LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stevenson’s Hotel, Reefton, superior accommodation, and booking office for Newman Bros., Motor Service to Westport, Nelson and Blenheim. —Advt. Lake Ryan (North Beach) and its immediate vicinity, has been declared a sanctuary for game. The Grey Accliniatisatioii Society notifies sportsmen of the fact, and intimates that anyone discharging firearms within the sanctuary will be prosecuted. The Postmaster General has agreed to a postal billlot being taken for the selection of axlistenei’s in'Tepi-esent-ativc on the Broadcasting Board. A candidate will have to deposit £5 and forfeit it if he cites not receive ton per cent of the total votes polled.— Press Assn.

. " I • • When speaking at Waiiuatuku on the present flat rate taxi»on motors, Mr A, McKenzie; president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, said the farmer would soon be paying 85 per cent of the taxes for the upkeep of the roads. “The Minister .will have to watch this,” he said, “and try to get the flat tax abolished and Jhe tyre tax substituted. Then those who use the roads will pay a larger amount towards their upkeep.”

Here we are again—6’s and 7’s in men’s box hide. De rby Bals-. 23/6; -4’ & and s’s ditto, 21/-; Men’s box calfDerby Bals., screwed and' stitched 28/6; glacie ditto, 35/-. Why men trade with Chalk’s—Because we deliver the goods. —J. W. Chalk, Greymouth and Reefton ; telephone 140, P.O. Box 45. — Advt. ..

In a report to the Postmaster-Gen-eral, the Secretary-General of the Post Office, who attended the Postal-Union Congress at Stockholm, says: The British Dominions’ right to individual votes at the Congress always has been subject to attack, and was again -discussed, witli the result that New Zealand is< in a position to reduce international letter postage, rate from 2gdto twopence for the first ounce, and from to a penny for each siibs- - ounce. This matter will be given serious .attention by the New Zealand department. The Congress decided on certain reductions in mail transit charges, which mean a small saving to the Dominion. The minimum surcharge on correspondence from oversea was reduced to ten centimes (one penny); at present, in the case of New Zealand it is 1-gd.—Press Assn.

New stocks just to hand of Leaches, Bestway. and Weldon’s latest books of knitting and crochet work, comprising all classes of work suitable for the infant, child, girl or boy, man or woman. Come in and inspect these new lines. Prices from 6d to 9d each. Send in for lists to B. Dixcjn, Tainui Street.—Advt.

Over twenty years ago we sold to Christ’s College, Christchurch, a Collinson piano. Hundreds and hundreds of students have practised and received their lessons on this beautiful instrument, and although it has received very hard wear,' to-day it is as good as ever. This is the way all our Collinson pianos wear. No doubt you are thinking of purchasing a piano—if so do not~let the selection worry you—just make up your mind to purchase a Collinson piano. You will not be disappointed. O?ir terms for purchase arc so very easy that you need not worry about the size of the payments. They will be adjusted for you. Please call at the Bristol Piano Coy., Greymouth and ask our manager,Mr Denne to explain our easy time payment system. "You will pot regret it. Reefton representative—Mr Nicholas LawnAdvt.

When you buy a gramophone, buy a real instrument. Visit our showroom and inspect three special new models, ‘‘The Brunswick,” £26/5/-; “His Mas. ter’s Voice,” £22: “Cheney ’ Cabinet, £3B. We • are sole agents for' these three machines; they can be purchased on easy terms. A small deposit will bring one of the -world’s ' best to your door'at cnee. Inspect to-day, —A. E. Kiigour, piano, gramophone and music warehouse. —Advt.

Mr and Mrs) A. T. Brooks are controlling the Gladstone Hotel, Reel-’ ton. Visitors will tho house equal to any on the Coast. Spacious dining room, with best. of attention, ! uiider personal supervision.. The hotel is being placed on the official list of the Tourist Department.—Advt; !Mr Frank /■ Kennedy, ’of t Blenheim, has obtained provisional protection-in the Patents Office' for 'a luminous number plate as a proposed, improvement to the automatic telephone dial-now in use. The figuresrare•discernible in ' the dark, and dialling is thus greatly facilitated. It’ is understood that the Departmental autlliffi'ities hre favourably impressed by the device.

. . Right now . the opportunity to buy the new winter goods at end. of the season’s bargain prices. ■' A -Annual Stocktaking Sale begins 9' o'clock Saturday at McGruer’s, Greymouth’, Reefton, and Hokitika. Follow the crowds. Buy where the thrifty buy. —Advt. \

