WEST COAST NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19251, 5 March 1928, Page 5

WEST COAST NOTES.

PERSONAL. (SPECIAL TO in PEIIB-) GREYMOUTH, March 4. Dr. W. A. Bird, 'who has been relieving Dr. W. McKay, of Greymouth. returned to Christchurch yesterday. Mr Frank Hamilton left by car this afternoon on his return to Nelson. Mrs M. Arnott (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs H. Cooper (Keefton). Among the visitors who returned to their homes yesterday were: —Mr and Mrs D. McDavitt, Mrs A. Hill (Christchurch), Messrs R. Hosie (Petone), Mr Walter Brown (Christchurch), F. McFarland (Wellington), J. W. Card (Featherston), N. Davis (Manaia), and Thomas Candy (Sydenham). Mr and Mrs Charles Bowden will return to Feilding to-morrow. The death of Mr John Olderog. of Arahura Valley, occurred at the Westland Hospital on Friday evening. Mr Olderog, who was unmarried, was sixty years of age and a native of the Hokitika district. Mr Julius Felix died at the West-land Hospital on Friday evening. Mr Felix, who was unmarried, was fifty-four years of age and a miner by occupation. For many years he was mining at Blue Spur, but recently had been residing at Kanieri. The death of Mr Stephen Coakley, of Blaketown, occurred this morning at the Grey Hospital. Mr Coakley was a native of Greymouth, being the third son of the late Mr and Mrs James Coakley. He was forty-live years of age and a native of Blaketown. He is survived by a widow with two children. The death occurred at the Grey Hospital this afternoon of Mr Bernard Lanini, of Chesterfield (South Beach), and one of the oldest residents on the coast. He was a native of Switzerland and ninety-one years of age. He is survived by a widow and a grown-up family. Cycling Accident. Through the wheels, of her bicycle skidding when crossing a tramway on the road between Kanieri and Hokitika, Miss Learmont, of Kanieri, was thrown heavily on the road and had her right elbow dislocated and minor injuries. Jubilee Ends. Under the ideal weather conditions which have prevailed during the Jubi : lee festival in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Borough of Greymouth, the celebrations were concluded yesterday. The chief attractions were the West Coast Fire Brigades' demonstration at McGinley Park and the Jubilee sports at Victoria Park.

Yesterday's express for Christchurch carried a large contingent of Jubilee visitors returning to their homes. The usual crowds which throng the business streets on Saturday evenings dispersed at an early hour, indicating that the people had grown weary under the strain of excitement of the eight davs' festival.

Victoria Park last evening was the popular rendezvous of the members of the younger generation, who patronised the amusements and side-shows in large numbers till the hour of midnight. The final curtain was rung, down on the celebrations by householders turning their clocks back from summer to standard time before returning to a well earned rest. The work of dismantling the bunting and decorations will be commenced to-morrow, when Greymouth residents will start the weeks' work under less picturesque but more normal conditions than have obtained during Jubilee Week.