WEST COAST NEWS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21354, 22 December 1934, Page 5

WEST COAST NEWS

GREYMOUTH PERSONAL i (SFXCIAL to THE PBBS8.) GREYMOUTH, December 21. Miss Joan Forbes is visiting Oamaru. Miss M. left yesterday for Wellington. Miss M. Phelan left yesterday for Wellington. Mr J. O'Brien, M.P., left yesterday for Christchurch. Miss Madge Smitheram, who will leave shortly for South Africa, was met last evening by members of the Runanga Girls' Club, and presented with a greenstone and silver spoon with a Maori tiki engraved thereon. Child Welfare Officer Following the agitation for the appointment of a successor to Miss K. Carter as Clhild Welfare Officer at Greymouth, Mr James O'Brien, M.P., has taken the matter up, and has forwarded a protest on behalf of the Women's Institute to the Minister for Justice. State Miners on Belief Fifty-four James miners are engaged on a co-operative basis in the construction of 53 chains of deviation of the Greymouth-Westport Coastal road at the Nine Mile. The work is being done on a co-operative basis, and the standard rate of pay will be 10s 6d, the ruling Public Works rate. The job is estimated to cost £3500, and is under the supervision of the Grey County Council.

REEFTON PERSONAL <SP»CIA£i SO THS PBISS.) REEFTON, December 21. Mrs and Miss L. King have returned from holidays spent in Christchurch and Wellington. Mr W. F. Archer has returned from Wellington. School Social «, A « th £ breaking-up social held at the Reefton District High School, op- ?/? T as taken to bid farewell to Mr E. Clarke, a teacher of the secondary department, who is leaving Reef--52 n up a Position at Gisborne. Mr W. B. Auld, chairman of the school committee, in asking Mr Clarke to accept a gold watch from the pupils and staff of the school, expressed regret at losing so popular a teacher. Mr Clarke replied suitably. Mr Clarke also received a copy of Shakespeare's works from the parishioners of St. Stephen's Church. Cricket The following are the cricket fixtures for this week-end:—Reefton v. Waratahs, at Reefton; Waiuta v. Ikamatua, at Ikamatua; Nelson Creek a bye. Lodge Meeting: The annual meeting of the Loyal Reefton Lodge of Oddfellows was held in the lodge room. There was a good attendance, which included a number of visitors. Bro. N. Alborn was installed as N.G. and Bro. P. Dellaca as I.P.N.G. One new member was initiated. Hospital Board The monthly meeting of the Inangahua Hospital Board was presided over by Mr J. B. Auld.

It was decided to apply to the Department of Health for authority to raise an overdraft. The accounts for the month were: Receipts £377 16s, expenditure £526 lis lOd. The chairman extended Christmas greetings to the members of the board and to the hospital staff. County Council Mr J. B. Auld presided over the monthly meeting of the Inangahua County Council. The engineer was permission to attend a conference of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engi :ers. It was resolved that, as there was no possibility of the council receiving any assistance from the unemployment funds towards its proportion of the cost of the deviation on the Reef-ton-Maruia road, the Public Works Department be asked to carry out the work itself. The following tenders were accepted:—Formation of Blair's road, T. Douglas and patty, £221 Is 4d; widening Murray Creek road, Edwards and Rollerson, £ll3 Is; supply of metal for Reefton streets, F. Collis, 3s a yard. It was decided to provide a practice stand for the fire brigade at a cost of £2O. The chairman stated that all arrangements were completed for the Royal visit. Telephonic Communication At the Inangahua County Council's meeting this week, reference was made to the comparative isolation of Maruia Springs through the lack of telephonic communication. A member stated that this connexion was a necessity, especially should a serious accident occur in the district. Cr. Blackadder said that the telephone service in Maruia was very poor. Persons often came from a distance to ring up only to find tlhat they could not get a connexion. For half the year the line was down between Maruia and Murdhiscn, and as the poles were of white birch, they did not last long. The council decided to make representations to the Post and Telegraph Department to have a telephonic connexion made to MaruTa Springs.