HOKITIKA NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1944, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

[OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

HOKITIKA, Sept. 12. The Bond Wagon gave an entertainment in Weld Street yesterday afternoon. In spite of a bleak wind a good crowd saw the programme through. A number of bonds were sold.

Mr. O’Brien, visited Hokitika yesterday and heard a deputation on various matters. The Mayor, Mr. A. R. Elcock presided. The main business was the necessity for another doctor at Hokitika. After this week there will be only one doctor for ten thousand people including the hospital. Mr. O’Brien promised to contact the Minister of Health immediately on his return to Wellington.

Mr. E. W. Heenan stressed the acute shortage of houses in Hokitika and asked that urgency be given the provision of more State houses for Hokitika including pensioners’ cottages.

The matter of the new aerodrome was broached by Messrs Elcock and Heenan and a request that full consideration be given by the Government and the best site chosen. On behalf of the Businessmen’s Association, Mr. W. J. Richards gave Mr. O’Brien particulars of an applications for a bacon curing license which had been refused a returned soldier on the grounds that the district was already well served. Besides the point of rehabilitation there was the development of the district to be considered.

Mr. O’Brien promised to investigaW.