GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 November 1949, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Schoolboy Spectators. Twelve boys from St. George's Pre- i paratory School will attend today’is i meeting of the Waitotara County j Council. They will not be members of a deputation but will be spectators and their attendance will be part ol their education. They will learn how a county council conducts its business. County Meeting. Because its usual meeting day coincides with the first day of the Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association s show, the Wanganui County Council will hold its monthly meeting tomorow. Several members | of the council are associated with the organisation of the show. 22nd Battalion Reunion. Plans are being made now for a re- ! union of members of the 22nd. Bat- > talion of the 2nd. N.Z.E.F., to be held i in Wanganui on November 26. There , are many men living in the Wanganui district, or adjacent to it, who served with that battalion, and most of them are looking forward to renewing wartime friendships. Subsidy on Singlets. < ‘Every time you buy a singlet some of Mr. Holland’s friends are helping to pay for it. That is why they are squealing,” said the Postmaster-Gen-eral (Mr. Hackett) when speaking about subsidies to a Castlecliff audience last night. ‘The National Party would like to see you running arounu in only a singlet,” he added. Twilight Sports. With the first inter-club athletic meeting scheduled for Saturday, November 19, Wanganui athletes ana cyclists are fast gaining form, and each weekly sports meeting sees keen competition. Last night Wanganui’s champion sprinter, Peter Henderson, had a tryout in a few practice runs in preparation for the more serious contests ahead. Southerly Weather. After high temperatures and much humidity at the week-end, a the weather in Wanganui deterioratea rapidly on Sunday evening. Following a stormy night and a marked drop • in temperatures, there was a moderate to fresh southerly gale yesterday morning, accompanied by cold, steady rain. The wind abated to some extent early in the afternoon, but the sky remained grey and overcast. At 4 p.m. the barometer was rising at 29.62in5. At Castlecliff the sea was rough. Telephone Shortage. ‘‘Today we have 35,000 people in New Zealand waiting for telephones because 35,000 more people can afford one,” said the Postmaster-General (Mr. Hackett). A few years ago the P. and T. Department had men going from door to door endeavouring to get people to instal telephones. When someone asked to have the telephone removed, an inspector was sent around to try and persuade the subscriber to keep the telephone installed. Show Exhibit. Under the auspices of the Wanganui Motor Boat Club, an exhibitor of the latest types of speed boats will I be featured in an exhibit at the Wanganui A. and P. show this week. In addition, there will be on view some of the boats of the Wanganui Sailing Club, and craft from the rowing sheds in Wanganui. The exhibit has for its purpose the stimulating of public interest in acquatic sports on the Wanganui River.

A Minority Vote. • “I certainly do not want to go into Parliament on a minority vote. I would like to have all the people with me, said Mr. F. W. Finer, Labour candidate for the Patea electorate when impressing on his audience at Castlecliff last night the need for every elector to record his or her vote at the forthcoming general election. He said that he could talk for a month about the achievements of the Government without coming to an end of them.

Supreme Court. The quarter sessions of the Supreme Court, Wanganui, which opened on October 31 before Mr. Justice Hay are expected to conclude tomorrow, when His Honour will deal with the last of the remaining business. Yesterday, the Court heard applications for further provision out of estates and also dealt with miscellaneous divorce matters. This morning an application for ancillary relief will be taken and there are two divorce matters for tomorrow. From Wanganui His Honour will return to Wellington. A Small World. It is a small world as the passing years can prove and Mr. Gerald Lyon, National candidate for St. Kilda, will agree with this contention. On October 4, 1917, during the battle of Passchendaele, Mr. Lyon carried one of his badly-wounded comrades back from the front line to a first-aid post. So severe were the man’s wounds that Mr. Lyon thought that he would never see him again. He did not see him until more than 32 years later — the other day in fact—when the two men came face to face in the St. Kilda electorate where the wounded man now lives. ‘‘l was thrilled to meet my old comrade again and I am happy that I found him again in my own electorate,” he said. Shipping Delayed. Steady rain during the earlier part of yesterday and a southerly gale which caused rough seas at Castlecliff, delayed shipping at the Port of Wanganui yesterday. Because of the uncertainty of the weather, no labour was engaged for the collier Puriri, which arrived on Saturday with nearly 1000 tons of Greymouth coal. The vessel will begin discharge this morning and is expected to sail tomorrow night on Thursday for Greymouth, where she loads for Nelson, also in port yesterday were the Koutunui, loading produce at Castlecliff, for Wellington and the Hauturu, at the Town Wharf. Both vessels were also delayed by the weather. The Hauturu brought sugar and general cargo from Onehunga, via New PlyI mouth and sails today for Picton. The Koutunui is also expected to sail today.