WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1921, Page 3

WESTPORT NOTES.

(Our own Correspondent). A ictoria, Square, is in splendid condition fur football, being nice and dry and .the footballers are faking advantage Jof the moonlight •eve'aings to • get themselves into form for tho coming rep. matches. Air Jim Lull', the caretaker of the Square ,has made an idea-1 touch line round tho football field, and I am sure when other football clubs hear of it, they wil ladopt tho same idea. Air Luff has dug a trench four inches wide and four inches deep and filled it up with beach sand, which, makes a permanent mark, and will do away with the old stylo of marking the field every week with a white wash barrow. 3 no grass u i Hie Square has been all cut down, and the place looks very pretty at present. A Ladies’ Commit lee ha-s been formed (o carry out the annual ball in connection with the Fire Brigade. 3ho Ball will fake place some time in July, and it will be Field isi tho Theatre Royal. Sign posts arc posted in the street near the scholos in town. 3'hey are about 10 leet high and a broad arrow is a fixture at tho top. They are supposed to warn motorists to “go slow” as a school is near. I. heard one “\ ag” say that they would make good beacons for drunks going plodding on their homeward weary way on a. quiet, (alm, moonlight night Councillor Barry, at the "Borough meeting, suggested that the words be printed on the sign posts Uio same as in other towns, tho to be “S'low 2,” which all motorists understand. Councillor AVrckes suggested to make it vice versa, and it thus would read “2 Slow.’’ At the meeting of the Council wii Wednesday evening, it was decided to allow pictures to be shown on a Sunday evening. 3 his is a> boon amt a. blessing for Westport. Years ago the Sunday night pictures were pul, a stop to. Mr A. Leavqr (the late Mayor), was in office al Ihe I'.me, and he. didu 7 , believe in Sunday being used as a day of enjoyment and it was through him that the. Sunday pictures gQ L “bumped.” AH the towns in the Buller County can run Sunday night picture shows, but we in “the city” have to be contented with going to church or standing at the Post Office corner and listening to the teaching ol Johnston, or the Army at Jack Craig's corner. There are great preparations imide lor ihe orchestra ball io be held in Lhe ’Theatre Royal on Friday night. Robert Darby, ex .Inspector of .Police, and once proprietor of the A’ictoria Hotel, AVestport, died suddenly at his mother-in-law s residence on Wednesday night. Air Darby was well-known and highly respected all over the Dominion. The case against 11. J. Stevens, of illegally selling liquor after hours was dismissed by Alagistfatc Maunscll, who held that ihe sale was a bona lido one through a. lodger to a. couple of the 'la’ll er’s friends'. The case created a good deal of interest in licensing circles, The written judgment was a lengthy one, and several authorities were quoted. Ab the Magistrate’s Court, at the instance of Albert Prestney, Mr Alaunsell lined four young men £1 and 7s .costs for aiding to attend drill. Air Alaunsell, S.AL, lined Wm. Todd of tho Grand Hotel, £5 and 7s costs for Ceding liquor after hours. His wife, Lilian Todd, was convicted and discharged for. illegally supplying the liquor. The Komuta is to he put on the Westpoil-Auekland run, and will be iucoeeded 'in itho IWellingtonAVcstrale by the >.s. Kitirauga, a remiily Old Horn Homo. The Kitiruiiga is of rather more tonnage Hum the Koiuata., and is said, to have belter passenger accommodation. Mmdslra.te Maunsell in, the Court filled Burunlll Dtmd Frederick Mclntyre. mid John Clark each 20s aad ernts 7s for being ilelgnlly oil llc<’i> - ..({ premises. Timrleeii .. ■'* loned ciu'li ill which io part up the Cine. . Mr ib-o. Ab ken, iuur., loir yesun■,v\ Illiwsikiy) Jm- Ausi.ra.lin with Um New Zeubiml Vnive, ,ity l-'ooi bal Teimi. and will be absent for about iweolis. .during iwlnfah time six Aulus -will lio'plnye.l on tho other side. _ (By ‘' WcMportoniaii- ’) M. A. 9'liompson ami his new ven(UlT, ihe “Energy” arrived’safely in pnrl. Il is slated Unit it is Air Thompson’s intention, for the present, to utili.e the mlrigeridm;; pbrnl l‘m' "'"1 slmiigo |.in I". This slmul.l supply a long tell, mint in AVeslport, enabling its residents to gel regularly supplied with. Hsh, insteml of an intermillrnl impply as a 1 prcseid. A\itk Illis appliance, it. slmubl lie. possible io |.| ]B (ish business, mi similar lines to a butcher's, taking orders amt supplying same. Tl’.e housewife emild then regulate her cuisine, kumviug just what (isli she aim procure mid wl’cu she can procure H- AVe arc adi micing sonic! It is stated that Air McKenzie, from I lie mines, has taken up his residence in town ami joined the local waterriders. As a side line, lie is going to . show some of our local enthusiasts how to play golfQuiio a. difference of opinion exists among t our street ■ orner talkologists, upon lhe merits or tlemerits of the introduction of billiards (ballads) into the curriculum of an iron foundry. It is said that Bill got riled (Riley ’d)

and tried to have the innovation reiL moved, although unsuccessfully. It is n, averred that "music’’ hath charms to e soothe the savage breast, but the t maxim has misfired, as the savage breast is stated to be still unsoothed. 1 Not being a musical inomiis I sought information from those 1 thought might e be able to give me some information. l ' The first, one I approached, our local I Paganini, simply turned me down, her lips were locked. The next violinist of note I approached and told my want I of success, helped me none, simply re--5 marking I could not nail her (Naylor). s I left in disgust, resolving to find out. 1 <'<>lll.l Mack Master it '(McMaster), but in vain. Fox, cunningly, refused to be drawn into a controversy. I in-

terviewed the members of the band, Orchestral Society, Liedertafcl, choirs, etc., and still can find no solution to the vexed question. 3'hc fact that there arc other unions in the Buller district, in addition to the reccntly-foriiied Shop Assistants, k seems to have had a steadying effect upon some of the business men’s asso(l ciations. There appears to have been a feeling of resentment that the em- [_ ployees should have come together, and c not left, themselves to the tender morcis of their employers, and in that rc- -_ sentful Reeling certain local footballers b nearly, very nearly, failed to get peril mission io play the game last Satur-

t t day. However, as the, picture adverx tisements say “All’s well that ends r well. ” Consideration was given to the fact that miners ’ unions, railway unions, w atersiders ’ unions, general labourers r unions, all had branches in the Buller district and the members of these unions would, feel sad to think the game of football should 3suffer, just because its exponents had become unionists. A matter for consideration at next football conference should be a preference clause, making 1 all i’ootbajllers unionists. There are ’ persistent Tumours that it is the intention of business men to reduce their staffs to I lie irreducible minimum. This goes to show the spirit of benevolence 1 That lias permeated their ranks in the * past. As the poet says, T don’t know ’ what poet, or if lie really did say jti “3'hey have done good by stealth and blush lo find it known.’’ The Good * Book, says, *<lt is noT wise- to hide ’ thy light under a bushel.” Therefore, in all fairness lo those whose good 1 deeds in the past, have not had the 3 light of public Approbation, played ’ upon them it,might be wise, upon ihe 3 part of those, who have been existing r upon this benevolent spirit in the past and who have now to seek fields a. fresh and pastures new,” to give the , particulars to their union secretary, 3 who could, in turn forward same to 3 the paper that is always alive to the t interests of Labour, so .that “He that ( ) runs away,” may read. i