WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 22 December 1920, Page 6

WESTPORT NOTES

\Our Own Correspondent.)

WESTPORT, December 21. Mr and MrsF. Wood and family are camping out at Utopia beach for the summer months. Mrs C. Newman and Miss O. Schadick have established their summer camp at the OraAvaiti beach, in the.vi- I cinity of the golf links. j Miss Henu-jrsoii, Matron of the Deuniston Hospital, returned to the Hill yesterday (Tuesday) after' a week's^ holiday spent in West-port. Rev. Griffin, who is leaving Westport shortly on return to Christckurch, has made an oppropriate farewell gift to each of flic members of the Methodist Bible Class. Kcv. Alex Miller, M.A., returned during the week end from annual leave spent in the North Island. On her lust trip here from Wellington, the Komata brought several visitors from Australia. One of them was a daughter of Councillor R. Wcekes of Westport. Different men -have different opinions. At the Hospital meeting the other night one man said thfc Buller "District Hospital was ahead of 'the times. .Another man, in retaliation said, after seeing the hospitals away the local institution was enough to give a man u hc "pip." Th-3 Westport Public Library has had a greater during the .year than on any other previous year since its fshtblishnioiit. The number of l^oks haiioWl has been a record, and >the prots netted are greater than those any other foregoing similar period. This speaks voltiir.es for the public. who are coming- to recognise the worth oil our library and to avaii themselves \ of the pleasure a^d profit the inscitu- j lien affords. • j Mr D. McWha left overland for ] Nelson on Monday to engage in Rail- I "'&X Departmental work : at Ndlson. ' Mis MeWha and family axe- leaving at the end of the week -\» spend su iJ mu.r- , holidays in the same town. i Some difficulty is .being, experienced ? ?n finding suitable help for Matron Henderson at Denniston . Hospital. Tt was mentioned at the . last hospifcil meeting that it was ' clifficulf to ff et a •ained nurse to stay .for siuy length of tini-o on the Milt It is U ay wonder M-.hon one culls U, TO i nr i fe e prevailing j weather conditions and tW fr C ncral] environment of the localiiy? ' Oncf could almost compare^tho top of D'cn- 1 niston HilJ to the "R^oal Siberia." j