GENERAL NEWS REVISION OF GREYMOUTH JURY LIST

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 February 1947, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS REVISION OF GREYMOUTH JURY LIST

Officers of the Greymouth police force are at present engaged on the annual revision of the jury list for the district, checking the present list and making additions, where necessary, after interviewing new prospective jurors. When the police have completed their part of the task, the list will go before a meeting of Justices of the Peace for a final revision. It is stated that the existing list of jurors will be called upon, ’f necessary, for next month’s sitting of the Supreme Court at Greymouth.

Weather in January. Rain was recorded on nine days at the Granville Forest (Totara Flat) meteorological station during January, f°r a total fall of 3.9 inches. The heaviest fall on any one day was 90 points on January 9.

Paralysis Victim. The condition of the seven-year-old Hokitika girl who is a patient in the Westland Hospital suffering from poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) is unchanged. “The child is not yet out of danger,” the matron, Miss Ramsay, said this morning. No other cases have been reported in the district.

More Births at Greymouth. More births were registered at Greymouth last month than in any one month for the past five years. The total was 46, as compared with 31 in January of 1946. Increases were also recorded in the number of deaths, 17 as against 11. Fourteen marriage notices were issued, as compared with 11 in January last year, and four marriages were performed by the Registrar, as compared with two the previous January.

Pickets at Fruit Markets. Pickets are to be placed by the executive of the Auckland Retail Fruiterers’ Association round Auckland markets to warn retailers not to buy stone fruit carrying the container, charge of 4d, which has been imposed by auctioneers. A meeting of all retailers will be called at the markets to decide whether the container charge will be paid, and until a decision is reached the retailers’ executive will do all in its power to prevent retailers buying stone fruit. — (P.A.) Fowls Fed on Cream.

There have been times in the Chatham Islands when dairy produce has been so plentiful that poultry has been fed on cream, stated a doctor who lived there for six and a half years. He was illustrating, in an interview with the Wanganui Herald, the islands’ difficulties with lack of adequate transport to New Zealand. He considers that the Chathams could supply a large portion of the Dominion with produce if transport facilities were available. Contact with India.

In response to a suggestion by Mr. D. S. Kennedy, engineer to the Greymouth Harbour Board, information regarding harbour model investigations is to be exchanged between Greymouth and the authorities in India. Mr. Kennedy has received a letter from Mr. N. D. Gulhati, secretary of the Central Board of Irrigation in India, welcoming an exchange of ideas and requesting notes on the experiments already carried out on the harbour model at Greymouth.

Secondary Schools Reopen. The Greymouth Technical, Marist Brothers, and Convent High . Schools, and the primary departments at the Marist Brothers and Convent, reopened this morning after the summer holidays. The roll number at the Technical School is approximately the same as at the opening of the school last year, new enrolments almost balancing the withdrawals during the year. There have been no staff changes. The Marist Brothers roll, about 220 in both departments, also shows little change, but there was a big number of new enrolments at the Convent, about 30 in the primary and 35 in the secondary, making a total primary roll of 220 and between 80 and 90 in the secondary department.

Maunganui Will Sail Soon The Maunganui, renamed the Cyrenia, is expected to sail from Wellington in about 10 days for Suez, where she will be refitted for her new owners, the Compania Noviei a del Atlantico, a Greek company. The commonder, Cciptoin Chciv3l3nibos Dandouras, and key members of the crew have arrived by air to get the ship ready. The rest of the crew are coming by sea. The Maunganui came out of dock on Saturday after overhaul. The Maunganui is well known ■to two generations of New Zealand soldiers. She was the flagship of the convoy which took the Main Body to Alexandria in the 1914-18 war, and she made other voyages with troops from New Zealand. In the recent war she served as a hospital ship from the beginning of 1941 till last year. She made two historic peace-time voyages. The first was when she took many New Zealanders to Sydney for the big Anzac reunion in 1936, and the second was last year, when the New Zealand contingent for the London victory parade sailed to the United Kingdom in her. —(P.A.)

Tennent’s advise that their optician, Mr. J. Mann, will be in Hokitika on Wednesday, February 5. Appointments '■may be made by letter, or phone 83S. Tennent’s,. Revell street, Hokitika. —Advt.

Floral downproof sateens of super Quality. A fine range of pleasing designs. Width 31 inch; only 5/3 yd .—C. Smith’s. — Advt.