LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1942, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Before Mr. J. M. Bunt, J.P., at a sitting of the. Magistrate’s Court, this morning, a statutory first offender fox- drunkenness, arrested in Greymouth yesterday, was convicted and discharged.

National Savings investments at Greymouth this week totalled £5Ol 17/-, representing a deficiency of £l2O/3/-, the quota being £622. In the previous three weeks, Greymouth exceeded the quota.

All garages in Greymouth have undertaken to receive rubber, in connection with the salvage of waste materials. A comprehensive drive for the collection of rubber will be made, and an announcement as to the types of rubber required will be made shortly.

Some 300 passengers, the majority racegoers, travelled to Christchurch last evening by the special tram and mixed train, there being 226 on the former, which left at 6.40 and reached its destination about 11 p.m. In view of the demand for seats, resulting in the rapid booking-out of the iailcar, a steam service is to be substituted on Friday week.

The axiom that “it pays to advertise” has proved true in connection with the campaign in Greymouth to enrol women for the Armed Forces. As a result of the display advertising in the Press, Mrs. L. McGlashan has received a number of inquiries, ana five applications for service have gone forward—three for the Army and two for the Navy. It is noteworthy that country women are displaying a lively interest in the campaign and have submitted many inquiries.

It has been announced “that the houses being erected for miners at Dunollie, Taylorville and Brunner are to be for sale or for rent, according to the desire of the tenant. The conditions of sale will be the same as those in the scheme which the Mines Department has been operating for many years—a loan from the Department, repaid in rental. A start has been made on the erection of the houses at Dunollie, and a start was made last week at Brunner, where one house is almost ready for roofing.

The annual meeting of the Westland branch of the Surveyors’ Institute was held in the West Coast Old Boys’ rooms, Greymouth, last evening, Mr J. Mclntyre presiding over an attendance of the following members: — Messrs B. King, T. Learmont, H. Hutchinson, J. Thorn, and N. Parnham. The election of officers resulted: Chairman, Mr H. Hutchinson; secretary, Mr J. Thorn (re-elected); delegate to conference, Mr Hutchinson. Remits for submission to the annual meeting of the Institute at Wellington next month were discussed.

In a letter to the Secretary of the Greymouth branch of the Red Cross Society, the Wairarapa branch states that the cases of crockery and foodstuffs from Greymouth arrived in excellent condition and were most acceptable. The letter adds that the country people, especially, in the Wairarapa district have had a trying time. Some of those people, the letter states, are still unable to get into their homes, and are living in sheds and cooking in the open, while many of them lost all their crockery, jams and preserves.

In what was described by the Magistrate, Mr. T. E. Maunsell, as one of the worst cases of its kind he had had before him for 20 years, a boy of 14 appeared in the Children’s Court at Nelson on 16 charges of breaking and entering, and theft, and one charge of arson. Goods and money to the value of over £33 were stolen and damage to a building set on fire was valued at £442. The boy admitted the offences. The magistrate committed him to the care of an institution. A second boy of 14 who admitted breaking and entering premises was admonished and discharged. Another lad of 14 who admitted receiving a rifle from the first boy was warned of the seriousness of the offence and was discharged.

What do you do on Wednesday evenings? If it’s an odd night, then join in the happy band at the Blaketown Hall, and make it the night of the week. —Advt.

The result of the postal ballot conducted to elect delegates to represent the various districts on the electoral committee of the New Zealand Meat •Producers’ Board has been announced. The South Island delegates are: Marlborough-Nelson-Westland district, H. J. Stace (Spring Creek); North and Mid-Canterbury district, R. G. Gerard (Rakaia), G. H. Grigg (Hororata), E. Hay (Pigeon Bay); South Canterbury district, H. B. S. Johnstone (Otaio); Otago district, D. H. Cockburn (Queenstown), W. Doig (Papakaio), J. D. Revie (Heriot); Southland district, J. Cowie (Balfour), G. A. Hamilton (Lumsden), H. P. Mclntyre (Gore). The view that lack of parental control was the chief contributary factor to the juvenile delinquency being complained of throughout the Dominion was expressed to the Canterbury School Committees’ Association by the senior inspector of the Canterbury Education Board (Mr. S. Irwin). Motion pictures were in themselves not harmful, but the effect of children being allowed to attend too frequently had serious consequences. Answering a question, Mr. Irwin said he noticed no particular benefit where Bible training was given, but he considered that this training would not show visible results until later years. The main difficulty was that many young parents were both working, and the children had no home life.

Don't forget the West Coast Fox Trot Championship at Taylorville, Saturday next, Augus't 22. The year’s outstanding ball.—Advt.

“My advice to relatives and friends of prisoners of war is that the best means of sending food is by the standard parcel from the Red Cross,” said Lieutenant-Colonel A. A. Tennent, who is visiting Invercargill, after being repatriated from Italy. He said that the food included in these parcels formed a very welcome addition to the camp diet. They included such things as dried milk, bully beef, salmon, herrings, packets of raisins, and cakes of chocolate. Soap was another useful article to include in a parcel, because soap was difficult to get in Italy at present. Warm clothing would be welcome for though the Summer was hot in Italy, the Winter was very cold. He went on to say that there was small chance of parcels from the Red Cross to prisoners being rifled, but the fate of parcels addressed individually was uncertain.

Owing to the shortage of sausage casings we are selling a new line of sausages. Try them. The usual sausages and saveloys are still on sale. — The Mawhera Meat Co.—Advt.

Town and country ladies make a rush to White’s Big Clean-Up Sale of Fashion Goods. In many cases j to | orice and less. Half usual Coupons. No Coupons for Millinery. You will lose if you do not call at White’s Fashion Corner early.—Advt.

Overheard in the Bus. Conversation of two ladies. “My word'Mrs. K , you are looking well!” “Yes, Mrs. J , I have never felt better since sending my washing to the Westland Laundry. It saves all that Washday Drudgery.” Westland Laundry Ltd., Greymouth. Phone 136. Depot. 27, Albert Street.—Advt.