LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 January 1928, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mass will be celebrated at Ahaura on Sunday, January 15, at 9 a.m. — Advt.

It is understood that Mr W. H. Johnston has disposed of his residence in Kilgour Road, Mr F. Shallcrass being the purchaser.

A pretty bungalow is being erected at the rear of the Town Belt on one of the sections owned by the Perotti estate, Mr John Hart being the contractor.

During the month of December, 1927, the following stock were slaughtered ■at the Greymouth Municipal Abbatoirs, cows 24 (condemned 1), bullocks 132, sheep 407, lambs 457, pigs 12, calves 17. The fees collected for the month amounted to £llB 10/-.

We have very special value in Pillow Slips, full size and good quality. Selling at six (6) for 5/11. C. Smith, Ltd., Drapers, Greymouth.—Advt.

There is deep mourning to-day, so if. is said, amongst certain members of the community at Greymouth. The reason? Well, the story goes that the “bank” was badly broken yesterday; that patrons struck it rich to the extent of no less than £440; that the available funds totalled only £240, and that an extra tenner was raised, the “bank” paying out to the extent of £250. Whether an i.o.u. was accepted for the remainder is not recorded.

Manchester specials, lovely quality. — White Damask Table Cloths, size 80 x 50 at special price, 5/6 each. C. Smith, Ltd., Drapers, Greymouth.— Advt.

“Is it a fact that some of the lady teachers smoke in front of the children?” was a question asked the headmaster at a. meeting of the Woodville School Committee. The .headmaster said ho was not aware of it, and while ho disapproved of it, and while he disapproved of either male or female teachers smoking in school hours he did not know of a regulation against it. If the children saw the teachers smoking in the teachers’ room the children had no business to be there. Ho thought the “ committee would be well advised to approach the teachers concerned directly.

A small Auckland boy lent material assistance to Auckland when the home team was batting against Canterbury at Eden Park (says the “Star”). He fielded a ball 5 yards inside the line as it came gently along, but instead of politely handing it to the Canterbury fieldsman who was in pursuit, he hurled it enthusiastically over the boundary mark. That particular stroke counted four. The problem that the umpire had to decide hurriedly was whether the ball would have travelled over the line of its own volition.

A West Coaster’s House —Tattersail’s Hotel, Christchurch, the most central and most popular for accommodation, with W. A. Stapleton as proprietor.—Advt.

They do things differently in London. Recently a visitor from Greymouth applied to the authorities there for a motor driver’s license. This was granted on payment of a fee of five shillings, no Questions being asked as to his capabilities as a driver. Remembering the “gruelling” tests through which Inspector Sloss puts applicants for licenses in Greymouth, he was somewhat surprised at the evident laxity on the matter in the world’s largest city.

Bathing togs at reduced prices.— Ladies’ and children’s Rubber Bathing Caps, Selling Off lOd and 1/11; Rubber Helmets, Selling Off 2/6; Children's Bathing Costumes 1/11 and 2/11; Ladies’ Bathing Costumes, Selling Off 3/11 and 5/11; Ladies’ and Gent’s Woollen Bathing Suits, Selling Off 8/11. McGruer’s, Greymouth.—Advt.

Five Eurasian girls, who intend to take up domestic work in New Zealand, arrived by the steamer Sussex yesterday (telegraphed our Auckland correspondent). They are under charge of the .missionary, Miss J. E. Earl, who is interested in the work of improving the social position of such girls, whose lot in India is not very happy. Similar parties have arrived in the Dominion from time to time, and the grils have been placed in employment.

Two seasonable lines. —Summertime is jam making time, and you will want Jam Pot; Covers, We have the best quality procurable in two styles at 4d. a packet of twenty. Then the kiddies will spend most of their time in the water swimming. Guard against accidents by providing them with Water-Wings; you will save yourself a lot. of worry at a small cost. The best procurable may be had for 3/6 at B. Dixon’s, Tainui Street. —Advt.

A meeting of the Trades Picnic Committee took place last evening, there being present Messrs Herring, Bond, Phillips, Lewis, Barrowman, Scott and Jackson. It was decided to abandon the picnic through lack of support, by ihe shop assistants. In the last three years there has been a falling off in the attendance, and it has been very disheartening to the committee to find small parties organised and going elsewhere on the day of the picnic. The abandonment of the Trades Picnic means that the shop assistants will lose their annual holiday.

Children’s Washing Dresses, Pinafores and Overalls, sizes 18 to 28in., Selling Off 1/6, 2/2 and 2/11; Infants’ Washing Rompers, Selling Off 2/4 and, 2/11. Our prices are the lowest. MoGruer’s, Greymouth and Reefton — Advt.

