HARI HARI NOTES

Grey River Argus, 29 June 1925, Page 8

HARI HARI NOTES

(Our own Correspondent). Messrs H. J. Levelt and party ;<re the successful tenderers for the erecnioni of the Consolidated School tor this district. Rev. Father Healey, who has been appointed parish priest of Ross, m place of the late Father Riordan was a visitor to Hari Harj this week. It is now over four weeks since we have had any rain worth speaking < i. The factory milk cans are to be seen in use daily on the carts, being filled up with spring water. Sonic (» the residents have to cart -their water two and three miles to their homesteads. Mr. AV. Thiele and. Air Thomas Ford two well-known local men, lv»t over a week ago to be present at the Palmerston Show. Mr. Frank Haddock the owner oi the raclehorse, North Inch, also Cashman. left last week to witness his horses running at Ashburton. Tli c tragic suddeness of the deain of Mr. Charles Glass, senr., of Mount Hercules, which took place at the Westland Hospital on Tuesday night last, came ais a shock to everybody in the community. “Charlie” was about as usual on Monday morning. About noon the same day he complained of not feeling well, and in the afternoon his wife had the patient removed to the Westland Hos pital, but the deceased never improved ami passed away on the following night. The funeral took place ycstci clay. leaving his late reside, kc. Mount Hercules for the Dari li<;. cemetery. The deceased leaves G* hind him a. widow, five sons (nam-jix Charles, James, AVilliam, David Jack) and two daughters (Marx at home) and Mrs A. Lehn cl Matainui). The late Charles Glass sp» >'t the greater part of his life in the Hari Hari district, being employed as roaldman on behalf of the Public Works Department, in |the district lor the past twenty years, unt I I?resigned from the Department abo-'i four years ago? mostly to pay atUi) tion to his farm at Mount Hercules. In the days before the Little Wanganui bridge was erected, visitor'' travelling soijth, upon finding die river doubtful to cross, had all the one password: ‘Ring Charlie Glass--h(''ll let you know, or pilot you over!’’ Many a car he helped out ot difficulty. The district lost a good citizen by his passing. Last Saturday our juniors travelled to Hokitika to play the Kanieri team on Cass Square, and Kan’-eri put up 38 points against their nil. In fact, well into the second sped, the referee lost' count of the scores until a well-known cricketer from the Kanieri township happened to have a score book in his pockets, which came in very useful.