LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 27 February 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

'l’lh' “ Evaril.r Oil gauge” invented fur use on Ford ears is the greatest boon invented nnd is meeting with huge success, many solid points and construction apparent, easily fitted, cco nomieal and securely packed in envelopes. Post free for 16/9 each. Mark Sprot arid Company Ltd. distributors. Buildings erected in Auckland last year totalled £1 500,000. At a recent tennis tournament at White City, Sydney. 6814 tennis ball-, were used. New swimming baths, with, cold and tepid pools, are being constructed at Lower Hutt. 'The cost to the Grey Hospital Board for wines and spirits lor the period ofi six months past was £lll/6/9. Mass will be celebrated at Nelson (’ruck on Sunday next March I. at 8.30 ii.iii.. and at Ngahcrc at 10.30 a.m. — Advt. The Wanganui City Council has decided to discontinue its late hour tram service, as the service did not pay. The last car will run at 11. p.m. That the New Zealand Perpetual Forests Ltd. have a branch office in Greymouth, also a district representative, who will be pleased to furnish ail particulars: Box IS, Greymouth. Advt.

Some trouble is being experienced in rcard to securing bricks for the new Old People’s Home buildings. The Clerk of Works, Mr F. Longshaw. states that the demand is greater than the local works can supply, and it may be necessary to import bricks to carry on with the work. A letter was read at the Hospital Board meeting yesterday from an cxpatient of the Grey Hospital who had been sent in an account for £3/18/- for treatment that he “had been given a lot of medicine which, tasted like sugar and ’water. . . .1 don’t know if that is worth. £3/18/- or not.”

Blackberries are being retailed at. 6d per ll> in Wellington. Mass will be velel.rnt<•<! ni J’aroa >u Sunday next. March 1 :i| X. 30 a.m.— Advt . Extensive additions are to be made £o the Wanganui Post Office at a cost of £20,000. When you travel, book with the Fourist Department—it costs no mure. Tourist Bureau. Mackay Street.—Advt. Last week the sum of £484 10/- was taken at the gates at the Auckland Zoo. The new theatre, which .Messrs .1. (’. Williamson Ltd v intend 'erecting in Queen Street, Auckland, is to be called the Prince of Wales Theatre. Call and sue our latest model Trust v , Triumph Motor Cycle, 4 h.p; Price £ll2 at Wade and Co.’s new premises next Dixon’s. Stationers.—Advt. New buildings for the Arbitration < urt are to be elected -n Wellington, Cabinet having voted a large .sum ot money for the purpose. A big produce merger is mooted In Wellington, the names of several wellknown firms being mentioned in the proposed combine. It has been decided to postpone the Blind Soldiers’ Conference indefinitely on account of the rest restrictions of the Health Department due to the epidemic. Various teams of West Coast tiremen leave to-murruw for Christchurch for the annual competitions, which this

year have attracted very large entries. Foreman F. McGregor (Hokitika) lias been appointed one of the examiners tor the competitions. The Railway Department has made arrangements to run two excursions next month. Doth to Otira. On March 7th the excursion will be from Kaiapoi and Rangiora. via Oxford, and on the 31st from Ashburton. You owe a duty I" your purse. Fulfil it bv repairing to McGruor s Great Summer t'lcarancc Sale, whi'rc double values await you for single expenditure. The bargains arc many. Cail to day. The date for the closing of the offices of the District and Loco Fn gineers is evidently drawing near, as the various articles of furniture arc being catalogued preparatory to being transferred to other offices outside (I reymouth . The merging into the County of West land ot’ the portion of Hokitika Bor ough lying south of the river means the loss of half the town’s original area. In view of the line bridge across the river, the Hokitika “Guardian” points out that the step appears rather a retrograde one. Newman’s Motors will run a special car from Grey mouth to Nelson for th? races, leaving on Wednesday morning, returning on Sunday. Excursion return faro. £4. Seats booked at White Star Office, or Harley and Co. Ltd.— The question of laying the foundation stone of the new Old People’s iTonic was briefly discussed at the Hospital Board meeting yesterday, but nothing was decided, on. “I don’t think there is much enthusiasm over the laying of the foundation stone.” remarked the Chairman (Air J. W. Hannan.> Greymouth people who ara acquainted 'with Sydney will remember the old Family Hotel, at the corner of George and Goulbourn Streets, Haymarket. This old building, which has stood for nearly seventy years, together with the Salvation Army buildings at the rear, arc to be demolished to make way for new colossal stores for Messrs Anthony Hordern and Sons Ltd. The block will extend right back to Pitt Street, so that, when completed. Horderns will be on both sides of Goulbourn Street. Harluv and Uo. Ltd., instructed by Mr AV. J. Barrow. will submit his pro purtv 7 William Street, to public auction al 2.30 p.m. on Saturday next Tin* property consists of lots 6 and 7 Section 295. Block 28, together with S roomml dwelling and 10-stall stable thereon. All particulars can bv had fmm the auctioneers. — Advt. As advertise'! in to-day’s issue, the Committee of tin Greymouth Branch of t-he Plunket Society arc holding a sale of work, produce, home-made rakes and sweets, etc., to-morrow (Saturday) in McKay and Son’s Sample Rooms, at th'- corner of Mackay and Albert Sts. A guessing competition will be held, the prize for which is a dinner, kindly donated by Mr W. H. Parfitt. As the benefits of tin.* Plunket system are now so well known, it is te be hoped that there will be a vorv. generous response to tiii committee’s appeal. No better object could be commended to the support of the community at large. Get that piano now—let ‘‘The Bristol” help you. The longer your home is without a piano, the longer you are denying yourself and your family one of life’s joys—music. There’s no reason for such a. sacrifice when you realise that “The Bristol’s” hire purchase system is at your command. With a small deposit, and regular monthly payments you may have a piano made by the world’s master craftsmen—John Broad wood and Sons, Collard and Collard, Sarnes, Bell, Barnard and the famous Walter Collinson. Prices from 80 guineas. Communicate with us now —we will help you. The Bristol Piano Co., Ltd., Tainui Street. IT. G. Donne. Manager. Reef ton representative, Mr Nicholas Lawn.— Advt.

