WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1922, Page 2

WESTPORT NOTES.

(Our Own Correspondent...) Mr Norman Paine, contractor is on a. brief business visit io the Empire (‘i'y. Air .1. Munson and Mi - A. Jones, C'orhvvale. aiv leaking by the Koniala to spend a short holiday in the North Island. The marriage «d‘ Mr R. Ulayworth to Miss Eon, daughter of (’oum-illor E. Fox. is being celebrated to-day in St. John's Anglican Church. Fine weather came in with the new mo6n, wh ch was just visible in the western sky at 6 p.m.. on Monday evening. According to a theory cd' a good jminy people, this is an indication that we are in for a fair spell of tine weather. The boisterous rain and wind experienced during the week-end was pression that we were in for a week or two of solid wet wealher, but with the coming of the new moon Ihe threatened storm has apparently passed over. On Monday morning snow was visible for the first lime this winter on the summit of the surrounding mountains. The last ornamental touches have just been given to the marble ‘ 4 Gatos of Remembrance.'' by Messrs Eraser and Paine, contractors. Everything

in connection with the monument is now in perfect order, and it behoves those in authority, whoever they may be, to see that nothing is allowed to damage or detrimentally affect in the slightest degree this beautiful piece of monumental masonry. Writing in this strain reminds us that on the day oi the’ unveiling ceremony, three or four small boys wore seen to climb up on the tower ledge of the gateway and swinging 1 ieir frames uti the vertical bars of the ironwork. Such misconduct leads US to eonelude that the proper course to take to ensure that the ‘‘ Gates of Remembrance” w ill be treated with due reverence and respect, would be •<> lecture all the children on the purpose and significance of this marble gateway leading to Westport’s main public reserve. The perfect spell of the. weather just past gave the contractor. Mr George i Snow . an cppoitunity to uoniplete the Nurses’ tennis court in the grounds adjoining the Buller District Hospital. PTennis is a fascinating form of recreation and to have the facilities to enjoy a. gaiiie at one’s own door will jirove a veritable God-send to the members of the nursing staff. The Buller Valley Farmers’ Co-opera-Hi\e Dairy Company manufactured 33 m(>re tons of butter this war iJltin last. 'The output of this manufacturingl establishineiit is destined to gradually increase in the future, and with tlie extension of the bacon curing portion of the Company’s concern it will undoubtedly from one of the district s most valuable t'.ud stabilizing assets.