January special offer at A. E. Kilgour’s.—B Tablets Brown Windsor Soap for 1/-; Lifebuoy Soap s£d, Cashmere Bouquet Soap Bd, Castilever Soap lid, Knight’s Castille Soap Bd, Rexona. Soap 1/3, Cuticura Soap 1/4, Palmolive Soap 71d, Comfort Bath Soap 1/4, Blue Seal Vaseline 6d a jar, Bay Rum 1/6 a large bottle, genuine Coconut Oil 1/- a jar, Cucumber Complexion Cream 2/- bottle, Ashes of Roses Brilliantine 2/- a bottle, Ashes of Roses and Jasmine 1/3 bottle, Carnation Talcum Powder lOd a tin, Brighton’s Talcum Powder 1/- a tin, Plaza Baby Powder 2/- a bottle. On sale at A. E. Kilgour’s, Fancy Goods Depot, Mawhera Quay.—Advt.

Speaking ai last night’s meeting of the Greymouth Borough Council, Cr. O’Brien said the Christmas festivities at the Hospital, which at one time were confined to the entertainment of the old people, had now divided itself under three heads, the old people, the hospital patients, and the nursing staff. When pressed to place the three heads in the order of precedence as he had observed it last Christmas Day, he remarked that as there was some miseltoe about and as he noticed some of the visitors suspiciously near some of the pretty nurses under it, he could only conclude that they were the chief attraction!

Useful handbooks.—“ The Locomotive of To-day” 6/6; “Ju-Jitsu” by Sutjerland, 2/6; “Keeping Fit” by Mayes 3/-; “Athletics for Women and Girls” by Lynn 3/-; “Lawn Tennis” by Lenglen 3/-; “Home Bottling, Drying and Preserving” by Andrea 3/6; “The Book of Ices” by Marshall 3/-; “Practical Electrical Engineering” fiy Ibbetson 3/6; “Molesworth’s Pocket Book of Engineering Formulae” 8/-; “Wheel Gearing, Pitch-Line Diameters” by Orr 4/6; “Electrical Tables” by Thompson 2/-; “Electrical Installation Rules and Tables” by Ibbetson 2/-; at B. Dixon’s, Tainui Street.— Advt.

The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has again arranged to deliver single carcases of prime New Zealand lamb to any address in the United Kingdom for the forthcoming Easter season. A present of prime New Zealand lamb to friends at Home at Easter time is equally appropriate, and as much appreciated as during the Christmas season. The lamb-eating season at Home really commences about Easter, which is Spring time in Britain. Further, recipients at Home will get new season’s New Zealand lambs which will at that, time be on the market. Full particulars will be found in the Board’s advertisement appearing in another column.

New books at P>. Dixon’s, Tainui Street. —“Lawrence and the Arabs” by Robert Graves, 10/6; “Mystic Isles of the South Seas” by Frederick O’Brien 4/6; “London, Yesterday Today ami To-morrow” by Harper, 9/6; “Queer Things About London” by Harper, 9/6; “Stevenson” by Chesterton, 6/-; “Round the World with the Prince” by Turley, 4/6; “Epigrams,” Wit and Humour in Brief, by Jerrold, 7/6; “Jesus Christ” by Canon Deane, 3/-; “Queen Elizabeth” by Sydney Dark. 3/-; New novels and reprints: “Running Horse Inn” by Sheppard, 6/-; “Gallions Reach” by Tomlinson 6/-, “Jahala” by Kelland 6/-; “In a Yun-Nan Courtyard” by Miln, 6/-; “The Traitors’ Gate” by Wallace, 3/6; “Bar 20 Rides Again” by Mulford, 2/6. —Advt. A smile was on the face of Cr. Williams at last night’s meeting of the Greymouth Borough Council when he was suggesting that a deposit should be collected from timber carters who wished to cross the Borough footpaths with loads to get to sections where building was going' on, and he mentioned the case of damage being done to the footpath in Kilgour Road. The Mayor was first to realise that Cr. Williams was having a “pull at his leg,” his residence being the only one in course of erection in Kilgour Road at the present time. When it dawned on other Councillors that the Mayor was the butt of the joke they too joined in the smile.

When in Greymouth stay at the Hotel Dominion, the sporting and commercial house, one minute from Railway Station, G.P.O. and Banks. Superior service, excellent table. Papers delivered to bedroom with morning tea. Speight’s and Monteith’s Ales on tap. E. J. Kiely, Proprietor. — Advt.

The following candidates have reached the standard of qualification tor the Junior National Scholarship (591 per cent): —Chalmers, J.C. (Greymouth Technical) 517 marks, Shannon, A.T. (Hokitika D.H.S.) 490 marks. —Press Assn.

Kennedy’s motor cars will run to Punakaiki and Mitchells on Sunday next, leaving the Post Office at 9.30 a.m. Visitors who wish to see these favourite resorts, which are among the best in New Zealand should reserve their seats at once at the firm’s garage in Boundary Street, or ’phone 255.

Lovers of a good wholesome beverage should try McGavin’s Oatmalt Stout. It is considered the finest brewed article in New Zealand. Griffen and Smith Ltd., the kcal agents, inform us their sales for same are phenomenal. —Advt.

Judge Cluer at Shoreditch County Court recently, speaking of bankrupts, said: “They ought to be got out of the country. They ought to be kept on an island specially for bankrupts, where they could trade on one another. It would be all the better for the nation.”

