WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 19 June 1922, Page 2

WESTPORT NOTES.

(Our Own Correspondent.) Three or four well-known citizens from “Sunny Nelson” have been touring round this district during the last couple of days. Thank God the weather has been fine! Most ]->r<d»abli‘ candidates for tin' “ unjYopular man’’ eompcti l ion mentioned in last day’s notes art 1 Mr Alafir. who is entitled to count on more than a score of votes from the No-license League, and Mr .D. T. Gibbard, who is pretty certain of scoring all there is to bo gained from the party advocating ‘ ‘ Continuanc-c. ’ ■’ Now we ]>i’opso io 101 l a tale out ol school, but so long us no names are mentioned, no harm will be done. The. tali' consists of a few reproductions in this column of Ihe -.‘jaculation hoard to come from the excited spectators on the side line al tho Mokihinui v. United Ladies’ hockey mutch played out in the country last Thursday afternoon. No 1: “ Iloi-kev one! Shinty two!! Sherry three and away!! Whish!! No 2: “Good one; that’s the stuff to give the troops!” No 3:“ Don't jump Mokihinui, even if it (the ball) breaks your leg!” No I: “Charge it! ” No 5: (“Get into i, Annie: what the devil are you doing there?” No 6 •‘ Go on, I niied; you’ve got it all on your own!’’ No 7: When the time up whistle blew. “Only a fluke it wasn’t a draw!” A most pouuliar thing about a number of immigrants who arriv-ed here a night or so tig" is that they led the fishes j-iractieally all the way cut from the Old Country, and as soon as they reach-ed their destination, made straight for a restaurant to indulge in a fish sujiper! I have it on g<-od authority that as a result of tho Forestry Department’s survey of the lands between hero and North Karamva district, there is untold wealth lying dormant in the king trees of the forest country. The district in due time will come to be known as “the land of milk, honey and wood! ” As one who witnesed the Town v. Coiintrv hockey match at Mokihinui, 1 should‘like to say that there are some jiromising players amongst the blacn and greens. Consistent full team practices should make them just -about the toughest hockey jiroposition in the Buller district—-that is of course among women folk.