GENERAL NEWS Frost In Greymonth This Morning

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1948, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS Frost In Greymonth This Morning

After moderate morning temperatures last week, a sharp drop occurred at Greymouth during the week-end, in spite of the sunny weather. The minimum temperature on Saturday morning, 41.7 degrees, was still below recordings of 46 degrees earlier in the week, but there was a drop of nine degrees to 32.7 vesterday morning and a further drop t0'30.3 degrees this morning. More sunshine (10.4 hours) was experienced at Greymouth yesterday than on any other day since last summer, but the maximum temperature during the day was surprisingly low, being only 57.6 degrees, as compared with 60.4 on Friday.

Losses On Railways A net loss of £415,953 for the period April 1 to July 24 was revealed in the abstract of the railways working account gazetted last week. Total railway operation showed a loss of £517,407. Miscellaneous and subsidiary services operated by the De'partment returned a profit M £101,454.

South Westland Supplies The Greymouth fishing trawler, Nile, is scheduled to leave tomorrow for South Westland, where she will discharge the second consignment of goods t-.nd motor spirit for district residents. This shipment is expected to give substantial relief to settlers and transport operators who have been placed in a difficult position as a result of a shortage of supplies, particularly oil fuel, following the delay in i-eplacing the Gael on the South Westland service. The Nile will probably return to Greymouth about, the end of this week.

Milk Conference Px-actically every local body in the Dominion will be represented at a conference of local milk authorities which will begin at Wellington tomorrow. It is to be held under the auspices of the Central Milk Council, and will be opened by the Minister of Health (Miss Howard). It is hoped that the conference will be able to standardise as far as possible the bylaws governing handling of milk and licence forms for all authorities in New Zealand. West Coast local bodies will not be represented at the conference.

Footballer’s Death While playing in a senior Rugby football match at Fraser Park, Timaru, on Saturday afternoon, a young man received what was thought to be a slight injury to the head. A few hours later he died at his home. He was Jack Kenneth Dunn, a single man, aged 22, the .son of Mr and Mrs John Dunn, of 16a White street, Timaru. After the match Dunn went to the home of a friend, where he was seen by a doctor and then taken to his home, where he was confined to bed. He died between 10 and 10.20 o’clock in the evening.—(P.A.)

Price Reductions Retailers’ fears that the unexpected change in the exchange situation would produce confusion are apparently being' borne out and there aie indications that in some competitive fields price reductions are to be •■forced" sooner than actually justified bv overseas exchange transactions. " A firm marketing a wellknown brand of English cream separator today advised its Greymouth agents that it has back-dated all of its recent invoices to the date of the Budget, making effective from August 20 a reduction in the price of its most popular model from £B2 12s Cd to £74 ss. Water Main Repaired

Repairs to the eight-inch water main serving Cobden wei e completed yesterday more quickly than expected and the supply was restored to Cobden about 2 p.m., after being cut. off at 8 a.m. When the mam was lifted it was found that there was a defective joint in the pipes, which had allowed a considerable quantity of water to escape. lhe broken main was situated under the railway . lines, between the Cobden bridge and the railways signal box, and both railwaymen and Borough Council employees were engaged on the work yesterday, a short section of track having to be lifted to give access to the water main.

Empire Games Venue The question of determining the venue of the 1950 British Empire Games will be decided by the New Zealand Olympic and Empire Games Association on Wednesday evening, when members of the Canterbury and Auckland promotion committees are to submit details of their plans. It is expected that the issue will be between Christchurch and Auckland, with the former possessing better facilities for track events and for accommodating competitor's and visitors (at Harewood and Wigram) and Auckland having the facilities lor swimming events at present not held by Christchurch. The Greymouth Amateur Athletic Club kas made representations supporting Canterbury’s claims to conduct the greatest'athletic festival ever to be held in the Dominion.

Puma at Auckland Zoo A statement that the puma at the Auckland Zoo would be “quietly disposed of” when new stock arrived, which was made recently by the curator, Lieutenant-Colonel Sawer, and was reported in American papers, has brought numerous letters from the United States pleading that (he puma be allowed to live out its allotted span. When it arrived ironi Die»o in 1931 it was only a lew months old and it is now claimed to be the oldest of its kind in captiyity. Two young pumas from San Diego are expected to leave San Francisco with other zoo exhibits in the Ala meda for Wellington on September 9() The question of accommodation nt’the Auckland Zoo will probably have a bearing on the hit lire oi the aged puma.—(P-A.)

Mr C W. Dunlop S.D.O.N.Z. optician is now visiting Greymouth and surrounding districts with his caravan consulting room and will v isit in tending clients by appointment, c/o Greymouth P.O. —Advt.

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