GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 May 1949, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Telegrams to Suchow Telegrams for Suchow, in China, will not be accepted by the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department until! urther notice, the acting-chief postmaster (Mr. H. A. N. Catanach) stated yesterday. Frost Recorded.

A frost of three degrees was recorded at Cook s Gardens yesterday morning. On Saturday morning a frost of nine degrees was registered, tlie minimum temperature falling to 28.1 degrees.

End of School Term Primary schools jn the Wanganui Education Board’s district will end the first term of the 1949 academic year on Friday. The next term will commence on Monday, May 23. Secondary schools will close on the same day for the term vacation. Rugby Sprigs. Mention that Wanganui Rugby referees will be making periodical inspections of players' boots to check sprigs was made at last night’s meeting of the management committee of the Wanganui Rugby Union, by Mr. W. R. McElwain. He said aluminium sprigs were definitely barred. Young Farmers’ Show.

That the district young farmers’ stock competitions would be- held at Ohakune this year was advised at a recent meeting of the Hunterville Young Farmers’ Club by the district secretary. The club will be represented by a senior and junior team. Mr. R. Me Al ley was appointed to represent the club at the leadership week to be held in Palmerston North. Hospital District.

The Wanganui Hospital Board's district had a population of 52,000, said the medical superintendent, Dr. H. L. Widdowson, when replying to a question put to him by counsel at a sitting of the Compensation Court in Wanganui yesterday. Dr. Widdowson, who was one of the medical witnesses called, agreed that all cases of serious industrial accidents in the district would pass through his hands.

Act of Communion "One of the most satisfactory features o£ th® past year’s activities in the parish has been tne high number of Communion figures." This was stated by the vicar, the Rev. J. R. L. Higgs, at the annual meeting of the Christ Church parishioners last night. There were nearly 10.&00 acts of Communion for the year. This figure is probably a record for the parish, it not for the diocese. Of this number 3421 were from All Saints, added the vicar.

"Never Inconvenienced.” '‘This Court is never inconvenienced,’’ said Mr. Justice Ongley when counsel in the Compensation Court, at a sitting in Wanganui yesterday, asked if a medical witness, not then available, could be calUd later in the day. "I hope it will not inconvenience the Court,’’ counsel added. He explained that the doctor had a clinic in the morning and as the case was expected to start later in the day than it usually did. the medical witness had been asked to attend in the afternoon. .

Military Refresher Course. A number of Wanganui Army officers are attending a six-day course of instruction for territorial officers in the Central Military District, which began at the Linton camp yesterday under the command of Brigadier L. W. Andrew, V.C. The course is for officers selected to train for the Territorial Army. ,The following rrtembers of the Wellington-West Coa.-t and Taranaki Regiment are attending the course:—Lieutenant-Colonel C?N Armstrong, Majors J. W. T. Collins, E. F. Laws and I. Webster; Captains J. Hill, L. W. Coughlin, D. G. Young and J. Malcolm (adjutant), and Lieutenant W. S. F. Moffett. Youth for Christ, The Youth for Christ campaign has been in existence for only four years, but in that time the movement has spread to 56 countries. This was revealed by Mr. G. Curie, of Auckland, preacher at the Youth For Chiist campaign, at present, being conducted at. Trinity Methodist. Church. The compaign finds great favour in the United States and the annual rallies at New York and Chicago attracted attendances of 75,000 and 40.000 respectively Mr. E. J. Hoover, chief of the American stated, in New York, that, the Youth For Christ campaign is by far the greatest movement for the combating of juvenile delinquency, added Mr. Curie.