HOKITIKA NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 25 June 1925, Page 8

HOKITIKA NOTES.

A conference has been held o| ie local bodies interested and Messrs Stuart and Chapman relative to better railway facilities for South Westland on the milling firm’s line. I he s.s. Orewa, bound from Auckland to. Hokitika, was yesterday sheltering at Farewell Spit. Ter e was ‘heavy southerly sea running along the. coast. It it understood the ve> sei will come on to Greymouth. Ihe Inspector of Fisheries recentlv initiated prosecutions agams’t some sawmillers lor dumping mill refuse into the Hokitika River, as being caucuhnted to injure the fisherv facjlirties. Meantime the; siaiwmiillers, I understand, .sent a deputation to the Prime Minister, with the result the* the prosecutions are being dropped. J.n fdther rivers, however, the law forbids the depositing of sawdust, but this is the second occasion on which prosecutions in the case of the Hokitika river have been nullified The death is recorded of Air Charles P. Glass, County roadniri. at Mt. Hercules, South W’estianu. from pneumonia after an illness of only a couple of days. He was a native, of KokataJii, a son of the late Mr. Charles Glass of that district, 51 years of age, and leaves a wife and family of five sons amd two daughters, one of the latter bting Mrs Dehn of AVataroa. There are three sisters (Mrs L. Bergmann « Christchurch, Mrs Mathias of \\aiwe:n Plains, and Aliss Glass of Oamarj). A euchre and dance took place a: St. Many’s clubrooms on Mondi; evening, when .the attendance w;> large. The priaes were won by M’ " Sullivan and Mrs J. Kilcullen, . i Messrs A. Sumner and Mr. Lang f spec.tively. The winners of the lucky table were Mrs Turner, AirShominor, Mrs L Brown and Mr. W. Lakin. Goodfellows Orchestra supplied the music lor the dance, which wa. s largely attended.