REEFTON NOTES
(Our Own Correspondent.)
REEFTON, November 26
Mr C. Foley and Mrs Foley who have been in Christchurch on holiday returned by Thursday’s overland mail train.
Mr T. H. Lee, returned from Nelson on Friday evening. He expects that his son, Mr Herbert Lee, recently injured at Nelson, will be home at Reefton during the coming week. Rev. S. J. and Mrs Webb, who have been on holiday in Christchurch and the South, returned home on Thursday. Matron Hunt, of Waiuta Cottage Hospital has decided not to accept the position of Matron at the Westland Hospital at Hokitika, and will remain at Waiuta.
Mr Arthur Wells, of Westport, who recently underwent an examination by the Military Medical Board, is to undergo an .operation in Christchurch on Monday, to'see if some pieces of shrapnel lodged in his body during the war can be extracted. The team from the Reefton Fire Brigade who are competing at Denniston to-day, left by Twomey’s Motors for
Westport and Denniston. The Otira, Greymouth, Hokitika, Cobden and Kumara 'teams also passed through Reefton shortly after midday for the same destination. The seasonal slackness in the coal trade is being-felt at Reefton, some five days only being worked in the past fortnight at the majority of the mines.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1927, Page 8
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