WEST COAST NOTES

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 9 July 1929, Page 9

WEST COAST NOTES

PERSONAL. (SPECIAL TO IOX PRESS.) GREYMOUTH, July 8. Mr and Mrs Percy Chapman, of Nelson Creek, leave this week on a visit to Christchurch. Mr W. Greenwood, of the Public Trust Offiee, Christchurch, whp has been visiting his parents, will return to-morrow. Bishop Sadlier, of Xelson, will arrive in Greymouth from Christchurch on Thursday, leaving again on Saturday for Christchurch. Mr W. Smith, of Taieri, has been appointed to succeed Mr J. King as ganger on the railway permanent way at Beefton. Outbreaks ' Fire. A modern residence belonging to E. Stoop, of Woodstock, was completely destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. The insurances were:—Dwelling £.500, furniture £2oo, with the Guardian Office. Fire at Boss on Saturday morning destroved a cottage owned by A. "Moore. It was insured for £ 100 with the South British Company. A dwelling in Blake street, Blaketown, owned by Mr Andrew Steel, who has not occupied it since the earthquake owing to it being considered unfit for habitation, was found to be on lire last evening. The brigade was promptly on the scene and subdued the outbreak, though considerable damage was done. Boxing Tournament. A successful boxing tournament _ was staged at Hokitika b-~ the Hokitika Boxing Club on Saturday night. The final* resulted as follows: Fly, J. Atkinson (Hokitika); bantam, N. Bowe (Hokitika); feather, T. Dudley (Dobson) ; light-weights, C. Ferguson (Mananui) drew with C. Wright (Kokatahi); welter, Moore (Blackball); middle-weight, T. Croft (StillW The > "referee (Mr F. O'Neill) awarded Mr Langford's medal for the most scientific boxer to J. Atkinson (Hokitika). Obituary.

The death took place at the Grey Hospital this morning of Mr Charles Lind. of Cobden. He was 72 years of age and a native of Gothland (Sweden). He eame to the West Coast forty vears ago and followed the occupation" of gold mining. He had resided for many years in Cobden. He leaves a widow, one daughter, and one son. Mrs F. D. Ziegler, an old resident, died on Saturday. She was borai in Denmark in 1852 and came to HokitiKa nineteen years later. She was mamea in 1872 and had resided at different times in Hokitika, Stafford, Waimea, Kumara, and Greymouth. She is » ur ' vived by a family of four daughters and two sons.

Magistrate's Court. A sitting of the Greymouth Magistrate's Court was held to-day, Mr w. Meldrum, S.M., presiding. , For taking matches and a packet or cigarettes into the Wallsend mine Alfred EusseU Wootton was fined - ys - Alfred O'Brien, a member ,°* T ° c Greymouth Port Watersiders on > waa charged with assaulting J>onn Henry Davis and with using ODB^ n * language. He was fined 10s on eacn Ch l% driven by J. Spark?, collided

this evening at the Post Offiee corner with a motor-bus. Neither vehicle was seriously damaged. Accidents. Colin Cochrane, residing at Cobden, came into collision last evening with a motor-bus and suffered injuries to the head. He was removed to the Grey Hospital, where he was reported to-day to be conscious. A fully loaded taxi-car driven by P. T. Brennan (Greymout. collided with a lorry while returning from a dance at Bunanga about 2 o'clock on Saturday morning. Both vehicles were badly damaged. The lorry was owned by the Bunanga Co-op. Society and was driven by E. Tohill, of Greymouth. Nobody was injured. Buller Gorge. Bain on Saturday night brought down another slip in the Buller Gorge just on tne Westport side of the Whiteclift slip, which followed the big earthquake. The latest slip dislodged a tree of such proportions that in order to clear the road it had to be blasted out. Juvenile Court. At the Juvenile Court, Greymouth, to-day a 17-year-old boy was reprimanded and discharged on a charge of stealing motor-car curtains valued at £5 and tools valued at £1 16s. The cost of a new set of curtains had already been paid, and an order was made for payment for the tools. Technical School Board. The monthly meeting of the Board of Governors of the Greymouth High School was held this evening, Mr T. E. Coates presiding. It was reported that the cost of repairing earthquake damage at the school hostel bo far amounted to £6 18s 6d, but the final total would run into a much larger sum. Earthquake damage to the school equipment would run into £3O. T . Messrs W. H. Parfitt and A. J. Fairmaid were elected a visiting committee for the ensuing month. The Visiting Committee was requested to report on the cottage at the corner of the Board's section. The Principal drew the Board's attention to the fact that no electrical wiremen were taking advantage of the technical class for instruction. The result of the recent examinations, in which no candidates in Greymouth had passed, showed that candidate# would be wise to attend the classes provided for their instruction. Little interruption occurred in the work of the school following the earthquake. More Earthquakes. Three fairly severe shocks of_ earthquake occurred to-day at 11.45 a.m., 12.10 p.m., and 12.55 p.m., but did no harm. The first, caused many people to make for the streets.