WEST COAST NOTES

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19062, 26 July 1927, Page 15

WEST COAST NOTES

PERSONAL.

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GBEYMOTJTH, July 25. Dr. Buchanan (Hokitika), has returned from a visit to Christchurch. The Eov. Father McMonagle, who has been spending & short holiday in Greymouth, will return to Christohueh to-morrow/ Mr James Bishop, consulting eafineer, and Mr G. Stitt, director, of the trunner Collieries, Ltd., will arrive tomorrow from Auckland,

Magistrate's Court. ifr W. Meldrum, S.M., presided at to-day's sitting of the Greymouth Magistrate's Court. Cecil Allison Owen Jones, aged 24, and William Henry Culverhouee Webber, aged 21, were charged with unlawfully converting to their own use a motor-car valued at £3OO, the property of David Stevenson. Accused, who were not represented by counsel, both pleaded guilty. Evidence was given by Sergeant J. Smyth to the effect that the car was taken from the parking place outside the Opera House on the evening of July 19th, when its owner was attending the pictures. It was found the next day, having been abandoned on the roadside at South Beach. The accused drove the ear to Kumara and around the country before abandoning it- Accused were fined £lO each, in default one month's imprisonment.

Charged with supplying liquor on Sunday, June 26th, to non-boarders, Winifred Blackmun, wife of the licensee of the Club Hotel, Blackball, was fined- £2 and costs. Three first offenders found on the premises were each convicted and ordered to pay costs. A second offender was fined £1 and costs. A statutory first offender arrested for drunkenness at Boa was convicted and ordered to pay £4 Is costs.

Auriferous Lead Discovered. Blasting operations in connexion with the contract of forming the road around the Mabel Bay bluff, on the Grey-West-port coastal road, have discovered an auriferous beach lead. Owing to a scarcity of water for sluicing operations, it is doubtful whether the lead can be worked successfully.

The Voracious Shag. The body of a shag shot by Mr E. H. Holmes, of Greymouth, at the Teremakau river, when opened disclosed the presence of a well-grown trout, fifteen inches long and one and a quarter poundß weight.

Greymouth Post Office. The Postmaster-General has advised Mr T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., that a sketch plan of the proposed additions to the Greymouth Post Office buildings has been prepared. Owing to the financial stringency, however, it will not be possible to proceed with the work during the current year.

Association Football. Playing at Kcefton yesterday after.noon, West Coast defeated Inangahua in a representative . Association game by three goals-to nil.

Obituary. Mr Philip Henry Amberger, one. of Hokitika's oldest identities, died yesterday, after a lengthy illness, at his late residence in Hokitika. Born in Frankfort, Germany, 75 years. ago, Mr Amberger served his. apprenticeship to the trade of tinsmith and plumber in his-native land. He arrived in New ZeWafid in 1870, coming to Hokitika, where he was first employed by the late Mr William Heinz, and later carried on a business successfully on his "own account for many years, until he sold out, in order to take up farming at Koiterangi. He continued farming, until his health failed, when he returned to HoTcitika to reside in his old home. Mr Amberger was formerly .a member of the Hokitika Borough Council, and for 16. years was an active member of the Fire Brigade. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge. He is survived by a widow and grown-up family of three sons and one daughter—Mrs A. Dimmick, of Koiterangi—also numerous, grandchildren.

The. death occurred at his residence in Queen street, Westport, yesterday, of Mr G. H. Burrows, one of the oldest residents of the Buller district. The late Mr Burrows was born in England 80 years ago and arrived in New Zealand as a member of the ship Warrior Queen, landing in Dunedin in 1868. He returned to England in the same vessel and came out again in 1869, to Nelson, where he shipped on the old coasting steamer John Penn, then trading to: Hokitika. He came to Westport in 1870, where he spent most of his life. He was for some years engaged as a bargeman on the Buller river, when the Lyell and Eeefton were in the heyday of their prosperity, and all provisions for the miners and machinery for the mines had to be taken to the Lyell and Landing by boat. He then went to Otago and was.some time on the Government steamer running on Lake Wakatipu. On returning to Westport he entered the employ of the Weßtport Harbour Board. He was a prominent Freemason, being P.M. of the Lodge Phoenix, Westport. He was for many years a steward of the Anglican Church. He is survived by his widow.