NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 707, 5 January 1910, Page 2

NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

♦ TREATMENT Or ME GILIANDERS. (By Tclecrarli-SDOcial OorrcsDonHent") V/anganui, "January I The linicn Boating Olub met With a 1 ■ fan amount of success nt the Waitafa regatta, winning the Senior and Junior fours, and second jllaco in tlio maiden event i ' , The rainfall for Wanganui for December was 2 6 inches For tho whole jear the rainfall was 13 43 inches, ram falling on IGB days The spring months had the 4 greatest shafn of tho ram -the figures for •Vußust, September, be-f ing Iβ 70 inches, as against asl mchea * for the same months last jcar The local trarawajs' had a, very busy time both at Christmas and l> ew Tear, the takings bemg in excess of tho figures for the s corresponding period last year. ,Indignation continues to bo expressed both in town and country at the treatment nietod out to Mr Gillanders, manager of the Moumahaki Experiment Farm, and tho fact that ,£BOO was forthcoming on the Estimates as soon as tho late manager resigned )S very unfavourably commented on Tho final sprints of tho=e training for the Scnlhni; Handicap on Thursday Mβ being watched with great iinterest by ' numbers of spectator , !, who expect to see keen Tacing -when the day comes Australians have certainly sot the New Zealand competitor , ; *\ui example in the way in whici they ha\p stuck to their work They Ime trained unfailing regulant), and are in the pmk of condition, while tho Dominion's roprcKsntativcj lwe taken things lather easily, and cannot be «aid to be at tho top of then form Arnst came on without his boat which, lion over, armed today Ho intends putting in daily fourteen-mile rows. AVhilo these mav tako off some of his superfluous weight, thei hardly seem calculated to nnpro\e his pace Stimehow ho does not «com too keen on the matter, but whether he starts 01 not tho remainJar of tho field aro certain to proude good sport Tclton and Rowhiti went up the nier today, and intend to camp on the course till Saturdaj Tor Saturday another handic*p"hfts been'arranged for tho beaten scullfirs, and good prizes are being Ri\en,i6O that tho spectators that da> will be able to see foul races