LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Inangahua Junction-Westport road will be closed at the 15|-mile peg between 10.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. to-morrow, to permit biasing operations.
An eleven-year-old boy was charged before Mr. G. G. Chisholm, S.M., in the Children’s Court at Greymouth, to-day, with moving a railway truck without authority. He was admonished and discharged.
The Coroner, Mr. G. G. Chisholm, will deliver his reserved verdicts concerning the deaths of the victims of the explosion at Kaye and Party’s mine, at the Coroner’s Court, at Greymouth, on Thursday morning.
Mr. J. O’Brien, M.P., has received advice from the Minister for Finance, Mr. W. Nash, that there is no permit available for a patriotic trotting meeting, which the Westland Patriotic Council had hoped to have conducted at Greymouth, on March 24, in conjunction with the Westland T.C. meeting on March 22. Representations were made to Mr. Nash in regard to the permit, during his recent visit to the West Coast.
At a meeting of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild at Greymouth, it was decided to reopen the Guild. Last year the Guild sent 36 cases of clothing to refugees, and five of these have been lost. As the clothing is still urgently needed in the bombed areas, the Guild would be pleased to receive more clothing, also more helpers to work in the rooms, or to take the work to their own homes. The rooms are open every day except Saturday, from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Members of the Greymouth and Cobden Home Guard held a successful field day at the Omoto Racecourse, yesterday, under favourable conditions. In the morning, exercises in the use of cover and sniping were carried out, while the afternoon was devoted to the practice of attack on concealed positions. The attacking force was led by Commander H. H. Herring, and the defensive force by Commander T. Learmont. The operations were watched by Colonel C. E. Butcher, who was accompanied by Major Williamson, and at the conclusion he pointed out some weaknesses, but expressed pleasure at the general standard.
Boiling silks in a host of multistriped designs. The ideal cloth for pyjamas, blouses, shirts, etc; 29in. wide and all fast colours. Now 1/3 yd. C. Smith, Ltd.—Advt.
• New stocks of white wools now procurable at C. Smith’s. Paton’s super Scotch, 2,3, and 4-ply fingering 1/5 per ounce skein. Petone and Aotea 3-ply fingering lid per skein. —Advt.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1941, Page 6
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