WEST COAST NOTES

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20880, 13 June 1933, Page 7

WEST COAST NOTES

PERSONAL. (SPECIAL TO ,TBB PBSSS.) ■ GEEYMOUTH, Jux» 12. Sirs' C. Hay," who has been visiting Dunedin, has returned to Cobden.> Mr H.' Langford, railway business agent, who has been visiting the West Coast, has to Christchurch. Mr Justice Blair, accompanied .by his associate,, Mr F.H. T. Alpers, left yesterday for Westport. . . Miss Doreen Daly, who has been visiting her parents in Greymouth, turned on Saturday* to Christchurch.; Mr and Mrs G. A. Wimsett, Westport, are spending a holiday in Greymouth. ' • „ - . Bishop Brodie arrived on Saturday from Christchurch, and yesterday administered confirmation to more than 200 young parsons at St,; Patrick's Church, Greymouth. Miss M. O'Brien, supervisor of the Greymouth telephone exchange,- who has been visiting Auckland, returned to Greymouth on Saturday. Mr James Grant, who was xecently married, was presented by the of the Grey Power Board on Saturday with a canteen, of cutlery, an alarm clock, and a set of coat nooks. Mr A. J. MacDowall, secretary of the board, made the presentation! Golf. The annual, inter-club match between the Greymouth and Hokitika Golf Clubs was played yesterday for the Caliari and Field cups on . the Greymouth Club's -links, at. Omoto, when the home club was, successful by 25 points to 11. In the captain v. the vice-captain's team match, the former team was defeated by seven games to nine. v. Association FootbalL The Westland Football Association's fixtures for Saturday were played in the best of weather, with grounds in good order, and before good attendances. At Cobden, the home team defeated Greymouth by five to one. For Cobden goals were scared by Maughan, McGougan, Marley, and W. Timlin. For Greymouth. Be Freatus scored. At Taylorville, Runanga beat the home team by two to none., Bunanga scorers being Craig and Clark. Runanga scored their goals in the early part of the first spelL The junior fixtures resulted: Grey 1 drew with Taylorville, two aH; Blackball defeated Dobson, nine to one. In the third grade, Technical A and ' Greymouth drew, two goals aIL "One way of gettitng back to better times is by trying to be more cheerful," said Colonel H. Holder- ; ness, president of the Hastings Returned Soldiers' Association, at. a reunion of former servicemen at • Hastings. "I am sure," added the i colonel, "that though for some of us • it may be difficult to look On the • bright side r ' .we. can all do a great 1 deal to help ourselves and our pals 1 alorig by being more cheery about * things. However bad they are,, we 1 should remember that they could " always be worse, and that in some - countries they are decidedlyworse than they are here."