GENERAL NEWS Eye Injury Caused By Flying Rope

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 June 1948, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS Eye Injury Caused By Flying Rope

Serious injury to an eye was received by Peter Eadie, aged 21, of Greymouth, an employee of Westland Transport, Ltd, when he was struck by . the end of a wire rope which snapped in two. Eadie was working at.the site of Burke’s Creek coal mine yesterday morning when a rope attached to a bulldozer snapped and one end recoiled and struck him in an eye. He was taken to the Inangahua Hospital, and his condition this afternoon was reported to be comfortable. First Offender

A statutory first offender for drunkenness, who was arrested in Greymouth last evening, was convicted and fined 10s, the amount of his bail, by Mr E. O. Henry, J.P., in tiie Magistrate’s Court at Grey mouth, this morning.

Coupon Collection The steady decrease in the number of meat and butter coupons deposited in the boxes situated in Greymouth and the suburbs, was continued last week. A total of 521 meat coupons was obtained from the collection while not a single butter coupon was surrendered. The previous week 648 meat and three butter coupons wore contributed.

Auckland Drivers and Communists In an effort to reinove the proCommunist influence from the union’s affairs and to re-establish the union on more democratic principles, a committee appointed by a section of the Auckland Drivers’ Union is petitioning for a Town Hall meeting. The purpose of the meeting, which is expected to be largely attended, is to consider the election of new officers. — (P.A.)

Former Grey Resident Killed A mechanic, Anthony Devlin, who was killed when struck by a taxi at Invercargill during the week-end. was well known in the Grey district, where he had been employed for a number of years. Prior to the war, the deceased, who was commonly known as Peter Devlin, was employed for some years by Kennedy Bros, as a mechanic. He was also widely known as a musician. He left Greymouth when he joined the R.N.Z.A.F.

Footballers Injured Two West Coast Fnigby representative footballers received injuries in the West Coast-Canterbury match at Rugby Park, Greymouth, yesterday afternoon, necessitating treatment at the Grey Hospital. Basil Mettrick, single, of Cobden, suffered concussion and was admitted to hospital . His condition today was reported to be satisfactory. Ronald Olsen, single, of Blaketown, suffered injuries to his ribs. Fie was treated at the outpatients’ department of the hospital. Explosives Used Blasting operations were carried out on the south breakwater at Greymouth this morning in connection with the renovation of the wall where the sea had undermined an area near the end of the structure. Explosives were used this morning to remove overburden and level out the section on the riverside where a subsidence occurred recently. Large concrete blocks manufactured by Harbour Board employees on the lagoon wharf are being transported regularly to the tiphead and will be used to provide a sclid face both at the site oi the subsidence and at the end where 25ft of material was lost after being undermined in recent storms.

Ski Tow At Arthur’s Pass The erection of a ski tow at Arthur’s Pass, which will take skiers about 400 feet above the floor of Temple Basin, was completed during the week-end by members of the Christchurch Ski Club. The low is powered by a 10 h.p. motor which was parried 1500 feet up a steep hillside, it has a vertical lift of about 500 feet, and its length is about 1300 feet. The steepest section is near the top, where there is a slope of 34 degrees. Skiers wear a special belt with a clip, which is clipped on the rope, and are then hauled to the top. There was insufficient snow during the week-end to make good ski-ing conditions, but there was sufficient for members to try the tow. It will be open again from the beginning of July. Diesel Sets Ordered “I have it on good authority that an order for five 400 k.w. diesel electric generating sets has been placed! through one of the Government’s favoured supply agents,” said the leader of the National Party, Mr Holland, at a meeting of the Auckland division of the National Party. “The arrival of this plant should help quite a bit in improving the present precarious position. Apparently th§ Government now agrees that we were right when we said on so many occasions that auxiliary plant is available for those who will order it,” added Mr Holland. “I am glad to learn that the Government has at long last acted on what the National Party has been advocating for years past so as to improve the position regarding the generation of electricity.” Visitors Return Sports teams returning to Canterbury after playing matches on the West Coast built up the passenger list on the special night express to Christchurch from Greymouth last nighc. The train which left Greymouth at 7.45 p.m. carried 352 passengers, but there were only 92 passengers on the train from Christchurch which arrived at Greymouth at 1.55 this morning. A report reached Greymouth last night that a rifle bullet had penetrated the window of one of the carriages on the train to Christchurch, near Dobson, but a police investigation at Otira established that a., small hole in the window had been made by a stone, which had possibly been flung from the wheel of a car at a point where the highway is parallel to the railway. No one was injured in the incident.

Tennent’s advise that their optician, Mr J. Mann, will .visit Hokitika Tomorrow (Wednesday). Appointments can be made by ringing phone 83S. Tennent’s, Revell street., Hokitika.— Advt.

Working hard, yet getting nowhere! There are many people who find them selves doing that. It may be a job with nothing in it. for the future—or it may be that week after week you’re slaving over the wash tub and getting nothing but a pain in the back. For the little you may save in cash in doing the family wash at home, “you are taking it out. of yourself.” Our work is so wonderfully done —our modern washing and ironing machines are not so hard on the laundry as the old fashioned scrub board. Phone 136. Depot: Sam McAra Mackay street, The Westland Laundry Ltd.-rr-Advt.