REEFTON NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1944, Page 2

REEFTON NOTES

[OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.!

REEFTON, September 13: • The following appeals were heard at a sitting of the Armed Forces Appeal Board, held at Reefton on Tues- ' day’ Mr W. Meldrum was chairman, and’ Mesrs P. J. O’Regan and A J. Panther were members. —Burke s Creek Collieries, for leave to adopt appeals for E. E. Barnett, M. Williams, mine truckers; D. R. Lines, F. p.. O’Flaherty, E. W. Loughnan, P. Brazil, coal miners.—All granted and adjourned sine die. Director ol National Service and Burke’s Creek Collieries for review of •extension of release from Air Force of J. J. Morris, engineer.—Adjourned sine die. E. T. Murcott, for review of release from camp as a mine timber cutter (personal appeal).—Adjourned sine die. Blackwater Mines Ltd. for review of release from camp of L. Stephens, miner.—Adjourned sine die. Dauntless Coal Co. for E. A. Cohen, miner. —Adjourned sine die. Royal Coal Syndicate for J. Bolitho and G. Turner, miners, application for leave to adopt.—Granted and adjourned sine die. Terrace Coal Mine for A. N. Bolitho, horse driver.—Stood down till next sitting at Greymouth. Private Roy Cairns, 2nd N.Z.E.F., who has been spending leave with his mother, Mrs W. Cairns, Reefton, was entertained by members of the Reefton Patriotic Committee and presented with a gift parcel. The condition of N. B. (Joe) Griffin, married, of Reefton, who was admitted to the Reefton Hospital on Tuesday morning as a result of injuries received, when he was crushed between a motor lorry and wall on Tuesday morning, was reported by the Hospital authorities late on Tuesday night as unchanged. AUCKLAND - COALSHOPeTAGE AUCKLAND, Sept. 13. The hklihood of a complete shutdown in the supply of gas at the end of the present week, owing to the shortage of coal, was announced by Mr. R. Worley, manager of the Auckland Gas Company, to-day. In order to meet the position, the Company is imposing a restricted supply from this evening and is prohibiting the use of gas for industrial purposes. In a telegram to the Prime Minis-' ter, to-day, Mr. V. J. Larner, chairman of directors of the Gas Company said he understood the only reserve stocks remaining in Auckland were at the railway dump, which the railway refused to release. “For your information, much of the coal supplied ! to the Company for a considerable time past has been wet and deficient in gas-making qualities. In fact our - conclusion is that anything that is black i« good enough for the gas industry, and the better grades of coal are diverted into other channels Our domestic consumers have been outrageously treated by constant restrictions and stoppages compulsorily forced upon them during the past six months, to say nothing of the loss and inconvenience suffered by industrial consumers.”