LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19722, 13 December 1926, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Over the week-end the weather was very close and sultry, and the humid conditions culminated in heavy rain, which began just before noon. The downpour was disappointing to many who had made preparations for a day out of doors, and a large number of picnic parties were driven home, before schedule time, by the rain.

While cycling near the Commercial Hotel on Saturday evening, John McGuinness, aged 43, residing in Queen's Avenue. Gonville, was knocked from his machine by a motor cycle. He was later admitted to the Wanganui Hospital suffering from a fractured leg, but his condition is not considered serious.

Unexpected developments have resulted in the cancellation, for this year, of the annual boat race between Wanganui Collegiate School and Christ’s College icrews. The race was to have been rowed next Wednesday, but the Wanganui crew’s departure for the south on Saturday was held up at the last minute.

The Holiday Number of the “New Zealand Free I>ance, ” which is out this week, is obviously intended for the Dominion’s home consumption. Its 72 pages are full of the Christmas holiday spirit, in bright pictures, laughable cartoons, whimsical verse, and amusing stories, all original, and bristling with point and repartee. The handsome cover in throe colours carries a design suggestive of “While the Billy Boils.’’

The aftermath of a wedding on Saturday saw a well-known business man and his wife driving through the city in a car decorated with the significant legend, “Hitched up to-day.” and the mystic symbols. “XXX.” People aware of the fact that the couple have been married for many moons might have, been pardoned for perplexity about the why and the wherefore, and for the assumption that a practical joke had accomplished good results.

An idea of the enterprise of service car companies is famished by the fact that a daily service is now covering the precipitous road from Taihape to Napier. The road /juts off many hours on the railway trip between Hawke’s Bay and Auckland. It passes through grand scenery, the country being known for its sporting attractions. Several Wanganui motoring parties propose to camp during the holidays, in the remote district opened up by the road.