GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 October 1946, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Hurt by ball Slight injuries to the head were received by Mr. L. Mailman in a fall at the Wanganui Railway Station yesterday morning. He was taken to* the Wanganui Hospital by the St. John Free Ambulance and remained there for observation. New Marton Company A new Marton company of builders, building contractors and related incidents is to be launched with a capital of £7500. The company, Mcllwaine (T. and J.), Ltd.. Wellington, has been gazetted, with the following shareholders: T. J. Mcllwaine, Marton, 4000 ord., 1500 pref.; J. Mcllwaine, Marton, 2000 ord. New Scout District Association Two District. Scout Associations now exist in the Wanganui County. They are the Wanganui and Waimarino District Associations. The acting county commissioner, Mr. C. W. Baker, of Wanganui, recently held a meeting of Ohakune, Raetihi and Taihape representatives to form the District Association.

An American Nightmare Apropos of American advice gratuitously given the British on how to run India, Rev. W. M. Ryburn, missionary from that country told the Wanganui Rotary Club members yesterday the story of an American colonel’s nightmare. The colonel came to breakfast in his New Delhi hotel looking pale and haggard, and in answer to inquiries said he had had a terrible nightmare. He had dreamed that the British had suddenly departed from India and left the Americans to run the country. Bible Class Rally.

About 80 members of Presbyterian Bible classes in Wanganui cycled to Foidell on Labour Day for the annual rally, which proved very successful in spite ot the weather. Two meetings were held durihg the day and both were addressed by the Rev. Dr. J. D. Salmond, Youth Director to the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand. He is at present visiting Wanganui for the General Assembly. The Basketball Cup was won by a combined Knox-SL. James team. St. Andrew’s won the seven-a-side tournament.

Taxation An instalment of the combined Social and National Security charge on income other than salary or wages derived during the year ended March 31, 1946, falls due on November 1, and a 10 per cent, penalty will be incurred on amounts not paid within one month of the clue date. Employers who fail to deduct and duly account for wages-iax in respect of ail wageis paid, including amounts paid to casual employees engaged on a time, piecework or contract basis, render themselves liable to severe penalties.

Employment Survey Not many more than half of the employment survey returns distributed by the National Employment Service among employers in the Wanganui district have been completed and returned. Before the reports and statistics can be compiled all these forms must be in, and consequently this work is held up pending the receipt of the outstanding forms. The survey, which is for the period up to October 15, concerns the monthly review of seasonal industry and the sixmonthly survey other industries save farming. The six-monthly survey of all industries is the second ot its kind, but will vary from the first in that it is divided into five classifications instead of seven. The seasonal industries covered by the other survey are freezing works and abattoirs, dairy factories and wool stores.

Plight of China. The inevitable disorder, consequent on the withdrawal of enemy troops throughout a very large area of the most thickly populated parts of China, had brought every kind of evil in its train, said the newly-inducted Moderater of the Presbyterian Church, th? Rt. Rev. H. Davies, at the opening of the General Assembly in Wanganui last night. “Black markets, brigandage and atheistic communism make difficult soil in which to sow the seed of the Gospel. Moreover, the destruction wrought by the enemy is appalling. In the Synod area about 70 per cent, of the former places of worship have been destroyed. But it is to a large extent the scaffolding that has gone—scaffolding erected by the missions as they sought to build the church, the foundations are still there, and our Chinese brethren are setting to work again,” the Moderator added.