WEST COAST NOTES

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17856, 31 August 1923, Page 11

WEST COAST NOTES

SOCIETY. •; GR EniOUTH, August 30. ' ojffast Coast Society's Competi•B j.r in sight reading (boys 12 **' fer'lß). James WicltC8 ' of *?yU, was a very easy winner. Hotel Accommodation. visitors to Greymouth remote! accommodation will be ${ jjuy reserve rooms by letter *lwra» before arrival, Accom - n° w at a P remium in the one of the largest hotels re*?Uis morning that only two not reserved for to-night. occasions recently passeng*%sg by the express from Christhad a lengthy search for Ration. Shortage of Truck 3. Vtavaooth 'business man reports | \i jaw thousands of feet of timtleft in a P addoek alongside the ■ * at Kotuku, the skids being jjrsnficient rollin g stock coul(1 not -ned to take all the timber -•fl the tunnel. Buyers would not **fto their timber being shipped, ft mine the railway they saved I'm 1000 feet, and a U.B. waggon iarry Wi ooo feet# A Grevmoutil JjL espressed the opinion that, in ■jS cope-with the traffic, the tunha ve t0 be usecl continuously, j'ilitit would be necessary to dupli|ile railway to Otira. ;,' y snow in the Gorge. iitoriiig party who left Grey'£k yesterday for Christchurch were Sto cross the Otira Gorge owing Sjieaw snow, and had to return %& going on by to-day's express. 4< Bugby League. njfet Coast Eugby League re : -agitive team, numbering nineteen S, were passengers by this morntfinprtss en route to Wellington, ■LtiteT' will meet a Wellington s|ij (Saturday. On Wednesday At to will play a practice match in jgatsr/rond <ra Saturday, Septemsta .irill play Canterbury at ChristTransit of Stock. Subfacilities for trucking stock lit&past;and' West, made availof the Otira Tuni'iirt.called, further attention to caused by careless oti on ;the railways. At thi3 lt|!j'meeting ;.6£ the- Grey Vallev sjjA:& 'the Fanners' Union, an intsstngdiscission took place on this was finally agreed that ji}fttTraffic,Manager,.ffe!ymouth, be lata to regarding sfock waggons, same be placed near the jaogtfcarriages, and not used to, ttat.ti&asi.eems to be the custom !tfiii£ ; lf this were done it'would from being bumped at shunting takes the/present time the stock about, and farmett .have to stand this loss *l§,|fci»t;has to go through the iota;{3}f isfeng that 'Stock trucks be brought' over fm Qmkts'ncii by Thursday's exjia tie the Addington E^tkts;if4&g.stock being two msii«iii|N|in the trucks; (3) MiltMftered for flag stations M.lif&gnor's name and adtefjptthe. Eailway Departv yards at the •|(j|te/Jnction, :'as.. at certain large consignments id'totfMn .this station, the small being, very inconMines. ■ prevalent in Eeefton new- gold finds, and 'fW3itereßt is taken in the develiwßif McVicar Bros.' new find jpittder Biyer.. So "far no word ■Mfe.Htod; about the driving of Ifflletel.to strike.the reef showIi at a. depth -of 150 lectors are confident 11' -livß down, the I driven; through it and firm. Should ! realised—and these y known in a few inst boom. . >e Scotia Mine are The newly-appoint-Mr G. Lowes, ar- ! and is no completio start baling the i iai completed the ng.of the levels will ;*s lapse, of; the oratory of ■ the oratory-debat-er West Coast Cornannual festival, is Mr J. Eigg. "There ment on.the work.in io. last year," said ilocution of the comand most, of them v the rules. One ive noticed in both aior orations, howof. the use of the orations judiciously le of infinitely more •inflected line. There >ad performance, in or senior orations, reditable record for Has been most diffije, as I have had to where I would like *o doubt this will competitors feel disM ask them to imaaced; with ten finegfven the right to They would like to they-can: have, only r That is the posi[fonnd myself!" at. he; had made a with rerßedß. roa League is a live its recent investigaMbilities of develop- ! sets of the district, j ide of the Fisheries the suitability of beds at Cape FoulBreakwater. Judg>f the reply received, *8 not view the procurable light. Sportsman, toeaiof the annual Wmouth Jockey Club tended ,to Mr John attended his of the club—a take much beating. Jeld in the afternoon to (who is now in He was £ seat, looking spick in his 6?; he ..was not equal *»8 bis annual song, ■ «e president (Mr m ?y«ig a hearty vote they hoped to attend g%e-over the dis%*3 the Millerton 'Sased work, and the