WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 24 June 1925, Page 7

WESTPORT NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent). WESTPORT. June 23. The shortest day has just passed, and the present winter will no doubt be long remembered as one ol the finest on record. A euchre and 4 i s toupiiey took plac? last night in the St. Canice’s Clubroom, and the proceeds went to the Scddoi! Shield Recovery Fund. Mr J. H. Greenwood has been reelected chairman of the Fire Board. 1 The Kaituna is shipping 150,000 feet uf timber here for Melbourne sailing to-day, via Greymouth. Rugby team from St. Canice.’s School journeyed to Denniston on Sat.- ; 1 urday, and played a match against the Hill boys. The visitors were de ■ feated by three to nil. The town team 1 have entered a protest against the 1 min’.Mg town lads playing with/ pit boots instead of the regulation shoes 1 with the leather grips on the soles. / The annual meeting of the Westport’ Eire Board was held in the Town Hail/ on Monday night, am! it was decide:! j: to have th<* Sluend-Mason steam fire-j 1 engine ovt'rhauled, also to have a new I. hose procured, and to Tiave fire plugs in the town tested. Only out- wet day in six weeks has j been recorded in Westport, ami this is j the “Wild Wet Coast!'’ The Eire Brigade’s Nigger Minstrel;, Timipe are htiid pract isi'iig for th*? (■nt oil ai n ment which they intend putI ing on al an early date . .Mr D. O’Neill’s tender for painting the Eire Brigade Station and tower Las bevn m-eepted. The back streets of the town are at! present looking like a forest, with the i rows of telegraphic and (dectric light , poles in course of erection. The Borough Council has all the street improvement machinery in moion in the nia’.'a street, and is taking advantage ol the fine weather to put down us much tarred road as possible.