HOKITIKA AMENITIES FOR CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 December 1946, Page 4

HOKITIKA AMENITIES FOR CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND

(0.C.) HOKITIKA, Dec. 11. As a considerable sum had accrued from the W. J. Butler bequest, the Hokitika Borough Council at its monthly meeting decided to improve the facilities at the children’s playground in Cass square by the addition of swings, roundabouts, and slides, as' soon as the opportunity offers. Under the will of the late W. J. Butler, £lOOO was left to the council, for the purpose of providing such amenities, out of the income on the capital. The' Mayor, Mr A. R. Elcock, presided at the meeting, the following members being present:—Crs. S. G. Havill, S.G. Roberts, L. S. Ross, C. Caliari, D. Pettigrew, H. C. Peart, A. C. Armstrong and I. J. Preston. The Medical Officer of Health, Christchurch, forwarded the analyst’s report on seven samples of water from the borough water supply. The report stated that the water was of satisfactory chemical quality and no evidence of any bacterial contamination of importance to health was found in any sample. Arising out of an inquiry from the Hokitika branch of the Returned Services Association, it was decided to allocate extra land for additions to the soldiers’ cemetery at Hokitika. An application by H. R. Schroder for a taxi stand outside the Hotel Westland was granted. The abattoir report stated that stock slaughtered for the month of November totalled 21 cows, 18 heifers, 60 bullocks, 160 sheep, 7 lambs, 21 pigs, 3 calyes. Fees for the month were £72/7/5 as against £6B/5/3 in November last year. It was decided that the new bylaws should come into force as from January 1, 1947. At the conclusion of the meeting the season’s greetings were exchanged among the Mayor, councillors and staff. MILITARY CROSS PRESENTED.

A Military Cross, posthumously awarded to Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) William Camille Rutland, who was killed al El Alamein, was presented to the soldier’s father (Mr. 11. Rutland) by the Governor-Gen-eral (Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg), when he visited Hokitika last week. Captain Rutland was a member of the literary staff of the New Zealand Herald before enlisting in the Army, and was a brother of Mr. H. F. Rutland, secretary of the Canterbury Employers' Association, who was present at the function.

INCREASED WHARF CHARGES. The following amendment to bylaw No. 157, retrospective to November 1, was adopted, at a recent meeting of the Hokitika Flarbour Boaid. “Every person who shall use any wharf or wharves under the control of the board for the purpose of loading goods thereon, or for the purpose of shipping, any goods shall pay as wharf dues on such goods a late pei ton or portion of a ton, or pei cubic foot of measurement at the rate oi 5/- per ton inward and 5/- per ton outward. It shall be at the option ox the board to charge by measuiement or weight, unless specially specified, ■ and in all cases where goods are shown on the manifest as dead weight, or are charged on this scale, ’wharfage is to be charged on the | Sl “The following articles shalll be executed from the provisions above and charged for at the following rates—Timber, 6d a 100 supeihciai ■feet inward and outward; cement, ■4/- a ton, inward and outwaid, .motor-cars or ben'ton tare “ward and ouh a zine and oils, I/- a *> . 2/ _ a inward and on ward; wool, 2/ bale inward the charges Authority Price Investigation was given by the 5 Tribunal on November 5,194 b.