GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 December 1948, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Customs Revenue. Customs revenue collected from ah sources in Wanganui last month totalled £2B,9B7—customs £16.743, sales tax £3057, petrol £8272, miscellaneous £l5.

Athletes to Visit Wellington Fifty ath.etes and cyclists from the Wanganui Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club will visit Wellington on Saturday to compete in inter-club races with members of the Wel.ington Athletic Club. A number of Christchurch athletes will also be appearing at the same meeting. A return meeting will be held in Wanganui later in the season. The club’s first open sports meeting of the present season will be held on January 8 in conjunction with an ail-day Caledonian sports. insufficient Support? Consideration had been given to a suggestion that another display of locally manufactured goods should be made during the February carnival in the city, stated lhe president of the Wanganui branch of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association, Mr. E. L. Healy, at the annual meeting last night. From inquiries made, however, the Executive Committee considered that this year such a display would not receive lull support, and that it should be postponed for a further year at least, Mr. Healy added. Sheep Industry Commission Members of the Koya. Commission on the sheep Industry were scheduled to inspect a number of farming areas up the Wanganui River yesterday, including the suggested extension of Lhe Makakaho Valley Road through to Pipiriki to join up with the present Pipiriki-Raetihi Road. Today the Commission will visit farms in the Raetihi area, and tomorrow they will visit Mr. A. S. Ashmore’s farm where he has been carrying out experiments with earthworms for a number of years. Tonight the Commission win hold a sitting in Taihape. Rotary Club Thanked. Two letter were read at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Rotary Club acknowledging the club’s hospitality to visitors. One was from Mr. P. H. B. Lyon, a former headmaster of Rugoy School, who addressed the club the previous week, and the other was from the headmaster of Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, expressing appreciation of the wav the club entertained Duncan Moir, who came out to New Zealand on an “Otaki” Scholarship earlier in the year. Mr. Moir is now back in Aberdeen, and studying at the University there. More CoaJ Expected. The coastal steamer Holmlea, at present discharging West Coast coal at Castlecliff, is expected to complete unloading today and return to Greymouth. She will load there again for Wanganui and will be making her third successive trip to the port. If this schedule is not altered, the vessel will have discharged about 1800 tons of coal at Wanganui by early next week. The Holmlea was at Wanganui last week and returned to Greymouth for a further load, arriving back at the week-end. She began to discharge on Monday, but was delayed by rain. Mowhanau Post Office Change of name of Kai Iwi Beach Post Office to Mowhanau by the New Zealand Geographic Board is officially announced in the latest issue of the New Zealand Gazette. Intimation that the name of Kai Iwi Beach had been changed to Mowhanau by the Geographic Board was received recently by the Waitotara County Council, but it will be some time before the old name of the beach falls into disuse. The change of the name of the Wangaehu railway station, river, etc., to Whangaehu is also oflicially announced. When the OkoiaTurakina railway deviation was opened last December the name Whangaehu was painted on the station and was accepted bv many people as an error in spelling. Sudden Change. Wanganui experienced a sudden change in the weather yesterday which resulted in almost tropical downpours during the morning and caught many people out of doors without raincoats. At daybreak the sky was comparatively clear after a succession of fine days, but soon after sunrise the wind freshened from a northerly quarter and soon became very gusty. The change was followed bv a period of heavy showers, but by midday the wind had veered to the west and the sky had cleared. During the afternoon there was continual sunshine and a westerly gale which caused rough seas at Castlecliff. At 4 p.m. the barometer was steady at 29.60 in.