LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1936, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Liverpool mine will work tomorrow, but the Janies mine will be idle.

An amateur and novice boxing tournament will be conducted at Wallsend early in. March, by the newly-formed Dobson Tennis Club, to raise funds for the construction of two courts.

A suggestion that a reduction in fees be offered to a parent with three children boarding at the Nelson Colleges, met with the ready approval of members of the Council of Governors at this week’s meeting. “Tell him that if he sends six they can come for nothing,” commented one member.

The West Coast Herd Testing As sociation’s figures for January, 1936 were:—Number of cows tested 2063; average fat, 35.65; average test 4.5; highest herd, 45.55; ( lowest herd 20.82; highest cow, 77.0; lowest cow, 7.0.

With’over 800 passengers on board the Orient liner Otranto, arrived at Auckland yesterday from Brisbane, in the course of an excursion cruise. The ship will leave Auckland at midnight to-day for Wellington and Sydney.—Press Assn.

James Carter, a young man, was arrested yesterday afternoon at Reefton, and charged at the Magistrate’s Court, ..before Mr H. Morgan, S.M., this morning, with indecent assault on a female child, aged'll, at Reefton on Wednesday. He was remanded until this afternoon.—“ Star” Special Service.

The record number of stroked taken for one hole at the Maraenui golf links, namely 15 for the eighteenth hole, established by a local Government official, was beaten last Saturday by a local traveller (states the Hawke’s Bay Herald). He teed his ball at the eighteenth, addressed it and swung at it. He repeated this performance 11 times before the ‘‘wee sma’ ball” set out on its course toward the pin. Then, however, this golfer “went to pieces,” and after playing his twenty-second shot, he picked up his ball in a. state of mind bordering on collapse.

A pig shooting. expedition in the Matawai district recently by a. party of four from Gisborne had an unfortunate sequel both for the sportsmen and the station owner. The party (says the Poverty Bay Herald) obtained permission from the runholder to shoot over his property and when asked if they knew anything about pig hunting the spokesman replied that one of the party did. They were then directed to walk up a valley where they might find some wild pigs. Half an hour later the farmer' heard four shots and thought he would follow and see what luck the sportsmen were having. Imagine his surprise when he rounded a spur and found that the objects of the party’s shots had been his pedigree boar, breeding sow, and two baconers. An arrangement satisfactory to both parties was then made.

All Text Books for Primary School use are procurable at published prices at B. Dixon’s, Ltd.. Tainui Street. — Advt. ,

All lines in School Stationery for use in Primary and Secondary Schools are obtainable at bedrock prices at B. Dixon’s, Tainui Street. Only quality goods of British and New Zealand manufacture stocked.—Advt.

School Bags in cloth, canvas, or leather, and in all sizes and prices from 1/3 to 8/6. School Book Attache Cases in all sizes from 2/6 upwards. Lunch Cases in Fibrecane from 1/3 to 2/6 each. Best values are at B. Dixon’s, Ltd., Tainui Street.— Advt.

Let’s tell you about two extra specGf.. bargains! Good quality Locknit Vests for only 1/6 (usually 2/11), opera top style, and showing in apple, apricot, sky, black and white. Ladies’ Rayon Dressing Gowns in smart floral designs, usually 10/6, 12/6 and 15/6. Sale price 2/11. C. Smith’s Summer Sale. —Advt.

New Year hospitality will certainly call for the best whisky—therefore we earnestly recommend Dewar’s Imperial as the New Year Spirit. It can safely be said that each bottle of Dewar’s has seen several New Years before the lever is prised, and it is the ageing process that brings to Dewar’s that unique flavour which appeals so greatly to all men who value good matured whisky. Ask for Dewar’s at all hotels. Messrs Griffen and Smith, Ltd., Agents, Greymouth, Hokitika, and, Westport.—Advt.

Advice has been received that Miss Myrtle Roper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Roper, Beckenham, Christchurch, and granddaughter of Mrs. W. Williams, Fox Street, Cobden, has been awarded the Cowie Scholarship of £25 a. year, tenable for three years, at a secondary school. She is a former pupil of the Cobden School.

“Notwithstanding the busy life of America, my mind often turns toward the old West Coast,” says Mr. George A. Klowar, of 839 Leavenworth Street, San Francisco, in the course of a letter forwarded to the Greymouth Evening Star. “To anything that sounds like a laugh, or a song in the rain, my memory responds as. to an old refrain. Anything that looks like an old, wet lammie, too, transports me to the place where friends are true and hearts are warm; and the sight of a good old-fashioned, wholesome girl reminds me of the best girls in the world —the girls of the West Coast of New Zealand.” Mr. Klower’s words are doubtless well meant, and West Coast girls will not object to being described as “good” or “wholesome/’ but as for “old-fashioned!” It may be as well' for Mr. Klower that he is on the other side of the Pacific!

The Labour Government has now taken control of the Dominion and optimistic predictions are general, it being considered that there is now some real prospect of turning that famous “corner.” Business everywhere is improving and a healthier tone is apparent in the commercial world. There is no better medium of drinking a toast to the future than the deservedly popular Tintara Rich Port, an ideal “spot.” Messrs Griffen and Smith, Ltd., Agents, Greymouth, Hokitika and Westport.—Advt.

Big Find in Mackay Street. £3,000 Floor Covering Rush. Carpets, Rugs, Runners, Linoleums being dug out at never before prices. Join this sure dividend-paying claim, and remember that a room well-covered is more than half-furnished. S. Burnett White, West Coast’s High Grade Furnisher. — Advt.

Who would expect hats to be less than half price now? But it’s really true! Ready to wear hats usually 8/11 to 32/6 reduced to 3/11, 5/11 and 8/11;' You really ought to take a look at them. And that’s only one of the bun'lreds of bargains at C. Smith’s Sammer Sale.—Advt.