I’etrol-driv eu engines arc being used on the 1 n\ureargill-BlulT subuiban sen We are how in our new premisesnext to Dixon’s, Stationers, with a full stock of all cycle sundries Bicycle:?, prams, tennis and cricket materials etc Call and gee our variety of stock— Wade and Co—Advt At the .Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr AV. R. Kettle. J.P.. Thomas Hilton, for being drunk and disorderly at Dunollie. was lined £1 and costs. A meeting of creditors in iho bankrupt estate of Donald Lindsay Goidon Mundy, of Grey mouth, labourer, will be held in the deputy-off:cial assignee’s office! to-morrow afternoon. vV*TCH Till ’NDIANH GO BY!— A Christchuicli telegram states that at a meeting of 500 Canterbury school teachers, a plan was drawn up and approved for distributing home lessens to scholars through the newspapers, while the epidemic is on. Tiiv scheme will be sent ro the Department for approval. 'Thrift v buyers will like these prices: Ladies’ superior quality corsets, were 7 'll and 9/11. now 3/11 and 4 11 per paid. All sizes. 20 to 30in. Only at M<-( i ruer ’< Great Summer Clearance Should motor car owners wish to have their cars thoroughly overhauled and painted, bring them to our Motor Department. Reliability and promptness assured. AVc specialise in Electric and Acetone Welding. Call at the Dispatch Garage which is the recognised service station for the Overland, Oakland and Willy-Knight. Adv* The acting K.M.O. of the Grey River Hospital, Doctor Marion A. Rad cli fi’c-Tavlor reported to the Hospital Board at its meeting yesterday that there were thirteen patients who had been in the hospital for over two months. Of this number four would ben efit by further treatment, six would be discharged within the next fortnight and one would not recover, while the remhiulng two had come to a financial agreement with the Board. Just drop a line, our representative will call and see yon the first time hr is in your district. It is a pleasure to show you our frocks, suitings, etc. Gaberdines, Serges, Tweeds, Worsteds and Overcoatings, all of best quality and dyes. Langlev Frocks, ready made or to order. Suits from £3 15/- to £9 10 '-. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money refunded in full. Bd wards. Christchurch. For Suits that Satisfy, and Frocks that Please. J. Scott. Thrcadneedle Street, Grey mouth. Coast Representative.—Advt. Tiic amount of tobacco consumed by di fieri nt smokers varies considerably Smiie will use a coupl( of ounces a day, while others arc satisfied with less. The moderate smoker averages perhaps three ounces a week. Indulged m with discretion, tobacco is admittedly rather beneficial than otherwise. I', is chiefly a question of nicotine. Tile habitual use of tobacco heavily charged wit hnieotine may result in nerve and heart trouble or weakening of the eye .sight. As a matter of fact, praetic ally all imported tobaccos contain an «*xcess of nicotine. In that couue? lion it may interest the reader to learn that the purest tobaccos produced are grown in A’ew Zealand. 'They von lain such a comparatively small percentage of nicotine that they may be indulged in ad lib., with safety. A peculiarity <’f their manufacture. by the way. is that thev are all toasted. Hence their line flavour. 'They are adapte.l io all tastes. Riverhead Gold is mild, Xavy Cut (Bulldog) median, am.’ Gut Plug No 11 (Bull’s Head)', full. A’ou '-an buy them at any tobacconists. 17