GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 25 February 1948, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

School For Waiouru Members of the Wanganui Education Board, at the monthly meeting yesterday, decided to recommend to the Education Department to establish a school at Waiouru, provided a satisfactory building can be obtained. Tennis Visitors, Keen interest is being taken in the visit of the Australian tennis team which will play exhibition matches in Wanganui next Monday. At midday on Monday, following their arrival from Palmerston North, they will be given a welcome by the Mayor, Hon. W. J. Rogers, M.L.C, at the Grand Hotel. School Committee. It was decided at the monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board held yesterday, that Monday, April 26, will be the date for the biennial meetings of householders for the election of school committees. Monday, May 3, will be the day for the election of committees for Intermediate Schools. Historic Paddle Steamer Having been in use for nearly 50 years on the Wanganui River, the Walmarie, a paddle steamer, is now off the slips and awaiting picnic parties. The boat is expected to make her first trip upstream this season about March 13, having been repainted and overhauled. At one time known as the Aotea, the Waimarie is New Zealand’s only side-paddle steamer pioneer still running. Waimarino Fishing With the prolonged dry season, Waimarino streams are at a lower level than anything previously known and fishing returns have shown a pronounced decline on other seasons. Good fish, however, have been taken from the Manganui-o-teao, and from a stretch of the Moawhango Stream adjacent to the Waiouru country 12 fish, of weights between 10J and Tibs, were secured last month by Messrs. Proude, of Raetihi, and Davis, of Tauranga.—(O.C., Raetihi).

Consolidation Opposed The Wanganui Education Board, at its monthly meeting yesterday, had before it a letter from the department asking the board to ascertain the present feelings of parents of pupils attending the Kakatahi School on the question of consolidating with the Otoko Pa Maori School. It was agreed to do as requested. A board member said parents of pupils attending the Kakatahi School were against the consolidation. Meals at Jubilee Home

Indirect complaints were made at a recent meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board regarding meals served at the Jubilee Home, and without previous warning the secretary, Mr. K. Harris, asked for the menu book to be brought to the Wanganui Hospital, where the meeting was being held. The menus were read to the board and the book ins ceded by members. Subsequently, the board expressed its opinion that it was satisfied that the meals provided at. the Jubilee Home were entirely satisfactory.

Cubs and Scouts to Resume Meetings. Instructions newly received by the Wanganui County Scout Commissioner from Dominion headquarters in Wellington permit the resuming of meetings by Cub packs and Boy Scout troops. Mr. C. W. Baker, the County Commissioner, stated yesterday that troops and packs within his area, which included the Waimarino district, would be meeting next week. It was necessary for all scouts and cubs to get in touch with their scoutmasters and cubmasters immediately, he said.

Talk On India. Major Gordon Langslow was the guest speaker at the Wanganui Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting this week. An officer of the Indian Army for nine years, five of which were on active service, he was able to give his hearers first hand information of the many and varied problems which confront India to-day. Major Langslow, who is a member o£ a Wanganui family, was thanked for his informative address by Mr. J. Talboys. Easier Course?

The opinion that too many young married couples made no attempt to adjust their differences before coming to the court, was expressed by the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary, giving judgment in the Supreme Court, Wanganui, yesterday, in a defended case where a young man was seeking restitution of conjugal rights. “If married life does not go as anticipated or expected for the first month or so, young couples make no attempt to adjust their differences,” the Chief Justice commented. “They have divorce in mind because it is comparatively easy and I believe that this has happened in this case.” Sun Bonnets and Cream

Speaking to the National Council of Women in Wanganui on the art of personal appearance, and explaining the objects of a special class on this subject at the Wanganui Girls’ College, the college principal (Miss M. E. Baker, M.A.) said that girls in her day resorted to sun-bonnets and cream to make themselves look attractive. She knew of one girl who had been regularly teased by her family because, by mistake, sh> once used the salad dressing for make-up instead of cream. Miss Baker was contrasting the simplicity of hakeup with the practice today, which she described as being influenced by a battery of propaganda for the sliowy and extravagant, an age of plastered faces and painted toenails and Hollywood films which mislead.