LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19721, 11 December 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“Tray” has forwarded to the “Chronicle” office a gift of 10s. for the “Chronicle” Hospital Wireless Fund. The Defence office at Wanganui is at present closed, on account of a refresher course for staff officers, in progress at Trent ham. Wanganui is represented by five members of the permanent forces. At the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Tau Marine was committed for trial on a charge of carnal knowledge. Charges of attempted carnal knowledge against Tingi Tcwaati and Maiwiri Ponga Okoara were dismissed. The accused were represented by Mr iT. Slipper and Detective J. Walsh con- ; ducted the prosecution. Discussing the offertory at his opening meeting on Thursday, Mr Gipsy Smith, the missioner, said last night that it was good, for the size of the crowd, jlt was better, in proportion, than the collections yielded by any other of his meetings in New Zealand. i Advertisers are asked to note in- , the following replies to advertisements are awaiting collection at th* “Chronicle” Branch office, Victoria Avenue:—F2, F2O, F 24 F 33, F 34, F-15, F 47, FAO 2, Fl 19. F. 127, Fl 30, F 143. F 144, Fl-15, F 155, F 159, Fl 60, GlOl, GlO9. The latest donation received at the “Chronicle” office for the Community Chest organised by the Wanganui Branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union is £2 10s, from a giver who prefers to be known as “An Old Debt.” The Chest has also been enriched by a donation of £2 from Mrs. Henry Collier, St. John’s Hill. Miss Muriel C. Gifford, who has for some time been a popular member of tho teaching staff of the Wanganui Girls’ College ,has been appointed to a teacher’s position in 'Training College of Domestic Science, Gloucester, England. Miss Gifford leaves Wanganui next week, and will spend a few days at her home in Napier before sailing for England, by the Niagara, on December 21. The parade of bands up the Avenue and along Guyton Street to Cook’s Gardens, where a school children’s sports meeting was in progress, introduced a bright note to late-night business activities in the city last evening. As the Pipe Band, impressively clad, led school bugle bands up the Avenue, interested onlookers gathered along the route. Tho effect was striking, and the martial music lively in character. Unsolicited praise for the work of the detective branch of the Wanganui police force was forthcoming at | tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday during the hearing of a number of charges j against Maoris. Tho Bench (Messrs: J. Aitken and C. H. Burnett J.P’s).j stated that Detectives Walsh and Revell, deserved groat praise for the fair and thorough way in which they j had conducted the inquiries in the J (•use concerned. Mr T. Slipper, who appeared for most of the accused, on- ' dorsed the opinion of the Bench. The inquiry had been a difficult one and ; had been handled with discretion and i ability.