GENERAL NEWS CREW VACANCIES ON COLLIERS FILLED

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1946, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS CREW VACANCIES ON COLLIERS FILLED

To complete the crews of three coastal vessels, two colliers and a timber carrier, it has been necessary to take men to Wellington from Auckland. The South Island ships concerned are the Kiwitea and Kaimai, due ,to load coal on the West Coast, and the Totara. The colliers have been waiting at Wellington since Saturday and the Totara has been delayed since Monday evening. The Kiwitea sailed this morning for Westport and it is expected that with the arrival of men from Auckland to-morrow the Totara will be able to sail for Westport and the Kaimai for Greymouth.—(P.A.) Millerton Mine.

The Millerton mine was idle on Monday because of the hot water equipment at the bath house being out of order, says the Westport. News.

No Trees Planted. There was no official observance of Arbor Day at Greymouth to-day. No arrangements had been made by the Borough Council to commemorate the day, and weather conditions prevented tree-planting being carried out at any of the Grey district schools.

Otira Gorge Road Unsafe. The Otira Gorge road to Canterbury was unsafe this morning, being very slippery, according to a report from the West Coast branch of the Automobile Association, Canterbury. Falls of snow in this area have again, been predicted. The Lewis Pass was open to cars using chains, but snow was again falling.

Marching Association. There was only a fair attendance at a meeting held in Greymouth last evening, called for the purpose of discussing the formation of a marching association in the district. It was called by the West Coast Basketball Association. After details had been explained to the meeting, club delegates undertook to obtain the recommendations of their clubs on the subject. West Coasters’ Club.

A well attended meeting at Hastings last Wednesday evening, decided to form a West Coasters’ Club, with membership open to all former West Coasters residing in Hawke’s Bay. The following officers were elected: Chairman, Mr. L. Potts; secretary, _ Mr. George J. Chamberlain; committee, Mesdames E. R. Chamberlain, J. Martain, I. Schaef, B. Williams, Miss E. Hambling, Messrs R. Weekes and L. Williams.

Empire Games. Every effort will be made to have the British Empire Games held in Christchurch as part of the Centenary celebrations of Canterbury in 1950. An assurance of this was given yesterday by the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr. E. H. Andrews), who referred to a letter from the Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, which suggested early application for the fixture and which offered to conduct the athletic programme. Power Failure.

A power failure lasting for over an hour affected that part of Greymouth between Albert street and the railway station this morning. A fault occurred in the feeder cable serving this section of the town and temporary cables were laid by the Grey Electric Power Board staff to enable repairs to be carried out. The board’s engineer, Mr. S. Trotter, said < that water in the cable may have been the cause of the fault, which had nothing to do with the general supply-

“Under Consideration.” “This is the usual stereotyped Governmental reply—‘under consideration.’ It will be under consideration. until the cows come home.” This comment was made by Mr. J. M. ■ Bunt at last evening’s ■ meeting of the Westland Progress League, when the Minister of Transport,.Mr. O’Brien, advised that Mr. Bunt’s scheme for the delivery of bread was “under consideration.” Mr. G. R. Harker said that local bakers could get no satisfaction from the Price Tribunal, though they were almost continuously in touch with it. Harbour Investigations.

“Before they leave New Zealand we will get some comments from them,” said Mr. E. W. Heenan, of Hokitika, chairman of the Greymouth Harbour Board, when referring at last night’s meeting of the Westland Progress League to the recent visit of the two English harbour engineers to report on West Coast harbours and harbour proposals. He stated that the comments of the league had been studied by the engineers, as well as various schemes- submitted by a number of interested local residents. He intimated that an interim report from the engineers would probably be supplied to the league by the Minister of Marine, Mr. O’Brien.

Nurses May Fly from England. The Government is trying to ar--1 range for some British nurses to be flown to New Zealand to meet the urgent demand for staff at mental hospitals. Others will travel in a ship leaving England shortly. This information was given in Wellington yesterday by the Minister of Health (Mr. Nordmeyer), who said efforts were being made to bring some of these nurses on a Sunderland aircraft of Tasman Empire Airways, which was due to leave England on its delivery flight at the end of this week to supplement the company’s service between Auckland and Sydney. The Government has offered to pay full passage money for 200 young single women from Britain. R.S.A. and Defaulters.

That the Returned Services’ Association was very worried about the type of work military defaulters might be doing how that they had been released was stated by the association in a letter to the Nelson College Council of Governors. The council was requested not to employ any defaulters on its teaching staff, so that the younger generation would not come under the influence of men who had refused to fight for their country during the war. The chairman, Mr. C. R. Fell, remarked that certainly there were no such men on the college staff to-day, nor did he think there were likely to be. He thought the council of governors would have to exercise great care and, entrusted as it was with the dare of other people’s children, the council would always require to consider the feelings of those people with the greatest respect. It was resclvc;d to reply that the association could rest .assured that the matter would receive careful consideration.

Mass will be celebrated on next Sunday, August 11,-at Kotuku, 8 a.m., and at Rotomanu, 10 a.m. —Advt.