General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 163, 16 July 1946, Page 4

General News

Youth Injured. When he met with an accident on a farm at Waitotara yesterday afternoon. a youth, A. Hutchins, of 45 Boyd field Avenue, received a suspected fractured pelvis. He was taken to the Wanganui General Hospital by the St. John Free Ambulance. Two-hour Power Failure. A two-hour blackout of electric power occupied in Wanganui in the early hours of yesterday morning through a breakdown of a transformer at the Okoia sub-station. Power went off at 2 a.m. and was resumed at 4 a.m., when another transformer was cut in.

Turakina Deviation A 50 k.v.a. 6600-volt transformer, supplied by the Works Department, had been erected at the northern portal of the Denlaic railway tunnel to supply power for construction work, stated the engineer, Mr. H. Webb, in his monthly report to the WanganuiRangitikei Power Board. He was referring to the Turakina-Okoia deviation.

Steam Plant Closed The Wanganui-Rangitikei Power Board’s steam plant operated up to June 14, when coal stocks were exhausted, stated the engineer, Mr. H. Webb, at the board's monthly meeting yesterday. No coal had been received since that date and no definite information could be obtained regarding future supplies. Mor? Food For Britain. “We should congratulate the Rotary Club on its efforts,” said the chairman, Mr. E. A. Millward, when a request for remission of wharfage charges on food shipped to Britain was received by the x.anganui Harbour Board at its monthly meeting yesterday. A letter from tne Rotary Club stated that members had forwarded more than two tons of food from Wanganuj recently. The packages were shipped z by the coastal steamer Holmlea, and at Wellington were transferred to an overseas vessel loading for the United Kingdom. Wharfage charges amounted to Bs. The board agreed to the request. Harbour Depths. Maximum depths of water available at the entrance last mo*ith were 21ft. on June 7, and 19ft. 6ins. on June 20, stated the harbour master, Captain R. D. Stewart, in his report to the Wanganui Harbour Board, received at the monthly meeting yesterday. These soundings were taken at high water, spring tides. Maximum, neap tide depth.-; at the entrance were 18ft. and 16ft. 6'ns. Other soundings at high water were (spring and neap tides in that order): Mole ends -io Castlecliff Wharf, 19ft. 3ins., 13. T. “Ins.; Castlecliff to Town Wharf. 12ft. 9ins., 10ft. 6ins.; Town Wharf, 13ft., 10ft. 9in. Power Board Revenue Revenue from meter readings in June amounted to £12,732, or £590 better than the return for the corresponding period in 1945, stated the secretary, Mr. G. A. Ammundsen, at! the monthly meeting of the Wanganui- ; Rangitikei Power Board. “It was ' during this period last year that a special emergency caused the most severe restrictions in the use of power to be enforced, and though restrictions have continued necessary, the controller’s practice of allocating district requirements against the highest consumption of the corresponding period of the last three years has permitted the more favourable comparison in income figures this year,” the secretary added. “In spite of restrictions imnosed, our consumption is still a litle above the units allocated.” Street-lighting Charges. A small committee from the Wan-ganui-Rangitikei Power Board is to meet representatives of the Wanganui City Council to discuss the question of adjusting charges for street lighting in view ci power restrictions. This ' was decided on at the board’s monthly meeting yesterday, the suggestion being made by the Hon. W. J. Rogers, M.L.C. Mr. W. Morrison (Maxwell) commented I hat the City Council was not the only local body effected. Mr Regers: “The others can for themselves.” The street lignts were off only on moonlight nights and after midnight, said the engineer, Mr. H. Webb, “up to the present time the restrictions have hit the board more than anybody else,” Mr. Webb added. Mr. Rogers: “The consumer only pays fo? what he gets, and that is ail we are asking.” A Popular Secretary. Increasing interest, in annual reunions of the 11th Company of the National Military Reserve in Wanganui has thrown a great deal of responsibility on the shoulders of the honorary secretary of the reunion committee, Mr. F. A. Beattie, Aramoho. Special Tributes were paid to Mr. Beattie at the annual reunion on Saturday night for the wav in which he has kept trace of the various members. Responding to a toast in his honour, Mr. Beattie said that ho would continue to act in the capacity so long as the members • anted him to, and he got a great deal of pleasure from seeing the reunions take place year after yea He urged members who changed their addresses to let him know, and in view of the fact that members' sons who served overseas are to be guests at the next, reunion, he asked that the addresses of those sons be forwarded to him at the appropriate time.