GENERAL NEWS DIVISION OF MOERAKI ESTATE FOR SETTLEMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 February 1947, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS DIVISION OF MOERAKI ESTATE FOR SETTLEMENT

Corriedale flocks throughout the South Island and a numbet in the North Island will benefit from the'introduction of blood from the New Zealand and Australian Land Company’s well-known Moeraki stud flock, which was sold at Burnside, Dunedin, yesterday. The company’s Moeraki estate will be subdivided in the near future for the settlement of former servicemen, and the entire stud flock was offered at auction, a complete clearance being effected. Buyers were present from both the South and North Islands, and the sheep will go to many different districts, including Taihape, Hastings, Blenheim, North Canterbury, Central Otago, and Southland, while a number will remain in the coastal regions of Otago. No sales were made to interests outside New Zealand. The top price realised was 125 guineas for a shearling ram, which was bought by Alexander Mclntosh, of Whiterock Mains, North Canterbury.—(P.A.)

The Paparoa Mine. The Government would decide whether to buy the Paparoa coal mine, in Westland, on. the receipt of reports from the Mines Department’s engineers, stated the Minister of Mines, Mr. McLagan, in Wellington to-day, in confirming that the mine had been offered to the Government. He. had arranged for engineers to report on its condition. —(P.A.) An Australian’s Visit

The Federal secretary of the Australian Seamen’s Union (Mr E. V. Elliott), of Sydney, arrived at Auckland yesterday by Tasman flyingboat. Mr Elliott, who is also a member of the central committee of the Australian Communist Party, will leave for Wellington by air to-day. He declined to answer any questions about the purpose of his visit. He said he was not going to meet officials of any other unions, and that he would be in New Zealand for a week. —(P.A.)

Anniversary Holiday. The holiday commemorating the anniversary of the province of Westland which fell on December 1, of last year, will be observed in the northern portion of the province, including Greymouth and Reefton, on Monday. Shops, offices and Government departments will close and no bread will be baked and no meat sold. Banks, however, will be open for business as usual, having observed, the holiday in December. South Westland, including Hokitika, will have its holiday on Monday week, February 24.

Westport and Sunday Pictures. When an application from the manager of Kerridge-Odeon Theatres, Ltd., for- permission to screen pictures in Westport on alternate Sundays came before the Westport Borough Council at a recent meeting it evoked a good deal of criticism and, after discussion, was refused. The council granted the request' of the women’s marching team for permission to hold a picture entertainment next Sunday evening. It was considered that the application was of a semi-charitable nature and entirely different from the theatre’s request.

Westport Water Supply. “A lot of people in the town think they are faced with a shortage of water, but that is not so,” said Cr. J. Kilkenny at a meeting of the Westport Borough Council when the town’s waler supply system and the forthcoming poll of ratepayers for the loan proposal for its improvement were being discussed. Cr. Kilkenny said that the trouble at the present time was that the mains were inadequate to carry the supply to meet the demand. The present water mains had been laid 45 years ago, and had now outlived their usefulness. They were in such a corroded state that in many areas only a trickle of water was able to pass through them, and to .improve the supply these mains must be renewed.

Mice and Lions. “I don’t believe Mr. Grant has ever been a mouse; he must always have been a raging, roaring lion,” said Mr. Keith Frampton, in moving a vote of thanks to Mr. A. B. Grant, secretary of the Canterbury Trades Council, after an address to the Canterbury Junior Chamber of Commerce in Christel lurch yesterday. In his address, Mr. Grant had said that one effect of the shortage of labour was that men who had once lived like mice could now talk like lions. Mr. Grant and Mr. J. Roberts, president of the Canterbury Trades Council, received an excellent reception. It was a thoroughly good-humoured meeting, although Mr. Grant spoke with the utmost frankness of his conception of the historic function of organised industrial workers to remove social direction from those who clung to outmoded systems of production and ownership. Mr. Frampton smilingly suggested that, if workers were in such a bad position after 11 years of a Labour Government, Mr. Grant might be well advised to change his political allegiance. There was an appropriate touch in the collection of fines, a rich harvest coming from members wearing red ties. The visitors were exempt.

The Greymouth races at Omoto tomorrow (Saturday) and Monday next start at noon. —Advt. About twenty fresh horses will be running at Omoto to-morrow (Saturday) and Monday.—Advt. . Exceptionally large fields are expected at Omoto to-morrow (Saturday) and Monday.—Advt. Greymouth Master Bakers notify there will be no bread baked or delivered .on Monday (Anniversary Day) .—Advt. ■ The Master Butchers of Greymouth and District will observe Monday next (17th.) as Anniversary Day. All shops will be closed. —Advt. Westport Competitions Society, Annual Festival, May 19 to 24, Vocal, Instrumental, Elocution, Dancing. Syllabus can be had on application to Robt. Francis Ltd., Greymouth and Hokitika. —Advt. Large bottles of Vok. Liqueurs. Special Australian sherry and wine. Large bottles of English cocktails suitable for parties and dinners, also gin and a few bottles of genuine French brandy, procurable Eft the Albion Hotel bottle store. —Advt.

Step into the New Year in Fashions from Whites. Be smartly, becomingly attired in styles that are as modern as this youthful 1947. Whites Corner, Your Fashion Centre.—Advt