i: Messrs P. Barr (chairman); F: W. Flanagan, C. DeR. Andrews, H, C. Hulme, T, J. Sherrard (secretary), the personnel' of the Public Service Appeal Board, arrived by yesterday’s express and opened a sitting this morning to hear appeals of the West Coast •civil servants ' regarding ■the"’l924 classification. About twenty appeals from Westport, Hokitika, Reefton. and Greymouth will be heard;-’"Messrs B, -L. Dullard (Public Service Inspector) and. A. C. Turnbull (Public .Service Commissioner's Secretary); will watch proceedings on behalf of the Department, whilst Mr F. W. Millar (General Sec. retary, J Public Service ii Association), will appear with appellants. ’ Mesdames Flanagan and Millar are. accompanying the party. - ! 1 We hdve just received a consignment of nefy Coir Mattings in superior quality at the-following reduced prices: 18in. 1/11 yard; 27in 2/11 yard ; 36in 3/11 yard ; 45in 4/11 yard ; also a splendid line of new ’Shadow ettes 48ih wide at 2/3, 2/6 and 2/11 yard.. C. Smith Ltd., House Furnishers; • ’ ? The common fallacy that New Zealand is a country infested with black men and cannibals’ has not yet been cleared-from the minds of some immigrants. An ihimigrant, recently arrived in Dunedin says-/jthat soifie 'of. his. fellow, passengers on the ship were iii possession. o£ firearnis of every descriptioii, and, when asked’’the said they Aveib: not 'taking any ’ chances with the “blacks 1 . 1 ’ .It took . a l -" deal of persuasion- on the part of thppassengers . conversant with New Zealand and its people to convince then companions that the stories they had heard were my(hs,,.and that New Zea. land was a civilised?country. ' ( \

Annual Stocktaking -Sale- begins. 9 o’clock Saturday, May 2nd. v at McGruer’s. Great clearance, and sacrifice of all-overstocked goods before annual stocktaking. Wonder bargains in every department. Pay a visit. McGruer’s, Greymouth, Reefton, and Hokitika. —Advt. ■ .

“If county councils could send some of their youimm- engineers to California or New York from time to time to consider and look into roading 3iietTi_ ods, it would be a great investment, said Mr A. E. 'Jull, a'member of the Main Highway Board, at<a meeting/f the Hawke’s Bay County Council, i ‘‘The trips might be made for periods of say three mioiiths, and if parties of half a dozen or more could be arranged lor, so much the better; lii America, said Mr Jull, “they are constantly ini. proving their road-making methods, and they are not afraid to throw oift old methods.’ ’

Leather school bags for either boy or girl, in solid hide, 8/6, 10/6; sput leather 4/6, 8/6; cloth 2/6, 3/- 3/6 j music cases in solid hide, flat or rolled 7/6 to 2t/- each; lunch boxes in fiben kane 2/6, 3/-, 3/6; school book satchels in fiberkane, waterproof, 8/-, 8/6; Hankow baskets Bd, larger 1/- each; whole cane baskets in four sizes at 7/6, 8/6, 9/6, 10/6 each; waste paper baskets 4/6’ 7/6, 10/6, 14/6 each; desk baskets 4/-, 4/6, 5/6, 6/-; best values are at B. Dixon's, Tainui Street. —Advt. - . . “The commercial men have their rings and combines, the labourers and others their unions, and they are loyal to them,” said Mr W. Ford at Waimatuku the other night (says the •“Southland Times”). “But not so the farmers. They do not pull together, and that is one of the reasons- why ffie farmers onlv receive about a third o tiie wealth “they produce. We only get from 40 to 60 per (cent of' the wealth we produce, the rest going to the middlemen. In Holland, the far. mer, by cutting out the middleman, gets 83 per cent of his products, and there is no reason why we should nor get somewhere near that figure.

' New goods in unique and dainty photo albums, 2/6, s 3/6, 4/6, 7/6 8/o; beautiful designs in new ladies’ and gents’ dressing' cases, 17/6, 20/-, 25/-, 30/-, 35/-. 37/6, 42/-, 50/-, 57/6 90/-; elegant and up-to-date in manicure sets, at 7/6, 10/6. 12/6, 15/6, 20/-, 22/6,. 25/-, 30/-, 35/-. Wedding cake boxes, all tin, with cards, hermetically sealed coiners, 4/6 dozen. Military hair brushes, w|th case, • 20/-, 25/-, 30/-, 40/-. Playing cards 1/3, 2/-, 4/6.-A. E. vigour, up-to-date Bookseller and Stationer. Advt.

Reporting to the Wellington Education Bdard last week,- the sub-com-mittee on agricultural instruction stat e d“ The vocation of farming will never be attractive soTong as the fsimer is the subject of unkind caricature and ridicule. The farmer is usually depicted as wearing an ancient hat, with a lock of hair protruding through a rent in the top, a long shaggy beard, a ragged shirt, baggy trousers held up to' the waist by a belt, and as to knees by bowyangs, boots hopeless. With him is his wife, prematurely a wed, accompanied by a large aiid unkempt family. The ‘cocky’ is the sub. ject- of ridicule in every paper. No decent boy, unless under economic pres, sure, would care to choose a vocation with such a prospect before him. AH such depreciation of the farmer sb oul d be rigorously suppressed, and literature tending to glorify the most important calling in the Dominion should appear in every paper and in all school readers.”

