GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 10 May 1948, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

A. and I*. Finances. A balance of £424 Is lOd carried forward for the year’s working, bringing the total assets to £5332, is reported in the annual report of the president of the Wanganui A. and P. Association. Mr. C. J. Masters. Of this sum, £2913 is represented in buildings.

Many People Travelling. With the closing of primary and secondary schools for the first term holidays, railway trains passing through Aramoho and Marton Junction on Friday and Saturday were packed. Service cars also were heavily booked. Bookings for the railways for the next two weeks are reported to be heavy.

Mother's Day. While flowers in buttonholes, the symbol of Mother’s Day, were much in evidence in Wanganui yesterday, when the annual observance was held. Il has been common for all the children of the family to accompany their mother to church on the second Sunday in May, which is the day set for the observance, and reference was made in many Wanganui churches yesterday to Mother’s Day. Appropriate prayers were said, and in many cases the day was made the central point of sermons. Freedom of India. “The Indians were all delighted when on August 15 independence was granted, and they celebrated the occasion with a great deal of enthusiasm,” said Canon A. H. Jackson, a member of the Church of India, who was a week-end visitor to Wanganui. “Many Indians could hardly believe that the British had handed over.’’ Administration would suffer temporarily because so many of the British officials had been forced out or had left, and the Indians were not sufficiently experienced to cany on. There was a Communist tendency in India, but it was of a different brand from that in Europe and was largely an opposition party to th. present political rule.

Week-end Flying. With only two Tiger Moths available, the Wanganui Aero Club had to restrict flying activity during the week-end. Saturday’s ideal weather was made full use of and both aircraft were kept busily engaged throughout the day in training flignts and passenger trips. The club's canopy Tiger Moth was flown to Christchurch early in the week for inspection for its certificate of airworthiness and will be away for several weeks. Tire Percival Proctor is still in Christchurch for annual Inspection and overhaul and is expected to be back in use about the end of the month. During the week-end, several visiting aircraft landed at Wanganui to refuel.

Christianity in India. “The leaders of Indian life realise lhat. strength of character is an essential element for the progress and strength' of the new India,” said Canon A. H. Jackson, a member of the Church of India, who was a weekend visitor to the city. “They see that Christian education in colleges and high schools has been making a useful contribution in that respect. Some H mdu leaders will go so far as to say that they recognise that Christianity makes for soundness of character.” Canon Jackson said that the greatest happening in the church circles in southern India was the coming into being of the United Church of South India, which would be a union of Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational and the Swiff Reformed faiths. Negotiations had been going on for 28 years, and the inaugural meeting had been held last September. The union would embrace an area live tithes the size of England and would contain more than 1,000,000 Christians.