GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 6 September 1950, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Girls’ College To Re-open The Wanganui Girls’6 College will resume classes for the third term on Monday, September 11. The school ended the second term on Friday, August 18. Telegrams For Canada Telegrams are now being accepted by the New Zealand Post Office for all offices in Canada. Seif/ices were cancelled for more than a week during the strike of the Canadian Inland telegraph system, which has ended. Public Telephones. The sum of £111,939 was collected from public coin-in-the-slot ’ telephones in New Zealand during the year March 31 1950, states the annual report of the Post and Telegraph. Department. At that date there were 1726 such telephones in New Zealand. Calls to Fires. Calls to two minor outbreaks of fire were responded to by the Wanganui Central Fire Brigade’yesterday. The first call was received at 4.49 p.m. to an incipient fire in a residence in Kaikokopu Road, and the second was to the Great North Road, where a power pole had caught alight. Both were extinguished with bucket pumps. Big Tree Felled A huge pinus insignis tree, estimated to be about 80 years old, was recently felled on the property of Mr. A. P. Howard, “Westoe,” Greatford, Marton. The tree measured 16 feet in girth near the stump and was 100 ft. high. The trunk was hand-sawn into lengths and carted to a Marton sawmill where it produced 7000 ft. of sawn timber and cords of slab mill wood. The limbs produced 11 cords of firewood and 70 large sacks of cones. — (0.C.) Bread And Slimming “Every baker hates to hear the old plaint, ‘Bread is so fattening’,” says the Australian Bakers and Millers’ Journal. “Every kind of food is fattening if you take too much of it, but bread actually is one of the least fattening types. The fact that people on extremely rigid medical diets, calculated down to the last calory a day, are nowadays advised to eat bread in quantities up to 12oz. and even more a day is ample demonstration of the truth of the paradoxical advice, ‘Slim by eating bread’.” County Valuations Comparatively few Rangitikei County residents have lodged objections to the recent valuations according to the county clerk (Mr. F. L. Nicol). Out of about 1745 ratepayers and 3335 assessments, only 72 ratepayers covering 93 assessments had lodged objections, said Mr. Nicol. The objections will be considered by the Valuation Department office in Wanganui and, if satisfactory adjustments are not made, the objection will be considered bv an assessment court.— (0.C.) Night Trains At Marton From 5.30 p.m. till 7 a.m., when the new flood-lighting system at Marton Junction will be most in use during the winter months, 15 freight and mixed trains arrive there and 15 depart. As most of these trains have to be shunted and sometimes completely reassembled, the total for comparative purposes may be stated as 30. In addition, there are four express trains each night and one railcar, bringing the total to 35. During particularly busy periods when specials are necessary, the number of night trains is even higher and at holiday times passenger traffic on the Main Trunk is heavy. Term of Abuse. The word Nazi was a swear word in Germany now and was seldom used. To call a person a Nazi was worse than calling him a pig. This was stated by Dr. Otto Meinardus, a former. Geman soldier, in an address at Christchurch. He believed that everything concerning Nazism or Hitlerism in Germany had died out. This was not because of re-education or teaching, but because the break in 1945 had shown the Germans that Hitlerism was false. Dr. Meinardus, who fought against the Russians and was taken prisoner by them in 1945, is now a Methodist minister. Slips On Stratford Line Several slips occurred on the Strat-ford-Okahukura line after heavy rain on Monday and some delays occurred to trains that night. The most exten- | Give slip came down between Douglas and Huiroa. The express from New Plymouth to Auckland was held for an hour and a-half at. Stratford while the line was cleared sufficiently for it to proceed at reduced speed through the slip area. Track gangs | worked till late into the night and | had all the obstructions removed by early this morning. A small slip came down on the Westmere bank yesterday afternoon, but no traffic delays resulted. Health Stamp Campaign This year’s issue of Health Stamps will be on sale from October 2 until January 31 next, provided stocks are not exhausted before then. Issued in two denominations, the stamps depict Princess Elizabeth with Prince Charles on her knee. The 3d stamp (2d postage plus Id for health camps) will be dull maroon and the l*d stamp (Id postage, ?,d health) will be bottle green. The Dominion sales objective will again be £lOO,OOO, from whi.h the New Zealand Federation of Health Camns will benefit by £33.000. Pirns for the Wanganui Health Stamp campaign will be discussed at a public meeting in the City Council Chambers tomorrow afternoon. Building Costs Soar The cost of building a typical fourroomed house containing 939 .w ta feet, of floor space on a flat section has more than doubled since 1938 Aulhor’lntive annual figures for the past 13 years are quoted in Ihn annual report of th* State Advances Corporation to show that the price of construction for this typ-7 of home has ri-mi from £983 in’ 1938 to £1829 in 1950. The corporation sta’cs I’M the cost, of sections is not include * in its calculations, and it ran ho taken that, except for the ven- 1946 the fl"—v*", refer to an actual house comparable in all resnocts and erected in the same locality each year. Details o r the increases are: 1938, £983; 1939, £993; 1940, £1051; 1941, £llB2. 19-12, £1172; 1.943, £1350; 1944. £1419: 1945, £1152; 194 G, £1585; 1947. £1567; 1918, £1630; 1949, £1798; 1950, £1829.