GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 November 1950, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Band Season Opens. The 1950-51 band concert season opens tomorrow in the Queen’s Park domain. The Wanganui Garrison Band will present the programme.

Earthquakes in City. Wanganui recorded two small earthquakes on Thursday, the first of which was at 11 o’clock in the morning. This went unnoticed by most people, but it was followed by another 12 hours later, when a noisy rumbling preceded a slight jolt. Cyclist Injured.

Involved in an accident when he was cycling at the intersection cf Purnell and Jackson Streets yesterday, a pupil of the Wanganui Technical College, R. J. Hall, suffered slight concussion and abrasions to a leg and arm. Following treatment at the Wanganui Hospital, he returned to the college hostel. Application for Decathlons. The Wanganui Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club has applied to the West Coast (ND Athletic Centre for the West Coast and New Zealand decathlon championships to be held here next year. They are usually held about the middle of March. The club is also planning a trip to Taihape early in December.

Fast Freight Train. The new fast night freight train from Wellington to Wanganui and New Plymouth, which is being introduced primarily to provide improved transport for fruit and livestock between Hawke's Bay and Wanganui and Taranaki, will run for the first time on Monday, November 13. Previously it was stated that this service would begin next Monday.

Cultural Visit by Pupils. Accompanied by two teachers, 56 pupils of the Wanganui Intermediate School leave on Monday for a visit to the Napier Intermediate School. An annual event since both schools were founded in 1933, the visit this year will be educational and cultural rather than competitive. In past years, Rugby, soccer and basketball matches have been play 2d. The pupils return on Wednesday. Athletic Club Opening. The Wanganui Amateur and Cycling club will open its 1950-51 season with an evening’s programme or scratch races next Thursday. On the following Thursday, November 16, the club will officially open its new pavilion built to replace the one destroyed by fire last year. The opening ceremony will be held about 6 p.m., the presentation of last season’s trophies and a social evening following at night Air Parcel Service.

From next Monday an air parcel service to the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the United States will operate, said the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Broadfoot) yesterday. The rate for eight ounces will be 15s to the United Kingdom, 10s to Canada and the United States and 2s 6d to , Australia. The service will be daily to Australia, twice a week to the United Kingdom and once weekly to the United States. Transit time to the United Kingdom will be seven or eight days. Express Delayed. New Plymouth-Wellington express was about three hours late reaching Aramoho yestei'Guy afternoon). The delay was caused by an axle on the tender of the locomotive breaking near Bell Block, south cf New Plymouth, necessitating the replacement of the locomotive. When the express arrived at Aramoho about 3.30 p.m. a railways bus was wailing io take ahead passengers who bad to connect with the inter-island ferry. No delay was caused to the north-bound express, tin. crossing t iking place at Aramoho instead of Marton. iialtoke Lake Read.

Considering that the work could be carried out more economically by the use of county plant, the Wanganui County Council yesterday rescinded a previous decision to call tenders for the raising, culverting and metalling of the Kaitoke Lake Road. The County Engineer, Mr. R. R. Dawson, was instructed to proceed with the work, which will provide all-weather access to settlers in the lake area, as soon as possible. In his routine report he stated that most of the necessary plant was available for an immediate start. Quick Ambulance Flight.

The advantage of using aircraft for the transport of urgent medical cases was demonstrated yesterday when a patient was taken to Dunedin in the Wanganui Aero Club’s Percival Proctor. Flown by *ae club’s instructor (Mr K. E. Fenwick), the Proctor left Wanganui at 8.5 a.m. and was back at the aerodrome at 5.20 p.m. The patient, an elderly woman, was accompanied by an attendant. This is the second occasion .on which the Proctor has taken ambulance cases to Dunedin in the last two weeks. On the previous occasion a patient was brought back to Palmerston North from Dunedin on the return trip. Busy Workshops. The Central Military District’s workshops at Waiouru Military Camo are now the scene of much activity. Fx-aversoas vehicles, some of which have been lying in assembly parks since th? end c* World War 11, are being taken over by gangs and completely dismantled. All electrical parts are removed, brakes and motors pulled down, any repairs or replacements nttep to and the vehicle re-as-semble . These vehicles are. being used by K Force for training purposes and some of them will accompany the force when it leaves New Zealand. Some of the K Force men are working in the workshops as part of their