GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 November 1949, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Red Cross Sends Aid The New Zealand Red Cross Society has sent £2OO to the Philippines Red Cross to aid the typhoon relief. Whooping Cough Case. A three-year-old boy suffering from chronic whooping cough was taken to an altitude of 10,000 feet yesterday in the Wanganui Aero Club’s Proctor by the club’s instructor (Mr. G. A. Delves). This is the fourth case handled by the club in a week, benefit from the high altitude flights being reported in the other cases. Rotary Speaker. “Magic and the Magician" will be the subject of a talk to be given by Mr. L. Levante, of Sydney, at the weekly meeting of the Wanganui Rotary Club today. Last week the attendance was 83.54 per cent. Advice has been received that Dr. W. Gordon (Stratford) District Governor of Rotary, will pay his first official visit to the club on Monday, December 5. Band Concert. Quite a good crowd attended the first municipal concert of the new season presented by the Wanganui Highland Pipe Band at Virginia Lake yesterday afternoon. The band was led by drum major, D. Almond, and pipe major, E. C. Morgan. Eight more concerts will be given at Virginia Lake this summer. At the Wanganui Public Hospital next Sunday the Wanganuj Garrison Band will present a programme of music. Welcome Home. A welcome home on behalf of the City Council and citizens of Wanganui was given to the New Zealand cricketer, H. B. Cave by the Mayor, Hon. W. J. Rogers, at Cook’s Gardens on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Rogers spoke in praise of Harry Cave and the team, and said the city was delighted in the achievements o'f both. Harry Cave suitably replied and said that it was a good tour, a good team, and many people had enjoyed some of the cricket played by the New Zealanders.

Changeable Weather. Changeable weather was experienced in Wanganui during the weekend. Saturday was warm and overcast and several times during the day showers looked like developing into heavy rain. Rain began to fall late in the afternoon and continued through the night. During the 24 hours ended at six o’clock last night, .44 inches of rain was recorded at the New Zealand Friend’s School. Yesterday was fine but cloudy with warm temperatures but the wind turned to the south about mid-afternoon and became strong, the temperature dropping considerably.

Threatening Weather. Th e threatening weather on Saturday afternoon failed to deter a large crowd from attending the Queen Alexandra’s Own Band carnival at Cook’s Gardens. The stalls and merry-go-round were well patronised and competition tickets sold briskly. Most of those present were young children, who thoroughly enjoyed the treats offered by the carnival. The night entertainment was marred by heavy rain, but a larger crowd than expected watched the parade of guys, the lighting of the bonfire and the fireworks display. The carnival was quite a good success, despite the rain, and will probably become an annual affair.

Incipient Tornado. An incipient tornado which developed above the sea to the south-east of Auckland early yesterday afternoon claimed the attention of many persons and caused some consternation amon, those who feared visitation similar to that which struck Hamilton last year. Beginning to reach down from heavyblack clouds at about 1-45 p.m., it hovered like a black inverted cone at about 800 ft. for 15 minutes and was almost stationary and gradually dissipated. At the time the phenomenon appeared, heavy black clouds lay over the area to the southeast of Auckland. The atmosphere wds “heavy" and similar to that usually experienced before a thunderstorm.—(P.A.).

Week-End Flying. The Wanganui Aero Club’s Proctor and a Tiger Moth were flown to Hastings on Saturday for the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club’s birthday pageant. The aircraft returned to Wanganui yesterday afternon. On Saturday afternoon a privately-owned Avro Tutor piloted by Mr D. Frogland, of Hastings, made a brief visit to Wanganui en route to Hawera and landed at Wanganui again yesterday on the return journey to Hastings. On Saturday, the club’s instructor was busily engaged in giving instruction to Air Training Corps cadets. An Air Force Oxford piloted by FlightLieutenant. J. O'Donnell paid a brief visit to Wanganui and then left for Hastings. Food for Britain. Profound disappointment and sorrow at the fact that fewer Christmas food parcels were being sent to Britain from Auckland this year was expressed by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr J. A. C. Allum, on Salurd.%’. He had just returned, with Mrs. Allum, after six months in the United Kingdom and said the food position there wou’d be more thoroughly appreciated when it was realised that the people were better off during the war than they were at present. “It is almost useless just talking about it,” said Mr. Allure. “If New Zealanders could only go there, even for a month, they would want to send every bit of food they had to Britain. Two tilings amazed me. The first was the graiitudo of I he people to whom we gave food paicels. The second was the varied types of people who were glad to get food. They ranged from the poor to very prominent persons."—P.A.