New books at B. Dixon’s, Tainui Street. “Playing the Game, by 1. E Ruth, 4/6; “Messalina,” by Vivian Crockett, 5/6; “Why Am I a Christian?” by Dr. Frank Crane, 4/6. New novels “Pollana of the Orange Blossoms,” by H. L. Smith, 6/-; Jne Diamond Thieves,” br Arthur Stringer 6/- ; “The Marriage Handicap, - by Ruby Ayres, 6/-; “Out of the Blue’ ’ f . by Sapper, 6/-; “The Valley of Adventure,” by Ogden, 6/-. New reprints, “Big Brother,” by Rex Beach," '3/6; “The Man in Ratcatcher,” by Sapper, 3/6; new 2/6 reprints, “Send for Dr. Brady,” by Birminaham; “The Chase of the Linda Belle” by Footner ; “Desert Valley,” by Gregory Jackson; “The lona Path.” by Mills- Yqung'; “North of 36,” bv Emerson Hough ; “The Valiev of Ghosts,” by Edgar Wallace: “The Last of the Chiefs,” bv J. A. Altsheler; “Selwyn Brothers,'’ by Mills xoung.—Adyt.

The hotel to stay at when in Greymouth, is the Royal, close touthe Railway Station. First class dininh Aooin with every attention. Speight s ana local ales always on tap. Booking office for Newman’s Motor Service. P. Crannitch, late of Timaru and Lyttelton, Proprietor.—Advt. J At the Magist'rateh”Uo’urt, the Rev. Moses Ayrton was’ fmed/£& and costs for ill-treating a horse -by net providhig it with sufficient rfppd .and water. The evidence went to show that thte’’fariimali-diad been wnfined since;’-last'-Novembers in a. paddock■' ot about half an acre; during which, time it had had very little water O! food. When the constable was taking it to the police station, the anima-b wllapsed.. ” ' ' ' '

The plight of the deserted wife con- , stitutes a big problem and it istsufficie'iitly acutq\ in Wellington to kengage a gilat deal “of the time and‘-at-tention of the Society for the Piotec ti’6n' x of Women and Children; /There are ■ many - cases ■of deserted wiveg? in Wellington—far more than there should be—nd fewer tliaii 15 irfesh chseS having been reported since Jjiiiuary of the present yeai’ : Wellington at this rate will Soon displace Auckland’as the “city'ot deserted wives. Sure to get it at Kilgqur’s; the very late’st. in' gramophbne ‘iecOrds; large stocks to choose from. “His Master’s ( Voice,” “Brunswick,” and Zonophone Recdrds.—A. E. Kilgour, for the latest records. —Advt./' . ;

A’ popular New . york department! store has; recently started a new dine of' business of a quite unusual type. It has set apart one of its ah ‘exhibition of paintings by young American artists. All. .the pictures are for sale? hut with. >a jmaximum limit of ,10.0 dollars. The object islto bring ’ together the purchaser who wants' a'h original work of art ’: but cannot, afford a big price, aiid .the, voting* painter who needs, to sell ihis. tfOTkaaild’i is ready’’ to let it go at a moderate .sum in order; that hejtnay live aiid progi’ess in Jiis; artd Hitherto the regulai’ galleries in New .York ( have’failed to answer this purpose,’/ at» tliey cater only for a comparatively small number of wealthy patrons, and their slow turnover 1 makes it necessary, for them to ask high figures. ‘The experiment is attracting, a good deal of attention. . </

For Bronchitis or Asthma inhale “Nazol.” Immediate relief will follow. 1 Start taking “Nazol” to-day. —Advt. , ‘ ' ■ .’- »• A recognised feature of summer in the Canadian Pacific Rockies is an "the efficient service of the S w ’ Guides - which for’’many years 1 has been maintained iii connection with the moun'tain hotels owned by the Caiiadiaii Pacific '• Railway Company; j Fallowing a suggestion .that - experienced Swiss mountaineers would be of great assistance’in that”region', aptly, described as “fifty Switzerland's -rolled ih’to one,” ari’aiigefiients were originally made to bring over a number of guides for the tqurist'seasen, and for several tears the men came over each spring anjl -returned'home in the autumn.. Becoming/well , satisfied with Canada, they: decided to lobatfe th eie perinanently, • and the Company built lor them the modeL'Swiss village of Edelweiss, located -fieai-' one • of'the many ’ bbauty spots on tjiei Can-adian-Pacific line. Two of the guides, Christian Haesler and r Edouard Feuz, aye- veterans who formed part ’of < •'the ■; 'original . grtffip. Haesler accompanied/ -Sri' -James Outram when life: made’ the -first 'successful ascent of Mount Assiniboine, in 1901, and Feuz was >. with the party of students who, .last-’yeaiy climbed five hitherto unsealed, mountains, and dis. ” covered a new icJutb to the top of Mt. Columbia (12/0,00) the second highest peak in the Rockibs,

When your throat is affected by damp weather,, take “Nazol” on sugar.,.- Removes huskiness and prevents serious trouble. 60 doses Id 6d. —Advt. - • ” i