LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

jin our report of the Trinity. Concert on Thursday List, Dot Nash’s name was iuadvertertly omitted. She did splendidly in her part, receiving a double encore. The Greymouth schools will break up for their term' holidays to-morrow. The vacation will enable both pupils and teachers to attend the Competition Festival next week. « Wanted—The first and last word in home-baking—Sharland’s Baking Powder. Ensures against cooking failures. —Advt. i! August has been am unusual month as regards the rainfall. It rained on only 9 days, making a total of 799 points. The heaviest fall was on August 2nd when 240 points fell.

A Dunedin firm of timber merchants expect to receive next month a shipment of 250,000 it of Tasmanian hardwood. It will come to a ready market. There are about 170 dairy factories throughout Taranaki, and at the present time only 14 are making butters The rest are making cheese, witn a prospect of others deciding to do so. Books on Poultry: Poultry and Profit 2/-; Pigeon Keeping for Amateurs 1/9; Diseases of Cage Birds, 1/9; Poultry Book, 3/-, postage 2d in the 1/- extra. Procurable at B. Dixon's, Tainui Street.—Advt.. Mr, P. Eowater, of the firm of Bowater and Bryan, returned to Westport from Wellington, on Saturday. Mr. Bowater reports that tire flotation of the' Charleston Coal and Timber Company is progressing most favourably.—Times, Westport. "How many electioneering meetings did you attend!” inquired counsel in a case that was being heard before his Honour Sir Bassett Edwards in the Supreme Court at Wellington. ‘“Only two,” replied the witness. “One was when that audacious bloke Semple was speaking at Upper Hutt.” The victim of the railway accident , at Westport on. Monday evening, William Murrige, lias been with Shacklcton to tiie South Pole and had also fought in the late war and been ■wounded several times. At the inquest, a verdict of accidental death was returned. A habit that’s good—the regular taking of Impey’s May Apple. Bids iinjigestion and constipation; imparts health and vitality.—Advt. “If there’s one real nuisance in a train it is a Maori who, having had more or less drink, wanders from end to end of the train, letting it be known to the world at large that he is aboard,” said Mr. E. W. Burton at the Te Kuiti Magistrate’s Court. "Like Noah’s dove he apparently cannot find a resting place, and he always forgets to shut the door.” “You can sing and smile,” wnlie you do your washing with “No Rubbing Laundry Help” for there* is no more toilsome wash-board drudgery. Get it to-day ! —Advt. “A Catholic” writes to the Christchurch Sun as follows :—“As to the Catholics not being loyal; they are more loyal than the people who are trying to stab them in the back. My five brothers went to the front—two are buried on Gallipoli, two in France and the returned one is crippled—and there are three of us left yet who will fight for Britain when required. New Spring goods opening show Thursday, September 2nd. The Millinery is very moderately priced and the styles are exclusive. McGruer and Co., the leading Milliners, Greymouth.—Advt. At the monthly meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board, the dredgemaster (Captain George Simpson, formerly of the Westport HaAour Board staff) presented a report regarding the Kaione. The report has not been published, it being resolved to get Mr. Blair Mason’s confirmation of it, but there is some reason to believe that 1 cue Kaione is unsuitable for requirements at present. In all probability i a smaller dredge will he hired. Those about to furnish ( should in-' spect the celebrated “Symerang” kapoc mattresses, which for health and comfort are on their own. All sizes are kept in stock by the„-\vhole-sale cash drapers, chothiers, and house furnishers. Ij- in the £ discount at ' C. Smith Ltd. Greymouth.—Advt. “I may be pessimistic on thisisubi ject, but 1 think we are tending towards soil exhaustion in New Zealand a condition which has caused farmers in other countries to abandon their ' land,” said Mr." R. T. Alexander, • director of Lincoln College in a‘ lec- . ture to farmers last week. He added that often when son succeeded father on the same land and did not do so 1 well, it was said ho was not the ■ farmer his father was. Quite the reverse might be the case, Mr. Alexi ander said, for the father might have squeezed the land like a sponge and left nothing but a collapsed soil for 1 his son to work ; Books on gardening you may want; Tomatoes and Salads; The Garden Frame; The Allotment; The Beginners ' Gardening Book; Potatoes and Root i Crops; Fruit Tree Pruning; Profiti able Small Fruits, price 1/- each, post- . age 3d extra procurable from B. L Dixon, Tainui Street. —Advt. Some months ago (says the Wel- ■ lington Post of Saturday last) thirteen ■ discharged soldiers from Hokitika, all with experience in the sawmilling in- , dustry, banded together, and, with advances from the Repatriation Department, purchased a sawmill and two sections of good bush at Inangahua. Although the bush is within 24 miles of Westport, the gap in the railway necessitates carting five miles to Inangahua, thence by rail 76 miles to Greymouth. Five directors govern the venture, which is run on a business basis, and with the -economical methods adopted the timber will cost 12s 6d per hundred feet. The output is 6000 feet daily. Useful Books for Gardeners : Fruit Culture 2/-; Bulb Culture; 2/-; Carnations, 2/-; Perpetual Carnations, 2/-; Carnation Culture, 2/-; Tomato Culture. 2/-; Sweet Peas and how to Grow Them, 2/-; An Easy Guide to New Zealand Gardening, 1/6; Roses for Amateurs, 2/-; Rose Growing for Amateurs, 2/-; First Steps in Gardening, 2/6; Australasian Carnation Culture, 2/6. Procurable at B. Bison’s Tainui Street.—Advt. Persons anticipating a tour of the Te Ann-Milford track will be interested to learn that the Tourist Department is making some very necessary improvements for the coming season. Additional accommodation will be provided at the various huts, and steps are mein g taken to put the telephone system into operation again. Mrs. Sutherland has agreed to open the accommodation-house at Milford Sound. This is undoubtedly one of the most interesting stages of the tour, and the additional accomodation here will prove a great bdon tot tourists. A suitable launch will also be provided at Milford to enable visitors to see the many interesting points in the Sounds. The Department and Oount3 r Council have the road question in hand, and fn all probability men will be engaged at an early date to commence " this very urgent and necessary work. - L Opening show of -new Spring Millinery, Thursday, September'2nd and following days. A show equal to any city display. New imported model and lace brim Leghorn hats together with a large variety of beautiful hats from out own millinery workrooins. Our variety is easily the largest : on the West Coast. McGruer and Co., Greymouth.—Advt. • 1 Carry it in your pocket. “Nazol” protects from colds, coughs and sore throats. Penetrating, pleasant, sah and convenient. 1/6 buys 60 doses.— Nazol Inhaler.—A dvr.. Singers and public speakers find “Nazol” unequalled for preventing or relieving huskiness and soreness in the throat. Can he taken anywhere,-* Jldvt.