WEST COAST NOTES

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 2 June 1925, Page 10

WEST COAST NOTES

PERSONAL. (gPXCIXL TO "th* pusi.") GREYMOUTH, June 1. Mr G. Smart has been appointed delegate to represent the Westland branch of the Railway Officers' Institute at the annual conference. Mr J. Mclndoe, clerk of the Court, lias been advised that he will now be transferred to Dunedin instead of Invercargill. Mr A. F. Drayton, .of Christehureh, is visiting Greymouth. Miss J. Crowley, who has resigned from the staff of the Stillwater School, was honoured by the residents prior to her departure for Addington, where she has received an appointment as first assistant-mistress. Mr T. Hurper, chairman of the School Committee, presided, and presented the guest with an ivory toilet set. The pupils of the school presented Miss Crowley with an address. Monthly Figures. During May the sum of £3IOO 10s lid was collected in Customs duty at Greymouth, and £B7 4s 2d in beer duty. Thirty vessels, with a tonnage of 16,193 tons, • entered the port during the period. Magistrate's Court. Mr W. Meldrum, S.M., presided at today's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. James Douglas Wingham, licensee of the Post Office Hctel, Greymouth, was charged witli exposing liquor for sale and selling during prohibited hours. Jack Brennan, the barman, was charged with supplying. Mr W. Hannan appeared for defendants, and pleaded guilty. Each was fined £1 and costs. William Brown, aged 16, was charged with the theft at Runanga of a bay gelding, the property of John Hart, valued at £2O, and with stealing a saddle valued at £4, the property of G. Dalzell, and a .22 calibre Remington repeating rifle, the property of Robert Gore, valued -at £6. William Low, aged 16, was charged with the theft of a bay mare, the property of Con Warren, valued at £25, and a saddle the property of Frederick James, valued at £2. Ho was also charged with the theft' of a repeating rifle and a butcher's knife. Mr W. J. Joyce appeared for the accused.

Senior-Sergeant McCarthy said 'the boys had apparently turned highwaymen, and had set out for Wcstport, sleeping in an old hut on the road. They were arrested at Punakaiki. One of tho boys was an employee of the Post Office, and tho other was a ropo boy at the State mines. He applied for. a remand, and suggested that they roport daily to, the constable at Dunollie. Accused were remanded on bail of £SO. His Worship refused to order the suppression of their names. - Baths Carnival. The exact amount realised through the bazaar und queen carnival in, aid of the swimming bath fund was £7lB 17s sd. League Football. The following have been recommended for inclusion in the South Island team: —Pinn (Runanga), Oust (Runanga), O, McElwee (Inangahua), Haisty (Blackball), Dodds (Blackball), Griffiths (Runanga), 1 0'Hallahan (Marist), Mears (Marist), and Mouat (Marist). Dairy Control, Mr W. Clayton, president of the West Coast' Council of the 'Farmers' Union, presided to-night at a largelyattended meeting which. was addressed by Mr J. R. Hamilton, of the Dairy Control Board.. Mr Hamilton said that when the conditions of the market in Great .Britain, were gone into by members of the Board, they found many factors not in favour of the producers. For instance, a large amount of produce was being put into ordinary open , stores. No doubt some of the reports of the decline in the. quality of New-Zealand produce was due to this. The marketing conditions were found to be very bad, arid the Tooley street merchants were simply competing one Against the other to sell their consignments. Tho selling price was at the mercy not of the strong man but of the weak maji, and the merchants themselves admitted that this was the weakness- of thy present metihod df sellingi. ■ Tho qbject of the Board was something that would stabilise the market and give the producer. something for his money. The dairy producers were all in the Northern Hemisphere, whereas the producers) of meat mostly were sduth of tho •Equator. It was therefore necessary to take over absolute control and tho Board would sooner go out of existence than have only partial control, which, would be as bad as having no power at all. A perfectly safe course, resulting in very little disturbance of the market was being taken, and increased steadiness would be the result. None of tho shipping companies had refused to carry out the suggested alterations in ships' holcfe as-suggested by the "Board's inspector, and thus the produce would be in the best possible condition when it reached London.

In reply to Mr Carter, Mr Hamilton said that all f.o.b. and c.i.f sales would still be in" existence.

Mr Carter said that Mr Grounds had made a statement directly the opposite. Mr Hamilton continued that the Board's scheme might automatically cut out f.o.b. sales, but it had no power to do so.

Mr Carter said that when the vote was taken it was on the understanding that there would be no absolute control. . Mr Hamilton said there had been no such promise given. In answer to further questions, Ms Hamilton said that when New Zealand butter was in short supply last year it touched Danish prices. A National brand was being adopted for advertising purposes,j and the Board favoured a design of a fern with New . Zealand dairy produce carved through the centre. .At the conclusion of the address, several questions were asked and Mr Hamilton was accorded a vote of thanks. . ' Sunshine and Rain, For the week ended Sunday there waß no rain at -Hokitika and 44 hours' sunshine.