“While I. was in Sydney my daughter wrote and told me iny wife was smoking cigarettes; I packed up and came right back here to ask her about it,” said a man in the Police Court at Auckland,' when charged with assaulting his wife. “Well,” remarked Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., “what if she did smoke? I understand all women do it now.”

During the month of December, 1927, 1368 books were issued by the municipal librarians, 33 tickets were issued, and'2o new books placed on the Library shelves. During the year ended December 31, 1927, the total books issued to subscribers was 21,253, tickets issued 343, new books placed on the shelves 252. The total amount of subscribtions collected was £l2B 10/- and the fines £5O/19/6, a total of £179 9/6.

A well-known resident of Dunedin, who specialises in lectures on Robert Burns, sat beside a “bookie” in a train recently, and in the course of a conversation remarked that the “bookie” should come to his lecture that night in a certain hall. “What are you lecturing about?” asked the “bookie.” About Burns?” he was told. “Man, I wish I had known,” the “bookie” remarked with regret. “I’ve ’ always been interested in Burns.” He lit his pipe and added: “My opinion is that if Tommy Burns had a longei’ reach he would have beaten Jack Johnson.”

The West Coast Agricultural Pastoral and Industrial Association have received the following offers of assistance for prize funds:—Milking Shorthorn Association of Canterbury, £3 3/-; Caledonian Society, medals for dancing; Osmond and Son (N.Z.) Ltd., per W. Scott and Co., Dairyman’s Medicine outfit, value £6; N.Z. Ayrshire Breeders’ Shield for 1928, with trophy, £1 1/-; Mrs H. W. Kitchingham, £1 1/-; H. G. Carter, £1 1/-; Grey Farmers’ Union, £ 1/1; W. B. Clarkson and Sons, Christchurch, £1 1/-; Vacuum Oil Co. Ltd., £1 1/-.

Go to A. E. Kilgour’s for special value in Writing Pads. —The Forest Giant Writing Pad, 200 ruled sheets, 1/3 each; Pucca Pads, 1/- each; The Bargain Pad, 400 sheets, 1/6; Exquisite and Pembury Pads, 1/- each; Large supply of Account Books and office requisites. A. E. Kilgour, Bookseller and Stationer, Mawhera Quay. — Advt.

An instance of the extent to which the faculties of a specialist may be developed was given by Mr R. J. Strong at a luncheon of the Auckland Rotary Club in the course of an address entitled; “A Big Newspaper from the Inside.” He told of an old time newspaper man whose memory was so trained that he could without a single note set in type one, two, or more columns about any function or sports event or set a verbatim account of a sermon or public speech without having previously written the copy. Further, this remarkable man often set from memory reminiscences of events that had occurred from ten to twenty years previously. And this was before the days of much-adver-tised systems of memory training.

The number of motoring parties which have visited the West Coast during the holiday season has been a considerable increase on that of last year. While a number motored from Nelson direction and back the same way, others railed their cars from Springfield to Otira and detrained there. The cars railed to Otira for the week ended December 24 were 24; December 31, 99; January 7, 63. The cars loaded at Otira for carriage to Springfield were: December 24, 29; December 31, 52; January 7, 120. The figures for the corresponding periods in 1926 were: December 25, railed to Otira, 42 cars; January 1, 71; January 8, 32. The cars loaded at Otira for carriage to Springfield for the same periods were 23, 32, and 92.

Kugour’s special offer in Music Department.—Violin Outfits, 50/-, 65/-, 80/-, 150/-, to 200/-; Wilhelm Hardt second-hand Piano £55 cash, or easy terms arranged; Accordeons, 16/6, 22/6, 27/6, 32/6, 35/- to 65/-; Steel Guitars, 70/-, and 90/D Banjoline, 130/-: Mandolines, 45/- and 57/6; Large selection of Piano Rolls 6/6, to 8/9; Music Cases 7/6, 9/6, 10/- to 15/-; Violin Bows, 8/6, 12/6, 17/6 to 25/-; Gramophones, 90/-, 145/-, 165/-; His Master’s Voice Gramophones, £ll £l3/10/-, £l7, £27/10/-, £35 to £42. Easy terms arranged. A. E. Kilgour, Gramophone’ and Music Depot, Mawhera Quay. —Advt. Five novel bicycles propelled frantically by their riders kept spectators at the Professional Cycling Club’s meeting on Saturdaj r night _in good humour, says the “Wanganui Chronicle.” The distorted machines made the race an interesting one. One “oldtimer,” with a quaintly high front wheel bore its rider at a lofty altitude in pursuit of a machine with the gears exchanged. The latter machine was on the limit mark, and the cyclist, although he '■ pedalled at a furious pace, proceeded at a mere dawdle. Another machine of the same class proved so difficult to manipulate that its rider retired. The two heavily handicapped mon sat astride machines with the wheel hubs removed’ from the centre. As a. result of this distortion sensations akin to those secured on a boat in a heavy swell were given the riders, who despite their difficult mounts, managed to fill first and second places.