LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The roads in the Maruia district are reported as being in splendid order. Good progress is being made with the erection of a new hostel at Maruia, five men being at present engaged in its construction.

A king penguin came ashore near the golf links on Sunday (writes out Hokitika correspondent). It was taken home by a lad, but died during the night. It was found that the bir-l had suffered injury, otherwise its capture would not have been so easy.

It is not always the fisherman who is the victim of stories against himself. The following is the experience of a Putaruru shooter last week. The sportsman was out shooting rabbits when he saw one sitting some little distance away. He fired, and still the rabbit sat there without moving. He fired several more shots, with a like result. He went to investigate, and found that the rabbit had been dead for a considerable time.

In the opinion of Dr. Neale, Secretary of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, who returned from Australia, to-day, the time has .arrived for new names to be given Australian and New Zealand pounds. While in Sydney, he found many people confused through trying to add or substract the values of "the English and New Zealand pounds, with the result that some erroneous impressions were abroad. As the permanent depreciation of Australian currency seemed assured, a change of name should be helpful.—Press Assn.

Remember there are only a few' days left to effect big savings by purchas ing your requirements at our Great Winter Sale. The reductions are genuine and all goods are guaranteed Don’t let this opportunity pass. Sale closes Thursday, September 1. —C. Smith, Ltd. —Advt.

That wireless has become one of the amenities of everyday life may be judged bj’ a novel request for a reduction in rent made by an Auckland tenant recently. The agent for the landlord pointed out to the applicant, who was seeking a reduction of her weekly responsibility, that only a little while previously the rent had been reduced by half a crown, and that she could not claim anything further under the current legislation. The applicant had not yet played her trump card. In all sincerity, she remarked: “Well, I still think you should reduce it. because the wireless reception is very poor in the street.”

See our window's for the cheapest meat in Greymouth. The low pricef for quality meat will astound you Coupons as usual. Farmers’ MeaSupply, Marsden Road. Phone 456 — Advt. ,

Opportunity comes but once in * lifetime; grasp it -while it is hot. Today the opportunity arises for everyone who enjoys a “spot” of the bes-., to have it by saying “Dewar’s Pl®as 6 ’ at any leading hotel. Dewar’s Vrhisky can justly boast of being a leader amongst the world’s best Scotch, whisky, a reputation which genuinely befits this splendid product Distilled ■with scientific care, matured' only, by old age, Dewar’s possesses a distinctive palatable tang approved of by connoisseurs, and which is a glowing example of the blender’s art. If it an opportunity befitting the best of good spirits—-say > Dewars. Griffen and Smith, Ltd., Agents, Greymou-a, Westport and Hokitika. —Advt.

Freight railed through the Otira tunnel last week, amounted to. 9842 tons. For the corresponding week of last year, the total was 8711 tons, and in 1930, it reached 13,496 tons.

At the Ashburton Competitions Festival on Saturday, Misses Zita and Imelda Austin (Greymouth) were highly commended in the character duo, any age.

Liverpool mine will again be idle to-morrow, but James mine will work. Wallsend mine will work if sufficient, coal hoppers are available, and Dob son mine will probably be working also.

The vessel NgahUa, owned by Win. stones Ltd., of Auckland, is expfected to leave Lyttelton to-morrow, for Greymouth. On arrival she will, take a full load of Wallsend coal to Tauranga. Messrs Wild and. Robertson the agents. A new by-law of the Devonport Bo rough Council will tend to eliminate the itinerant vendor of small goods. A fee of 10s a year is now fixed for licences. Fruit and vegetables are nowbeing sold by parties who use motorcars and lorries to carry their goods. In future every man in a party, whether employer or employee, must pay the fee. The man who carries tins of boot polish in his pockets and the Maori woman who vends fferns and. flax bags, will disappear. There is no fee, however, for selling fresh fish. When running between Mawheraiti and Waimunga this morning, the Reef-ton-Greymouth. .train was delayed, through the leading wheel on a wag-

gon, carrying mining props, coming off, and causing the waggon to leave the line. Through passengers were conveyed by motor cars, to connect with the express, which was held at , Stillwater, for them, the express arriving at Otira 20 minutes behind schedule. As a consequence of the mishap, the Reefton train did not , reach Greymouth till 1.30 p.m., being 2 hours 4 minutes behind schedule. A case of actinomylcosis, an animal disease, which very rarely affects hib man beings, is recorded in last week’s Canterbury and Westland district notifications of infectious diseases. The disease commonly affects cattle and horses, and is called “wooden neck.**. This particular case resulted from contact with infected cattle. Eight other reported cases of disease made the week’s notifications particularly light. Canterbury:—Scarlet fever 1, Diphtheria 1, Tuberculosis 5, Erysipelas 1, Actinomylcosis 1. There were no., notifiable cases on the ; .West Coast during the past fortnight, but 'one death occurred, from tuberculosis.

At a special meeting of the Cobden Town Board held last evening, when there were present: Commissioners T. H. Jones (chairman), R. Marley, F, L. Turley and J. A. Frederic,, a resolution was passed to strike the rates ior the year commtencing April 1, 1932. On the motion of Crs. Frederick and Marley, it was resolved that the rates, a total of 1/5 in the £, be struck as follow: A general rate of nine and seven-sixteenths pence in the £; a hospital rate of four and seven-eighths pence in the £; a street lighting rate of one penny farthing.in the £; and a special rate of one and seven-six-teenths pence in the £. > .

Just landed, the latest H.M.V. and Gulbransen Radio Sets. Ask for a demonstration. A. E. Kilgour, Radio Gramophone and Music Deale", Beath’s Buildings, Mackay Street, next to Beck and Co. —Advt.

Thieves have been particularly busy in this district since Friday (says yesterday’s Christchurch “Sun”), there being no fewer than nine instances of breaking and entering homes and shops and one of attempted entering. Nine pillar-boxes were also broken open and robbed, while there were also two thefts from motor-cars and the theft of a motor-car and a motorcycle. Some ,of the thefts were extremely daring, two occupied homes being entered and robbed, and at a home in Kilmore Street, a thief, when trapped upstairs, made a dangerous lean of 20ft to'the lawn and escaped. A Press Association message from Christchurch, this morning, stated: Since Sunday, a thief has rifled thirteen postal boxes at various points in the city. Evidence would indicate that his haul on Sunday, if he had any, was very small. Yet again, last night, he attacked a number of boxes smashing the doors and forcing the locks. An indication of the daring of the thief was the fact that two of the boxes forced were within a radius of a few’ hundred yards of the central police station. It is not yet known how much of value was secured. Books for Cubs, Brownies, Gift Guides, and Scouts. “The Patrol System for Girl Guides,” 9d. “Hand Book for Brownies or Blue Birds,” 9d. “The Girl Guide Laws,” 1/6. ' “The Scouts’ Book of Observation,” 9d. “Scouting Games,” 2/-. “The Gitl Guides Book of Plays,” 3/6. “Girl Guide Games,” 1/6 ‘‘Drill for Girl Guides,” 1/6. “The Totem Talks,” 1/9. “Patrol Calls and Signs,” 2/-. “The Scout Law,”- 9d. Postage Free. Procurable at B. Dixon's Tainui Street.—Advt.