HOKITIKA NOTES
[OUR own correspondent.]
HOKITIKA, March 28. A number of men registered under the unemployment scheme are at work replacing a. large section of the wharf for the Hokitika Harbour Board in anticipation of an improvement in the timber trade. The auction sale of the rights and privileges of the Westland Racing Club and the Kumara Racing Club was held by Wm. Jeffries & Co. in the Princess Theatre at noon to-day and resulted as follows: Westland Racing Club No. 1 and No. 2 Publican’s Booths to Mr. A. H. Nancekivell of the Railway Hotel at £22-apiece. Kumara Racing Club’s publican’s Ijooth to A. H. Nancekivell at £54. The rights to the Kumara race cards went tlo the Hokitika Guardian Co., for £lB. Miss E. R. Binfell of Invercargill, who has been on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. M. Teague, Stafford St., has returned home.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 March 1931, Page 11
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