General News

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1949, Page 6

General News

Centennial Stamps

Entries in a competition for designs for a special set of four postage stamps to commemorate the centennial of Canterbury Province will close on Saturday, said a Post Office official in Wellington today. The stamps are to be issued on August 1, 1950. A special selection committee will judge the designs and £5O will be awarded for each accepted design. — (P.A.)

Telephone Fault Some 150 subscribers to the Greymouth telephone exchange were unable to call the exchange on Sunday morning, as a result of an electrical fault that” developed in the switchboard shortly after 10 o’clock. After attention by the department’s technicians, normal services were restored some two hours later at 12.20. Apart from the 150 who could not obtain a connection, subscribers generally were not affected by the fault.

Missing Woman Though it is now more than a week since she left her home at Mill street, Westport, Mrs Mavis Ann Hateley is still missing. In spite of police inquiries no information as to her whereabouts has been obtained, and no one *has reported having seen her since she left her home on Easter Sunday evening. An eyeshield similar to that worn by the missing woman was found last week on the esplanade by the Buller river, and the police are now keeping a watch on the shores of the river and nearby beaches, though no regular patrol has been instituted.

Medicine As Beverage “In facetious mood one would think the community was drinking medicine as its main beverage,” said the grand master of the Manchester Unitey Independent Order of Oddfellows, Mr W. B. Brown (Wellington), in his annual report to ths twenty-third movable conference of the society at New Plymouth. Mr Brown said that the expansion of “free medicine” since its initiation in 1942 was causing alarm. He quoted a rise in cost from £563,000 to £1,558,000 and an increase in prescriptions from 3,500,000 to 6,200,000, and added: “This society knows that social, security must be closely guarded or it may cause concern.”