LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 16 June 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Passengers for Westport, Nelson and Wellington should ’phone Mark Sprot and Co., Ltd., agents for information and fares through Gibbs’s Reliable A! ot o r Bor vi c e.—A dv t. Several men are walking long distances to the West Coast in search of work. Ring up 391—Rothwell’s Troeadero, for your fish supplies.—Advt. The Melbourne-Warrnnmbool cycle road race is being revived. It is expected a big reduction in the price of corrugated iron will shortly bo made by English exporters. London’s May Day demonstration was the most imposing ever held in the Metropolis. The procession took over an hour to pass a given point. The present, dry weather, with a consequent drop in the level of the streams around Nelson Creek, has caused the Forest Creek Sawmilling Coy.’s mill there to go on short time. As illustrating the extent to which unemployment prevails at the present time, it is reported that a Wellington seedman’s advertisement for two elderly men for h: nd-picking peas brought no less than 40 applicants. Up Auckland way the Capitalists have started a “Better Times” campaign. Yet the day it began the Official Assignee there received two days’ notice of no fewer than seven bankruptcies. Better times! McFarlane is still at the Albion, and selling Mandi’s Bottle Beer at 1/- a bottle. —Advt. Last night there was a great Labour rally at Dunedin in connection with the Dunedin North bye-election, Messrs Howard, Sullivan and AlcCombs, Al.’sP., taking part. The Tories are working very hard. Air 11. E. Holland will arrive in Dunedin on Monday. Got this telephone number —391—it is that of Rothwell's Trouidero, Boundarv Street, the place to order your fish. —Advt. Reginald Beiler, aged 12 years, Gil gandra’s coming champion record bonebreaker, has sustained his tenth-frac-ture. His last break was received in a simple manner. He sleeps outside, and about daybreak the dog playfully jumped up on the bed, fiacturing the lad’s leg. Beiler’s father up to date has a record of 44 broken bones. The latest issue of the Education Department’s Gazette contains the names of no fewer than 148 teachers who arc no longer on the service and who have neglected to apply for a refund of their contributions to the Teachers’ superannuation Fund. The amount awaiting recovery at the hands of these 148 must represent a substantial sum. A cyclo collision occurred last evening in the vicinity of Sawyer’s Creek Bridge, resulting in Air F. Barrowman and a boy named Kear being rendered unconscious. The boy was coming down the incline at a fair pace and crashed into Air Barrowman, both being thrown into the road. Air Barrowman was con- ! veyed homo in Alessrs Griffen and I Smith’s motor lorry. ' i All previous movements were moveI ments of minorities, or in the interest? jof minorities. The proletarian move- | ment is the selfconscious, independent movement of the immense majority in the interests of the immense major it/ The proletariat, the lowest stratum. of our present society, cannot stir aannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air. The Communist Manifesto. At a meeting of the West Coast Dairy Association held this week, the respective situations for the dairy factory were discussed at length, and it was .eventually decided to erect the buildings at Taipo-iti. This is a convenient site and alongside the railway line, which should conduce to the cheap handling of the cream and butter. In addition plenty of pure water is available, as well as supplies of coal at a cheap rate. Contributions to the Pearson Fund for the blind are acknowledged by the local Treasurer (Air Passau) as follows:—Camerons £3 .15/-, Gladstone and Paroa £6 13/-, Cobden £l5 11/6, Botomanu £1 5/-, Pohcrua £2 6/6, Kotuku £1 4/-, Waiuta £l3 1/6, Totara Flat £2 6/6, Afoana £1 4/6, Otira (part) £l, 16/-, Kokiri £3 3/6, Airs Wylde, Runanga, 2/6, Greymouth Trotting Club £4 18/2, West Coast Rugby Union £9 16/4. v Booking passengers through Grey mouth to Wellington, via Reefton, West port, and Nelson. l ? or fares and al information —A. E. Kilgour, agent, tel<phone 259,' post, office box 103.— AdwA special meeting of the Cobden Town Board was held prior to the ordinary meeting on Wednesday evening for the purpose of adopting the bal-ance-sheet f&r the year ended Alarch 31, 1922, which was returned duly certified by the Audit Office. It was decided that a copy bo made available for perusal by ratepayers at the Board’s office. Members agreed that the balance-sheet disclosed a healthy state of affairs taking into account the erceptional and non-recurring expenditure, incidental to a newly-formed local body,

