Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 49, 28 February 1939, Page 6

Town Talk

Municipal Golf Course. It is intended to still further improve the Wanganui Municipal golf course at Wanganui. Mr. C. H. Redhead, the well-known golf architect, has examined the course and his report on what should be done is to be placed before the City Council tonight.

Wanganui Pilot’s Success. The acrobatic competition at the Te Kuiti Aero Club's pageant, on Saturday was won by Mr. D. M. Lethbridge, captain of the Wanganui Aero Club, who also gained third place in the landing competition. Mr. R. Fletcher also represented the Wanganui Club at the pageant. Brilliant Sunset.

Last night the sun, seen’from Wanganui as it was setting, was a dull red. It looked as though it was going down into a haze of smoke from bush lives. A peculiar haze has settled over

the sea off the coast the last two or three nights and at evening the conditions have been such as arc usually associated with mid-summer rather than autumn.

Military Service. The Wanganui Branch of the NewZealand Defence League has been very active enlisting the co-operation of local bodies in a campaign to awaken wider public interest in the need for a compulsory scheme of military training in the Dominion. The league is asking leave for a deputation to address the City Council on the matter.

City’s Water Supply, Further discussion on the subject of the Okehu municipal water reserve is to take place at a. meeting of the Wanganui City Council to-night. The council and its officers, after receiving an adverse report from the Health Department as to cattle running in the reserve, inspected it more than a fortnight ago and at to-night’s meeting it is expected that, the council will come to some decision as to what should be done. A. and P. Association.

Nominations of candidates for seats on the general committee of the Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association close to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. So far, six new names have been handed in and there is every indication that the large membership enrolled during the past year is taking a live interest in the welfare of the association. The annual meeting is to be held to-morrow week.

Escapee Recaptured. Wanganui police assisted in the recapture of a prisoner, Tom Tu Kaaka, labourer, aged 38, who escaped from the Waikune prison camp, near National Park, last Wednesday. He was located at Ruatiti and taken at 2.30 a.m. on Sunday. Detective-Ser-geant N. W. Bayliss and Constable S. H. Cave, of Wanganui, together with Sergeant S. Clist (Taumarunui), R. Wilks (National Park), and S. J. Frost (Ohakune). took part in the search.

Welcome to Garrison Band. The Wanganui Garrison Band, which was placed second in the A grade test selections and the A grade quickstep at the New Zealand contest at Christchurch, will return to Wanganui by the 9 p.m. train to-day. On arrival at the station, the band will be met by the Wanganui Highland Pipe Band, and both bands will march to the 'Sarjeant Gallery steps, where the Garrison will be welcomed by the Mayor, Mr. W. J. Rogers. Life-saving Demonstration.

A demonstration by the Castlecliff Surf Section of the Royal Life-saving Society attracted a large crowd at Castlecliff Beach on Sunday. Favoured by fine weather and a calm sea, the demonstration was of a high standard, the four-man alarm being wop by R. Gibb, B. Currie, R. Lovett and C. Travers. The six-man event was won by the Surf Club B team, and the surf race by B. Haworth, of the Central Swimming Club. An added attraction at the beach was the Queen Alexandra's Own Band, which provided a bright musical programme. Strict Food Laws.

The fact that the health authorities in Java visited all hotels and restaurants daily to inspect and sample food before it was served, was mentioned by Miss Crichton Imrie during the course of an address to yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Rotary Club. The abattoir, said the speaker, was a magnificent ilpe of buildings surrounded by lawns and gardens and appeared more like an art gallery than a slaughterhouse. The stock was in the most humane methods available and thereywas not the sight, sound or smell of the killing. The system of inspection and branding was very rigid.

New Tiger Moth. The Wanganui Aero Clubs new Tiger Moth training aeroplane, which bears the Government registration ZK-AGZ, was flown to Wanganui on Sunday by the club captain, Mr. D. M. Lethbridge. Mr. Lethbridge flew to Auckland on Friday with Mr. H. L. Tancred, club instructor ,Mr Tancred returning to Wanganui on Saturday with Mr. G. Rogers as passenger. Mr. Lethbridge flew to Te Kuiti on Saturday and returned to Wanganui on Sunday. Mr. R. Fletcher flew to Te Kuiti on Saturday in the Tiger Moth ZK-AGA and returned on Sunday. The club's new Tiger Moth is similar to the present Tiger Moth except that it is not equipped with blind-flying instruments. Yesterday Mr. Lethbridge flew to Palmerston North and return in a Tiger Moth.

Wonderful Year For Lambs. "It has been a wonderful year for grass and fat lambs,’’ writes a Southland farmer to a friend at Wangaehu. "We have had only one draft of lambs away yet. We dratted before Christmas and they killed out at 37.85 lbs. We are drafting again in a fortnight and expect that draft to be a big one. I have a little bit of boast from Southland for you to pass on to farmers up there. A neighbour of ours, with 770 ewes, tailed 1070 lambs; 280 were drafted before Christmas, killing out at 48.841b5. Since then he has drafted again, securing 650 at an average weight of 381bs. Another man, who had 1500 lambs, drafted 1300 which killed at 411bs. Another, at Thorbury, who had 2000 lambs drafted 1430 at an average weight of 35lbs. I had better not tell you any more, or there will be an influx of North Island farmers to Southland."