REEFTON NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1931, Page 11

REEFTON NOTES

[OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.] REEFTON, January 24. Ensign and Mrs Liddy, of Leeston, have arrived to take charge of the local branch of the Salvation Army. Advice has been received here of the death at Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, on January 9, of Alfred Wilcox, who worked in the majority of mines in this district, and retired from mining in Waiuta, where he resided for five years. Of late he had been in business in Sydney. He was prominent in athletic circles .and one of the founders of the Waiuta League. He is survived by a widow, two sons and two daughters. An electrical storm , accompanied by heavy rain, has been experienced from 4 a.m. onwards at Reefton, and at 7.30 it is raining heavily. The Reefton Cricket Club have issued a challenge to the Waiuta A team to play a game on neutral ground with neutral umpires, owing to a difference that occurred in the last match at Waiuta on January 18, the gate receipts to go to some charity. , A parfc of Reefton miners are the successor tenderers for a tunnel 1200 feet, long at the State Mine, Rewanui. The party consists of Messrs J. Hay, L. McHenry, T. Fensom, S. Taylor, B. Hore, F. Sara. They start work early in the coming week.