GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 March 1947, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

What’s In A Name? This week's Gazette contains a notice of change of surname by deeppoll—from Wheeler to Smith. The Christian names of the person concerned remain unaltered. No Hot Cross Buns for Easter There will be a few chocolate Easter eggs but no hot cross buns available for Easter this year. Shortage of sugar and drie’d fruit are among the main reasons why hot cross .nuns will not be on the market. The KiEies are Here! Foretaste of things to come was given Wanganui yesterday afternoon, when two pipe bands paraded the streets on their arrival. The Timaru Band marched the greater part of the Avenue, while the Temuka Band marched from the Railway Station to Victoria Avenue, and thence into Ridgway Street. Appreciation of the display was shown by the large number ~uf people that gathered to look and listen. Cement and Steel Short “Our stocks of reinforcing steel and cement are dangerous# low and unless replenished soon the plant will have to close down,” said the engineer, Mr. S. A. R. Mair, reporting on the Utiku pipeworks at the monthly meeting yesterday of the Rangitikei County Council. It was understood that the cement was delayed by a shortage of transport wagons, but there was a full stock at the cement mills. With the materials available, however, the plant at Utiku had worked steadily, concrete pipes and posts being supplied. Use for Old Rail Route For some time the question of what should be done with the existing railroad route from Turakina to Wangaehu, after the new deviation to Okoia is completed, has been considered by the Rangitikei County Council, one proposal oeing that it should be formed into a road. At the monthly meeting in Marton yesterday the engineer, Mr. S. A. R. Mair, saia that a meeting of Ratana settlers interested in converting the present railway into a traffic road was held at Turakina recently. It was decided to hold the matter over, however, till the’ new f route for the State highway was definitely decided on.

Bulls R.S.A. ‘‘Adopts” Welsh Town. A unanimous decision to support the New Zealand Returned Servicemen’s Association “Foor for Britain” campaign, was made at a meeting of the Bulls District R.S.A. executive this week, which was attended by representatives from Bulls, Sanson and Turakina branches. Advice was received from the Dominion executive that Ferndale, a town in Wales, had been allocated to Bulls and the first It) parcels will be forwarded shortly to the British Legion representative in Ferndale. Next month the Bulls executive hopes to post the parcels direct to the most needy ex-servicemen families. It has been decided to set aside xSU for parcels to be spread over the next six months, after which the position will then be reviewed.

Parikino Sports The ground on which the Parikino Sports Committee is to hold its sports meeting on Saturday of next week (March 15) has something historical about it, in that it was the nrst ground in New Zealand on which the 1930 Union team from Britain had a run when in New Zealand. The team landed at Auckland and came straight down to Wanganui. It was taken for a run upriver on the first Sunday spent in the country and the players selected.- to play in the first match of the tour, the following Wednesday, had a short run at Parikino against a scratch side of Maoris and pakehas. That day at Parikino was regarded by most members of the British team as the best spent in New Zealand, where the players met the Maori in his native surroundings.

Strange Scholarship. When the Rev. James Henry, of Invercargill, died on December 14, 1919, he left under his will a trust fund to provide a scholarship, to be’known as the James Henry Scholarship, for students entering the University of Otago. Each scholarship was to be tenable for a period of three years, and to be worth £4O annually. Among the conditions is an unusual clause stating that “a first preference among applicants shall be given to one bearing the surname of Henry, Hendry, or Beverley,” but the main condition is that “th e scholarship may be accepted from persons of either sex who were not more than 19 years of age on the first day of December immediately preceding the date of the ward, and whose homes during the two years immediately preceding the date of application were in the Wyndham, Toetoes, or Waikawa survey district.” The first application has only been made this year. The first applicant does not have one of the favoured surnames, but is qualiiied under the residential and educational clauses.