LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1934, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fine weather P 1 ’ e y ails J^ v the a t O the tacular exhibition m the afternoon. There were 550 passengers on the ™ t train from the Ota I* - about 580 on the second tiain, t om the Reefton line, including large numbers from Greymouth.

In reply to inquiries, the information is republished that the g Summer Time Amendment Act , Pissed-last session extended the period £ om the third Sunday in March till the last Sunday in April. This mer time will start earlier than usual as the same Act fixed the commencing date as the last Sunday in September, in place of the second Sunday in October.

, How fit players help Rugby Union finance was illustrated by • • Prentice, chairman of the Wellingto Rugby Union’s management committee, at the annual meeting of dele °ates The accident account, he said, was not so heavy as in some previous vpors and it was due, he considered, to the fact that players devoted more X to training and were more fit for their engagements. l am satishec in mv own mind,” he added, that fit players make for fewer injuries than the unfit and half fit players.

A Sydney cablegram stated that an annual prize of a M y jj of fiction is being o , ff ® r ; d Prior, in memory of his father, -1 S H. Prior, late editor of the Bulle tin.” It will'be known as the S H. Prior Memorial Prize. Entrants will be restricted to bona fide ,. rosld ® persons born in Australia and N Zealand, and the British South Pacific Islands. Entries for th ® fl ™ toO ™D e ' tition will close on June 6, 1935 Ihe successful works will be published.

Quality goes clear through every piece of our furniture. Some furniture is made to look good, in order to sell it, but such is only surface deep. Our furniture derives its surface beauty from the inside, just as a good complexion is the visible indication to sound health. Deep down under the surface in the parts you can’t seo, the quality of our furniture has its foundation. Its quality goes sheer through. When you invest in our furniture you are buying lifetime service and satisfaction. S. • Burnett White, West Coast’s High Grade Furnisher.—Advt.

It matters little where you spend your Easter holidays, even at home you can spend an enjoyable time with those genuine old friends, the soda fountain and a bottle of* Dewar s Imperial Whisky, and even if you should go for a short spin a bottlo of this fine old spirit will add greatly to the pleasure of the trip. We say Dewar’s because it is world-renowned for purity and maturity and we know it will be approved by the most critical judge. Dewar’s can be obtained at all leading hotels. Griffin and Smith, Ltd., agents, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Westport.—Advt.

A veterans’ challenge race over 50 yards took place at Victoria Park last evening. ’ Conceding'a handicap of ten yards, J. Williams failed by half a yard to beat A. Anisy.

The new school buildings at Runanga are to be built in wood, and the job is a rather extensive one, as all outbuildings and dental clinic are included in the contract. Tenders will close in Christchurch on Thursday.

As we have sold our business to Mr C Leopold, all accounts owing to us must be paid to Mrs M. Mayo, Confectioner, 58 Tainui, Street, on or before April 10. After this date all unpaid accounts will be handed to our solicitors. Mayo’s Grocery Store.— Advt.’ .

“This has been the worst month for some time with travelling unemployed,” reported the relieving officer (Mr H.' Kidson) to . yesterday’s- of the Nelson Hospital Board. “There has been quite an influx of young .meh to the district seeking apple,, hop, and tobacco work, and a number from the North Island have found themselves hopelessly stranded,” he stated. In good 'times a fair field for the employment of outside labour, is offered in the hop gardens, orchards and tobacco plantations, but during the past few years the seasonal work in these industries has not been great enough to absorb the local labour offering; with the result that those who have coihe from other places seeking work have invariably been disappointed and find themselves stranded.

It was reported by the -Hokitika “Guardian,” yesterday, tiiat ‘Mr A. Cuthush had on view an unusual fish, that was caught with a herring hook at the mouth of the river on Thursday evening. The fish was 22 inches long, of the shape of a.lamprey, and not more than three-quarters of an inch across at its widest part, being almost round, tapering slowly to the tail. It had two fins, one near the tail end the other some six inches further along the body. The mouth was under the head, and round, not as large as a sixpence, and appeared suckershaped. There were seven air holes on each side of the body, near the head, which was two inches long, and there appeared to be no scales. The fish was of a colour very much like that of a salt-water eel.

