WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 21 December 1920, Page 5

WESTPORT NOTES

Own Correspondent^ Mrs Gillespie and her two children returned to Westport by the last trip of the Koniata. from Wellington, after throe months 'holiday spent in the INorth Tslan T. Miss Mary Scluvdick is being married in Wellington at the e:itl of the month and will pay a visit to Westport in the New Year. Miss it. Schart ick leaves at the end of the week tobe present at the marriage. Miss Sadie Shodgrass was an rut ward passenger by the Koniata fur Wellington en route to the. Auckla.ul district to spend her summer holidays. The Koniata which left for Welling ton during the week-end was fully hooked up with passengers, mostly those bent on holiday making, in the North Island. A number of students from St Mary's College left Westport during the weekend to spend the annual summer vacation at their respective homes. Gossip floating round towu runs to the effect that -quite a lot of names will be mentioned in connection with the recent arrest of a youth accuesed of misappropriating sums of money on their journey through the local posi ivnd telegraph office. The mentioning of names does not suggest for one inomont that anyone else is implicated in the affair, but rumour will have it that the youth's story is gnuig to throw light. on a number of side shows that might prove to be the contributing causes or the attendant circumstances leading up to tho unfortunate happening. - The Buller Hospital and Charitable Board held its last 1920 meeting a* the County "Chambers on Friday last. The sitting was an all-night one and just a.s the quiwter to 12 chime struck Concillor Fox proposed, and it was carried unanimously that the Board send Christmas and New Year geeUugs to the staff and the patients iv the hospital and also to the inmates a»cl those associated with the Old People's Home. The successful applicant to the post, of night sister at the local hospital intimated to the Board at its last meeting that she was unable to keep t!ie appointment owi-ig to have been oidered a lo.ig rest. One of the members remarked that th long rest was that she going to be married. ° DvV. L. Foote a<t the H. and C. A. Board meeting on Friday night:— My opinion is that the time is coming when the medical profession will be natio.iali-ad "ttople who cannot ntiord to p iy for treatment in he public hospitals should get. it free withoui any account being sent them, lnose who can afford to pay, ouglU t o nay and if they don*, the account shoukl'bf put'inu, the hands of a <Ku>t collector. The members and officers of <he Westport Borough Council have issued printed Christmas a.id New Year Gieetiiia; ca-rds. . . •,he »rass in the central portiou of ! Victoria Square was recently cut wiUv I :l machine from Snodgrass Brother s l!Wlll , Oiowaiti at a cost of £1 Uh bd. " The Wesport Volunteer Brigade have ■t^ked the Borough Council to give them permission to use the municipal baths after early morning -practice U Victoria Square. Who could deny the volunteer -fire firghters a cool dip swter their Jieated exercise in the sv.lUy atmosphere of the last few summer m ornings?-only "Old Nick himself. The recent increased telegraphic rites is going to have a slumping etfect'on this year's P. O. takings ior Christmas greeting telegrams; a.id likewise those for every other year snrceeding it. Many people used lo take a. delight in droping a fw sixpences during yuletide m the way mentionW, but nowadays their doub.ee is not quite so easily p.cked up Most folk, other than those who nvve mor.ev to bur.i, will cut out the telegraphic form of communication and henceforth dispatch their vnrd* "> greeting a little earlier in the year, •Tnd per medium of the postal delivery 'secure for 2d or 3d, the result . dejircd "Since the foregoing was vntten the Telegfnph Department has announcd that Christmas peeting te.e grams may be sent for mnepence n stead of the usual charge of one shilling. To secure this concern, however the public are asked to accept the Department's commonplace stereotyped. "Merry Chnrtma. ««id Happy New Year" message. It m.». s^soma people to employ the „sii« everyday jog-trot expression, but no good to those who have any lending towards originality.