WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 3 July 1922, Page 6

WESTPORT NOTES.

WESTPORTONIAN’S NOTES. Whenever a notable personage is in a critical state of health —with medicos in at ten-la m-e, issuing bulletins hour by hour and the Telegraph oilices posting them outside the oltice—you can generallv set* anxious --row-ls scanning the “ktest.’’ That is about, the position as regards butter in Westport nt the present, time. 'The grocers have lately taken up the practice of utilising the blackboard and other devices for ad vertising their prices, and anxious house wives van be noticed going from board to board watching the butter prices. Person: lly, I am not agitated but have turned Mahomedan, and will not touch the product of the cow, but there are others. Consequently tin? Wustport Branch of the A.S.R.S. passed a resolution at its monthly meeting, protesting against the soaring price and calling upon the Board ot Trade to stop it. If they are :s energetic in this matter as in others 1 named in last notes, we might adopt as oar proverb “Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed. ’ ’ It is said that the local butter factory will not supply merchants with more than one box : t a time. Does this mean that they are not giving awa> anv chances, but intend to take full advantage of any rise that may take place : I think ’so, : s that is “business.’’ Also, it is said that the bacon ( tired by this company of co-ops is sold locallv at such a price that consume) s have to pay just as much as lor the imported article. This is not the gun erally accepted meaning of co-opera-tion. ' Hospital Board matters have take)) /.•mother turn, and, let us trust, as re | gnrds the new building, a final oneHon Parr has intimated th: t the conI tract may be proceeded with, pioxi-1 ( cd an extra £5OO security is put up. the surety being satisfactory tu thi Chairman and the Board. H’s a pity that Greymouth people in public positions cannot carry on without doing things that gets Westport ? dander up. We should try and gm along amicably and not endeavour -• do each other injury. Of course 1 al imle to Greymouth's action to get th< impost of !’d per ton wharfage dut) put upon our coal and coke uxpoits Let: us hope Greyites will steer deal of these actions in the future. Our Inspector of Nuis: nces has beei sorely tried for some considerable tinw with the antics of a pony who had tin run of the streets ami when ever tin Inspector endeavoured to capture him showed he could utilize his hind leg" Danny approached the owner, oi th', butcher whom he thought was the own er, but the butcher repudiated the pony But the Other morning quite early, Dan ny prepared a nice bucket of chaff am bran and ponv could not resist, and I capture eventuated! So now the own er will own her, or she’ll soon haw. a new owner. It is said that, if il I turns out as Danny expects, and Daunt issues summones for Hie number o: da vs the pony has been :t large, thert ? will be an extraordinary jump in re f ceipts of revenue from this source 1. to the Borough Treasurer!