WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 18 December 1920, Page 3

WESTPORT NOTES

The Westport Borough? Council is endeavouring to get Mr Birks, hydroelectric expert, t o come to Westport during his visit to the West CoaslT which is to tu-ke place before Christmas

The Buller County Council on -the .idvict* of its solicitor, (Mr A. A Wilson), is claiming £25 from the Westport Borough Council, for damage to one of the thoroughfares alleged to have , bee.i under "extraordinary traffic.'.'

A sijn board, with a "go slow" notice to motorists, is to be erected 'n the vicinity of the District High School as a safe-guard to the lives of little children while going -to and from their studies . ;

Between this and the New Year the Westport Garrison Artillery Volunteer Rand proposes holdinir several openpntertai.iments in Victoria. Spuave. Bandsmen are endeavouring' to raise sufficient funds to enable them to comnete in -the- Nelson Band contest, wVnh eventuates in the first quarter of 1921. The signal success of tli^ Garrison Band's performance at the Granity contest held recently, lias become a-n

inceptive to the men to "go one better" at "Sunny Nelson." The public now knowing the circumstances will respond whole-heartedly when the. time arrives.

■ West Coast local bodies a'"c endeavouring to have the price of jrold byoupht •ip to the current rate ruling i" the London and New York markets. When that eventuates miners here-abouts will receive £2 4s 4d per ounce more thsui tliey are getting at the present moment .

The Westport Borough Council is allowing its employees to cense work at noon on Friday 24th. This on account of the usual weekly half hohdav falling on' Christmas Eve.. • The heavy approaching footsteps or Father Christmas prompt shopkeepers to put their windows in seasonable fashion There are- signs'"of any amount in the way of greengroceries to meet fchtf demandp for -Christmas feastsA line of local grown tomatoes now in view in one of the shop windows va. PifrJmefe-ston Street, Us calculate*! tostartle all passers-by. If one a dozen or more years ago had said sucli lovely tomatoes could be grown in this district he would have been thoiSght a fit subject for a.i institution do-mi A local paper printed the following nara-iraph the other evening:— "A rock hundreds of feet high «* Glasseyo f Corbyvale, may be seen wi*",. hundred* of shells embedded in the cliff Olcl timers state that the. little hill wa* under the sea at ore time. ' tee.* ll ® , old chap that couTd recollect^sucb^ a . state of affairs would be a very old timer" indeed ! Probably «n old cove resurrected from the. pre-historic period! With a very little elementary knowledge of ohysica googr apjycgg toll us that the, finding of sea-shells h tl™ Inkier levels, is an indication Tint the land, rnnr-hiah and dry, **» at one time submerged beneath the sea Hok many years ago it is dit £lt to imagine.- The decomposed . state of the shells into hme forn>£Sn is oily one of a number, of WStions that would speak of the great from which it has beeinplensed to cnH something worth reproducing One rt , our local temnoranes is Dnlv be Wk ""lice winernmon.