WEST COAST NOTES

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18242, 28 November 1924, Page 3

WEST COAST NOTES

PROPERTY MARKET. (special to "tot: passs.") GREYMOUTH, November 27. The National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., has purchased from the trustees of the assigned estate of Mark Sprot and Co. the saleyards in Preston road, where, up till a few years ago, sales of stock were held at regular intervals. The purchasers intend to hold these in future fortnightly.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have sold Hannan's butchery, in Albert street, to Mr F. G. Cooper.

County Council's Mistake. It transpires that tho members of the Grey County Council would have been individually liable to a penalty had not the clerk taken tho recent proceedings to unseat a member. New offices for the Council were recently completed at a cost of £2OOO, and tho Council has now discovered that it has no title to the ground upon which tho offices are built. At the last meeting of the Finance Committee tho sum of £SOO was voted to purchase tho section. This course was deemed necessary in view of a warning by the Audit Department that tho liability for the buildings would fall upon the members individually.

Hospital Board. Tho monthly meeting of the Grey Hospital Board was held to-day. Present: Messrs J. W. Hannan (chairman), J. Brislane, W. H. Parfitt, O. H. Brailsford, J. P. Irvine, and J. Greaney.

The chairman's action in arranging for Miss Heaphy to tako over tho duties of tho secretary, Miss H. Kilgour, during tho latter's convalescence, was endorsed.

It was decided to join tho Hospital Boards' Association. A letter was received from Messrs Guinness and Kitchingham, enclosing a cheque for £3O, being a donation from tho Cobdcn Industrial Building Society. A sub-committee, composed of Messrs Irvine, Greaney, and Brislane, was appointed to deal with applications for admission to tho Old People's Home.

Nurse Edwards, of St. Helens, Christchurch, was appointed actingmatron at Eewa Hospital, to commence duties on December 20th, and Nurse G. Leslie, of tho Timaru Hospital, submatron of the Grey Kiver Hospital, to commence duties on. December 16th.

Personal. * At the annual meeting of shareholders in the Wealth of Nations Mine, Mr W. Spencer was re-6lected chairman of directors, and Mr W. P. Monteith was re-elected to the Board. Mr W. H. Kennerly was appointed mine 'manager. ■ The Director-General of. Health has confirmed the appointment M Dr. R. H. Church as medical superintendent of the Reefton Hospital. Mr A. W. Downer, postmaster at Reefton, was the recipient of a number of presentations prior to his departure for Waimate on transfer. The choir and congregation of St. Stephon's Church presented him with a silver Eversharp pencil, and the Post Office staff handed him an umbrella in token of their esteem. Mr H. E. Combs, secretary of the P. and T. Association, will arrive ' in Grcymouth on Saturday. Messrs W. Williamson and J. Allen, contractor and overseer respectively for the Greymouth Old People V Home, arc due to arrive on the Coast within the next few days. " , : The Rev. P. B. and Mrs Prasery who leave Hokitika for England next day, were entertained by the ladies of St. Andrew's Church and presented with a purse o£ notes. The death took-place yesterday at the Westland Hospital of Mr John W. Bannister,, a former resident of Bruce Bay. The deceased, who was 75 yearsof age, is survived by a family of two daughters and fivo sons.

State Faxm. The dairy and other buildings which are to be constructed on "the Waimaunga State Farm will be put in 'hand next Technical School. Good progress has been made with the work of draining the Greymouth Technical School grounds, and the contractors are now making a trench across Upper High street. Ai deep trench has been dug diagonally across the ground, and two lateral drains which have also been completed will carry the water off the western portion.

Burglar Surprised. The proprietor of a leading Greymouth hotel was awakened one night this week by a person who was evidently intent on.robbing his bedroom. Tho intruder made off'wrhen his presence was discovered, and escaped through a bathroom window, . jumping to the ground'from a considerable height.

Magistrate's Court. At the Magistrate's Court at Hokitika to-day, before, Mr. W. Meldrum, S.M., Norman Randall (Mr J. W. Hannan) was charged with unlawfully using a borough street for heavy traffic. Judgment was reserved. R. H. Wakelin and T. Tainui were charged with unseemly behaviour in a railway, carriage. The latter was fined os and costs, and the charge against Wakelin was adjourned for further evidence.