HOKITIKA NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 29 June 1925, Page 8

HOKITIKA NOTES.

(Our own Correspondent). On ►Saturday afternoon numerous townspeople visited the local xvater. front to witness the arrival of the s.s. Orcwa. Notwithstanding the bad slate of the bar, the little vessel had no difficulty in entering the port. The crew speak highly of tin* vessel’s seaworthiness, as proved during her stormy passage from Auckland. We congratulate Mr G. A. Wood on his enterprise. As a result of the rain, all football fixtures Avcre cancelled on Saturday in the ’Westland district. The painting trade is so slack in Hokitika at present that what xvork is offering is causing keen competition amongst th e knights of the paint brush. Seldom, have the West. Coast fixers been seen as low as they art' at ]>resent. The long spell of (dear, cold weather is undoubtedly, responsible for this. This explains, no doubt. why the Grey bar is not so good as usual, and Avhy the timber exports are thereby handicapped. No doubt the freshes that will follow the next, fall of snow will scour out a good bar. As the result of the shoaling of tlio Grey bar, there is a big congestion of sawn timber, mostly Avhite pine, on the skids at the Gibson Quay and wharf sidings. Unless the northern bar improves soon, the millers will be confronted Avith a shortage of stacking space here. Mr Nelson Scott, the Avell.known saAvmill Avorker and footballer, avlio has had his right hand amputated as the result of an accident some sixteen months ago, is progressing favourably. Mr Jim Aitken, of Levin, and formerly of Hokitika, is a visitor to toAvn, and is staying Avith his sister, Mrs T. Moore, of Park Street. During the past few days, small quantities of whitebait have been seen making their Avay up Mahinapua Creek, and fishing will no doubt commence soon, but the scasn, for one reason or another, may not prov e a cry profitable locally. It will be a test of the effect of sawdust in the river at anyrate.