WESTPORT ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 25 February 1911, Page 6

WESTPORT ITEMS.

A RESIGNATION. ' Mr. G. H. Gotliard, a member of tho Westport Harbour Board, resigned from tho board on Monday, ho being a contractor over tho amount specified in last session's legislation. ' PATENT SLIP FOR WESTPORT. Tho board's engineer is to report on tho cost of constructing a patent slip at Westport. It is .proposed to placo tho slip in tho largo floating basin now under iconstruction. A rough estimate of tho cost of a slip to take, vessels of tho sizo of tho Arahura is £24,000. During January the Westport Harbour Board's two suction dredges removed 159,950 tons of material' from the bar and channel—a record. ' SUNDAY PICTURE SHOWS. One of our borough councils is being bombardod with applications to hold Sunday picture shows. Until recently only benefit concerts were permitted, but tho council in question rescinded this arrangement,, and is now prepared to consider applications on their merits.' RETURNING TO GREECE. • A West Coaster, Mr. Nicholas'Bebels, who has been a resident in th'o Dominion for over fifty years, is returning to Love, in his native land, Grccce. After sailoring in tho Mediterranean and Black Seas, lio landed in Duncdin, and successfully followed tho Hokitika, Greymouth, Reefton,-Duller, and-Char-leston gold rushes, experiencing all. the vicissitudes of tho pioneering days. Ho saw a good deal of a certain old-time gang of. bushrangers, whoso first robbery on tho West Coast was his (Bebels') firearms. Ho rowed successfully in tho Lyttelton regattas in ISGI and 1863, and,' for over forty years, ho lias been ferryman at tho Totara River, Charles-; ton. Ho has vivid recollcctions of ing Halley's comet in tho Grecian Archipelago when a child, arid also of hardships experienced in swagging over the Alps from Canterbury to tho Coast.