LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Only a few returned soldiers attend ed a meeting called by the Mayor (Mr A. B. Spiers), at Kumara, for the purpose of forming a territorial platoon and the meeting lapsed.

The annual tour of inspection of the borough will be made by members of the Greymouth Borough Council, tomorrow week, June 28. One of the chief purposes of the tour is to inspect work in progress and proposed.

A contract has been let by the Public Works Department to C. N. Page, Ltd., Greymouth, for the construction of a footbridge over Carew’s Creek (Mitchells Falls Track). The contract price was £l6l/2/9.

Freight hauled through the Otira tunnel last week, from west to east, amounted to 14,037 tons, compared with 14,345 tons in the' corresponding week of last year, and 12,826 tons in 1937.

As a contractor to the Grey County Council, Mr. W. Arnott, has completed tho additional span at Bray Creek bri.ige, on the BrunneK —Blackball road, and his work on the construction of a bridge of one 25ft. span over Evans Creek, on the Mitchell’s —Haupiri Junction road, is also nearing completion. Protective work at Barrytown, where the sea is again encroaching on the highway, is. being carried out by the Council, it being necessary to undertake temporary measures to keep the road open until the proposed deviation nearer the hills is complete/!. The old bank at the edge of the road has been completely cut out by big seas, and the worst feature is that the beach is being continually denuded of sand and shingle, there now being deep water close to the road, where formerly there was a hard, shelving beach.

New Books and Reprints at B. Dixon’s, Ltd., Tainui Street. “Song of Years” by Bess Streeter Aldrich 9/6 (Gd); “Who Pays?” by M. Mitchell, 7/6 (6d) ; “Outside the Law in New Zealand,” by 0. Belton, 4/6 (4d); “On the Edge of the Primeval Forest,” by A. Schweitzer, 2/9 (4d); “English Cavalcade,” by W. J. Blyton, 10/6 (7d); “On Leaving School,” by Lord Wakefield. 2/9 (4d); “Vigilantes,” by Sir Norman Angell, 1/- (2d); Poems of Francis Thompson, 2/4 (4d); “How to Plan Your House,” by M. S. Briggs. 12/6 (7d); “Modern Furniture,” 5/6 (7d). Postages in brackets. —Advt.

Consistency is the secret spirit of success and one of the most successt'ul consistent “Spirits” is Dewar’s imperial Whisky. All those good qualities of fine, matured whisky are found in Dewar’s, and this is the reason it is so consistently called for

throughout the world by judges of good whisky. Man is gifted with a very sensitive taste when choosing his eatables, wearables etc., and why not use that same good taste in the choice of his drinkables, and drink the best. Messrs. Griffen and Smith, Ltd., Distributors, Greymouth, Hokitika and Westport.—Advt.

At an executive meeting of the Buller Labour Representation Committee, held last evening, Mr. J. M. Fairbairn, President, was nominated, to fill the vacancy on tno Westport Borough Council, caused by the death of Mr. E. R. Fox.

The Greymouth Harbour Board’s dredge Mawhera, which recently returned from overhaul at Wellington, is now engaged in cleaning up isolated patches of shoaling at the wharf berthages. Provided favourable weather is experienced, it is expected that she will complete this work by the end of the month.

The first of the K type of locomotives, made at Hillside (Dunedin) and to be. used on the Christchurch-Ar-thur’s Pass line, was scheduled to leave Christchurch at 1 p.m. to-day, on its first test under load, for Springfield, and will continue to Arthur’s Pass to-morrow. The test will be 1 under the supervision of Mr. R. Angus, locomotive superintendent from head office, and Mr. .1. Binsted. the Canterbury locomotive engineer.

By the election of a doctor! as Dep-uty-Mayor last evening, Ashburton is the first town in the Dominion to have doctors filling the positions of both mayor and deputy-mayor at one time. Dr. G. I. Miller was elected: Mayor at the municipal elections last year, and is the first doctor to be Mayor of Ashburton. Dr. J. Conner, another medical practitioner in the town, who has been on the council for six years, was last evening elected Deputy-Mayor, and it is believed that the appointments constitute a position unique in New Zealand.

The town of Thames, like Greymouth, has decided to erect a women’s rest-room as a Centennial Memorial, and, therefore, some indication of what is proposed in Thames should be of interest. According to the Thames “Star,” the room is to be erected in the centre of the town, and will be up-to-date in every respect. It will contain heating appliances for making tea, etc., a lounge room with fireplace, and a room for leaving parcels, among other facilities. The building will be in brick or reinforced concrete.

During shunting operations on the Greymouth wharf, this morning, an F class engine was completely derailed when it was negotiating a set of points close to the s.s. Tees. Apparently the points were split and the weight of the engine caused one of the rails to turn, with the result that the rear wheels swung out several feet from the track. The derailment blocked the loop at the side of the Tees and caused a slight delay in loading operations. The difficulty was later overcome by shifting the vessel slightly, enabling the. trucks of timber to be shunted in from the opposite side. It was expected that the engine would be restored to the rails this afternoon.

A motorist, Mr. Jack Murtagh, of Wellington, had a remarkable escape from injury., shortly, after neon on Saturday, when the car which he was driving ran off the main- road at Karoro, crashed through the fence along the railway, and ran down the Bank to the line. Mr. Murtagh escaped, without injury, and his- car was not seriously damaged. The exact cause- of the "accident is- not known, as the Greymouth police have- not yet received a complete report. Another accident occurred near the same spot ou Sunday evening, when a light motortruck," driven by Patrick Henry McGrath, ran into a cow on the- main road. ’ This accident was not attended by serious results, though the windscreen of the truck was shattered.

Unknown to motorists generally, and to one another, selected, members of the Automobile Association (Taranaki) will shortly act as observers of other drivers, and where they consider certain actions to be not in the interests of road safety, they will, report the actions and the car's number to the secretary of the association. A friendly letter will then be sent to the offender, drawing attention to his breach of the road rules. The head of the publicity section of the Transport Department (Mr. A. F. T. Chorlton), of Wellington, and the department’s inspector at New Plymouth (Mr. E. S. Summers) attended a meeting of the executive of the Automobile Association at Nevi Plymouth yesterday, and were enthusiastic about the proposals for a patrol.—Press Assn.

The first of the fortnightly euchre tourneys ini aid of funds for the new Sunday School -will be held in the Blaketown school gymnasium to-mor-row, at S p.m.—Advt.

Over one hundred 1 members and visitors from Greymouth, Runanga, Brunner, Kotuku, Ikamatua and Kumara were present at a reunion of the Blackball branch of the' Returned Soldiers’ Association on Saturday evening. Mr. G. Nuttall presided and Mr. T. Crankshaw, of Greymouth, was a guest of honour. During the evening, Mr. Crankshaw was presented with a smoker’s outfit, in recognition of his 1 services to the Blackball branch as delegate to the Greymouth Executive Council for the past ten years. Eulogistic references to Mr. Crankshaw’s work for the branch were made by several speakers. Tcasts honoured were as follow: “The King." “Silent. Comrades.” “The Association,” “Sub-Branches,” “Visitors,” “The Ladies,” and “The Musicians.” Items were contributed by A. Knowles’s orchestra, individual members of the orchestra, and Messrs. T. Jones and S. Kerr.

Don’t wait until the restrictions limit your choice of linoleums. Choose them now, pay a deposit, and C. Smith’s will hold them for you. Linoleums are available in 6ft, 9ft and 12ft widths in patterns to suit all rooms. C. Smith Ltd. —Advt.

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