The annual street appeal for the Aubert Home of Compassion, Wanganui, will be held on Wednesday next. The Home, which is undenominational in its activity, was established in Wanganui in 1931 and down the years the Sisters have carried on. their works of mercy and charity quietly and unobtrusively. English Brides’ Arrival

Included iA the party of English brides of New Zealand servicemen travelling to the Dominion aboard the Shaw, Savill liner Akaroa are two wives of men from the Wanganui district. They are Mrs. Taylor, wife of Captain F. W. Taylor, 110 Liverpool Street, Wanganui, and Mrs. Pettis, wife of Gunner C. S. Pettis, of Hunterville. The ship was scheduled to arrive at Auckland yesterday.

Railway Picnic Revived. The revival of the railwaymen’s annual upriver picnic will be staged tomorrow when approximately 1000, including railwaymen and their families, will spend the day at Raorikia. The holidaymakers will be conveyed to Hatrick 7 s Wharf by trams which will leave Castlecliff and Wanganui East at 8.20 a.m. to-morrow. The river steamer is scheduled to depart at 9 o’clock. These functions were suspended during the war, prior to which trains were used to transport the people. Coal restrictions, however, do not permit this practice to be continued.

Impounding Wandering Stock. Further efforts to secure permission from the P.W.D. to impound stock wandering on highways are to be made by the Wanganui County Council, following lack of response to earlier representations. The council made this decision yesterday after considering a report from the ranger that the council had not received the desired authority from the P.W.D. to impound stock on highways. “As this is becoming general knowledge, I do not intend taking any action on the highways as it may involve the council and myself in a legal action to which there is no answer at law,” the report commented. Complaints had been received regarding wandering stock on the Kaiwhaike, Raupo and River Roads, but for various reasons it had been impossible to impound the stock. When the owners had been notified the stock had been taken off the roads, the report stated.