Brunner Sports Club:—Sports Meeting Saturday next. Running, Jumping, Highland Dancing. Grand Openair Concert and dance on the ground at night.—Advt.

Describing the vicissitudes of sheepfarming on the Marlborough high country in the winter time, a witness in the Supreme Court this week declared that snow slides or avalanches were the main source of stock losses. In one season he lost 60 per cent, of his wethers when they were overwhelmed’by snow slides. “In that class of country anywhere but on the downs is a death trap, and sheep are lost in their thousands. It would not matter what it was—it could be elephants —but they would be buried and smothered by the snow, which comes down in a mass when rain falls after heavy snow or a sudden thaw occurs. In 1928 practically the whole of the Muller slipped in avalanches and wiped out many sheep.’’ “Do these snow slides ever destroy the rabbits,„ asked His Honor. “No. Your Honor, the witness replied; “they’re not on that part of the country.”

As a protest against the passing by the Justices of the Peace Conference, of a resolution favouring sterilisation of the eugenically unfit, Hon. W. Carrington, though retaining his Justice s commission, has resigned from' the Auckland branch of the Association. “The legislative results of hysterical eugenic agitation,” states Mr Carnngton, in his letter to the Registrar, will be tyranny and disregard of personal liberty, by means of this arbitrary State Inquisition, without which the enactment would be unworkable. Mr Carrington states that the classification of unfit is a very wide one. The object of the Association,” he adds, “is repugnant to the Christian foundation of our country’s laws, and traditions of justice, tantamount to changing from the worship fo God to the worship of man.” —Press Assn. An instance of dangerous driving was witnessed in Mackay Street, last evening, at about 8.5 o’clock. A motoi lorry careered along at about 30 m*les an hour, swaying from the centre of the street to near the kerbside. The pace at which the lorry was travelling, and the sudden sweeping turns made by it, tended to discount the theory of a mechanical defect in the steering wheel. A line of cars standing along the parking place from Beck’s store to the intersection of Boundary Street, left insufficient space for the driver, and one of the stationary cars received a thump on the rear bumper. The lorry continued over Boundary Street, and along Gresson Street, to swerve up against the footpath near the Police Station, where it came to rest, after a fortunate escape for those riding in it. The absence of pedestrians and other vehicular traffic in the street at the time made it easier for the lorry to secure an uninterrupted run, but’ for the glancing blow, against the stationary ear, whose owner is probably still wondering how it came ’ about that his bumper received such a displacement. C. Smith’s, Ltd.,. Greymouth, have landed a new* shipment of seagrass rugs in attractive designs, and colourings, sizes 24x48, 3/6; 27x57, 4/3; 36x72, 6/9; 48x84, 10/6.—Advt. A large selection of hard-wearing striped coir matting, always in stock, at C. Smith’s, Greymouth, 18in wide, 1/11; 22>in, 2/3; 27in, .2/9; 36in, 3/6; ready-bound mats 27inx54in. 5/11 each. —Advt.

Hand Books you may want:—“Elocution arid Gesture;” by Hasluck, 3/6; “The Art of Public Speaking,” by Bell, 3/6; “Public Speaking,” by Duncan, 1/6; “Elocution and Voice Production,” by C. M. Cree, 1/6; “The Best. Dramatic Poems,” 1/6; ' “The Best Recitations for Ladies,” .1/9; “The Best Dramatic and-Sentimental Recitations,” 1/9; “The Best Recitations for Children,” 1/9; “Sixty Best Humorous Recitations,” 1/6, postage •3d extra each, at B. Dixon’s Ltd., Tainui Street. —Advt.