It was reported last evening that two huts were destroyed by fire at the Rewanui mine yesterday. W.-ide and Co. have just received a shipment of genuine U.S.A. Bicycles at Low Prices.—Advt. \Vr hrive just landed a now shipment of Seagrass Prams and Seagrass PushChairs with Hoods. Wade and Co. — Advt. Wo h: vo full stocks of Electric Torches and Acetylene Lamps. Call in and select one from Wade and Co.’s line stock.—Advt. An exchange states that West port tobacconists have reduced the price of cigarettes from IQd fb 9d per packet. This is not before time as the majority of places in other towns have been retailing these articles for 9d for some considerable time. ; A January census of n n f. conducted by the New York City Commissioner of Public Welfare, shows that 343,000 persons are unemployed, apart altogether from a large number working on part time. This is one of the , many proofs that wage reduction does not im-rease employment. Hosiery for present, wear just opened direct from British mills. 120 dozen Ladies ’ Hose bought on the low market value exception: Ladies’ black Cash-mere-finish Hose 2/11 per pair; Ladies’ Black All Wool Cashmere Hose plain and ribbed, ..3/11, 4/11 and 5/11 pair. Each pair guaranteed to be fast dye. AlcGruer and Co., Greymouth, Reefton and Hokitika.—Advt. 1 Reports from Aloscow state that the Russian Prime Alinister, Lenin, contradicts the reports that he is so seriously ill as to be near death. When a man publicly d-enies his own death, it is safe to agree with Mark Twain that the report has probably been grossly exaggerated. Commenting on the craze for novelty by the fashion-slaves of the drone class, Sydney “Daily Telegraph” said last December that “distinctiveness is the bait for commercialism, which has no more compuncton in chase of its object than a shark.” Remember, that it is not a Socialist paper or a soap-boxer uttering these words, but the respectable commercial “Daily Telegraph,” an organ of the capitalist class, which in a moment of refreshing candor allows this profound truth to slip into print. There are now well over one thousand men at work in connection with the scheme to utilise the brown coal at Alorwell, Victoria, for electrical purposes. A gigantic Bucyrus shovel is engaged lifting the overburden from the seam. It descends with exactitude, sweeps up two and a half tons of earth, ascends, and places it into a waiting truck in less than a minute. Of 1226 miners examined from 25 mines in the Newcastle district, only five were found to be affliet-ed with hookworm. When Ashburton gets its new speeding by-law (says the “Guardian”) and the notices are posted at the town boundaries, there mey be repeated the experience of an American Aliddle West town, which displayed the commonmonplace warning to motorists: “Don’t drive faster than 15 miles an hour through the town.” But this particular warning is by no means commonplace for some knight errant of the road, who has presumably acquired a knowledge through sad experience, has smeared in large letter of axle grease under the original lettering: “Or you’ll break your springs.” Considerable inconvenience and loss of time has been experienced by the miners in this locality on various occasions through an insufficient number of ships trading here to relieve the congestion of coal at the Greymouth waterfront. In view of this fact it is interesting to observe that now that several vessels have arrived at the port there is not enough coal down here to keep them working. At least one vessel is held up at the local wharf through lack of sufficient supplies of coal to keep the gangs employed in loading. A meeting of the Board of Governors of the Grey District High School was held yesterday, the following being present:—Alessrs G. E. Perkins, W. Parfitt, W. R. Kettle and F. K. Kilgour (secretary). Apologies were received from Alessrs D. AlcKay and J. Hannan. Mr W. R. Kettle was appointed chairman, and Air W. 11. Parfitt was welcomed as a new member. In reply to a communication from the Education Board it was decided not to subsidise the salary of a teacher to be transferred from Wai ma to to be rated as second assistant, here. The audited balance-sheet for the year ended December 31, 1921, which showed that the Board’s credit was £1757 8/10, was approved. The Canterbury Education Board, Innngahua Coun<y Council and the Education Department, Wellington, wrote that Alessrs W. R. Kettle, F. IL Kilgour and D. AlcKay had been reappointed representatives on the High School Board of Governors. There is need of rain in several parts of the West Coast, owing to the frosts having nearly emptied the streams. Roof ton’s water supply has been reduced greatly, partly because of users turning on the taps at night to prevent the bursting of pipes. The consequence is that the town supply is being cut off between the hours of 10.30 p.m. and 6 a.m,

Keep this number in your head —39l. It is the telephone number of Rothwell’s Troeadero, where you are sure of the best fish supplhV and the best of meals. —Advt. To-morrow (Saturday) at 2 p.m. Harley :in-l Co., Ltd., will sell without reserve, a large quantity of furniture, iueduding Sidehoard, Duchess Chest, Bedsteads and Bedding, Morris Chairs, Ladies’ Gold Watch, and Trunk and Contents, etc. Particulars will be found in our advertising columns and articles can be seen at the rooms of the auctioneers. To-night in the Druids’ Hall, the Kohinoor Football Club will hold another of their popular euchre and dance series, when a good floor and good prizes are assured for patrons. Reduced prices 2/- and 1/-. A. E. Kilgour Piano and Gramophone Warehouse announce the following new records: “I’ve Found Kelly;” “I’m the Alan that Buried Flannagan;” “Sally O’Malley;” “Sing me an Irish it on to Poor Old Father;” “She is Song;” Who’s Your Friend;” “Blame my Best Girl Now*” “I’in out for the Day;” “Little Willie’s Woodbines;” “Since Fater Joined the Territorials;” •‘When Mother Backed the winner of the Derby”; “I Shall have to ask my Mother if she’ll let me”; by Billy Williams. Hundreds of others to select from. A. E. Kilgour, Piano and Gramophone Warehouse. —Advt. •