WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 27 May 1922, Page 5

WESTPORT NOTES.

(Our Own Correspondent.) Dining her visit to the Empire City Mrs Patterson (lady member on th Bulier Hospital Board) had an intei *' view with Dr Wylie, who promised t • s look into the mutter of the st: tus o *s the Denniston Hosiiitul. He nmlei — stood ;i to be a “cottage hospital.’ b- The original agreement on the esta! s- lishment of tin* institution is to be tin g cart lied and information forwarded. Coliseum nt upon the foregoing ; further request for assistance for th hospital on I'm* “Hill,’’ is being hvh over by t he- boyrd. 1 nvit; tions have been forwarded t< all members of local bodies to be pre sent at the unveiling ceremony of tin Soldiers’ Memorial Gateway on dune 3 The Hon. J. Barr, Minister of Public Health, will be in Westport on tin .‘list, and will visit local institutionus well as Denniston Hospital. Members of the board will meet lie. Minister, and place ad information at his disposal. It is estimated that the increase it the county levy towards hospital ad ministration this year will lie £S5(i. The estimate' for tiie installation or four extra telephone connections at th. hospital is between £2S and £3O. Th l Jour connections would operate indo pendent of the centra! exchange. For the present the* board is shelving the proposed installation. Cr Parry, who has been giving some ! attention to the x ray plant at the Buller District Hospital is reported to be getting good results, and the board is instructing him to carry on the good work. 'l'he fowl house nuisance in the vicinity of the isolation ward is to be removed. To see whether Caretaker Lobb’s fowl run is being carried on in a profitable fashion the Hospital Board has asked for a report on the number of eggs produced, and the cost of feeding the* birds for the past 12 months. Dr Valentine, .Director of Health, has advised the Hospital Board that unless they are prepared to take over the ex pease of the District Nurse for the Bui- | lor the department would dispense with | her services. The board will ascertain | the expense of her services since th" I conimeiicemcnt of operations and if ad- .■ visable they will accept the response I bility. The department will continue Ito pay the nurse’s salary until July 3! I next. 'l’he secretary of the Buller Distric l Hospital and ( heritable Aid Board haJ been advised from an authoritative | source that on April 1, 1922, the population of the Buller was 9206 and the capital value of the rateable property ; £1,630,780. I The Hospital B. aid is making a request to tht* Health Department for a . further supply of ambulances. Cr Simp- : son pointed to the isolation of the Karaniea district ami pul up a strong plea ; tor the placing of a motor vehicle in j that locality. He guaranteed lo get a i motor ambulance committee set up io I take care of and properly house th' I vehicle. When the department sends .along the “bus,’’ the board will then decide which place in the district is . most in need ot it. Cr Thomas (Den- ! niston) also stressed the urgency of its cunveniemes on the Hill. On Thursday night the Westport ■ Ladies’ Hockey Club held a very sue- ; < cssful dance in the Friendly Fociet- ; ins’ building. the hall nslairs was ' i decorated with streamers of the Club’s ! colours (Idm k am! yellow) ami chains j of training lysepodium. Orchestral mus--1 i< - was provided, in the supper room ! upstairs, [he Club's colours again pre1 . , . , Bl leomiimted. Chains of black and gold ■ stretched across the room, and high specimens of yellow and black flowers ’with green birch foliage made very [ pretty und-cllective table de< = An vxeellci) and plentiful supper was provided, ami everything from the commencement to the wind up went oft “jake.” J. have it from an autnorafive source that the condition of the : Westport bar is anything but satisfaclory, and ’.hat the bar has gone back ever since the Massey Government took control. Il is a. well-known fact that everything was let go to rack and ruin round about the breakwaters, until such times as conditions became well nign -• !.!c, a,27 now wo are. to stand buck and sec the bar silling up io such an extent as to become a danger and have a damaging effect to the pas good record of the port. .Beautiful Goxci'i.niein to control! Fo much for the advocacy of those who. in urging the,' giving over uf control to the Govern-i liicul, pr 'dieted the dawn of a glorious fulure! Il looks as though the ‘ 1 go- j blow” Government must go quickly vut of ollice. lest the “bar” be brought under the six o’clock closing act. In fact if things go on as they are, the business done during trading hours will not be sufficient to pay the wages o. ■ an attendan'. This harbour business reminds us that ' when the Rubi Feddon (dredge) came back from its hire to the Wanganui thread bare Tn !’> jar’s. Men have been working on In r for some time past repairing the damn ■ . it is now high time the governing : . j < .oil's commenced to thing aoout putg her to wo.rk on the bar. The admiralty steamer BTibeTn is due here shortly, ad if she is to sail away with a full cargo of coal, as she ought to do. it will be necessary for both tno Rubi and Eileen to play’ a dredging duct on the part lying between Tno two break waters. “May there be no i moaning of the bar when they put out lo sea.” , i The people of Westport are beginning to wake up to the fact that the win-

ning of the Rhodes Sc. olarship is umiething to be proud of. It was men Honed in the new year article to this rolumn that tlie winning of the Rhodes Scholarship was one of the greatest ‘‘Vx'iits in the historical records of the e.st Coast. Residents are beginning •*> ealise this, slowly perhaps, but surely I’he complimentary social ami dance im! the presentation of a fountain-fvtn nade to him by the Rangimari? Cropiet Chib xvas a brilliant little funeion no doubt, but it should be as not ling compared with the brilliancy of the mblic function and gift that is due, iml doubtless xvill be tendered later'To >ur Rhodes scholar. His last home coning and farexxil prior to *' he Old Country xvill assuredly be ra•ognised in some memorable and tangible form. A special meeting of the Buller Hosni al Board is to be held on Tuesday veek to consider the reopening of ten levs received for the alterations and extension to the Distrist xxospital.