WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 20 January 1926, Page 7

WESTPORT NOTES.

(Our Own Correspondent.) WESTPORT, January 19. Bonding over the account, of the civic reception given io Mr. Pember Reeves at Grey month Inst Saturday i it caused a. sight of regret that Mr. i Reeves has inq been persuaded io | travel down the Duller Gorge-. He has I such a love of scenery that the trip l would have well repaid tfio time taken Ito accomplish the journey. There I were a lot of nice things said of Mr. i Reeves at ihnt reception and his dci served them, biif he should have i seen our Gorge! We VVestportinns arc as proud of our Gorge as I are of their Harbour. i It is the intention of the Post and 1 Telegraph Department to erect a 1 pcnny-in-the-slot telephone outside the Post Office on Brougham Street. This, i should prove a great convenience to ! the general public: they will not ;dI ways have io use other peoples ; phones now.To those pessimists who prognosti- ’ cored all sorts of ills through Lake ! Rochfort running dry and the hvdro- ; electric works going bung, it- will be : a relief to know Hi at there was 22ft. I of- water in the Lake on Monday, and ! she was bye-washing. The Westport coal Company has donated the sum of £lO to the i Westport Municipal Band. When it ! is considered that this Company is I also subsidising ilirei? oilier bands it must bo- acknowledged that the Com- | pany is indeed generous to this form I of community enterprise. I With the money received from the j playing of the Christmas carols and that received from the euchre iour- ’ noy and dance, the Municipal Band netted quite a. nice little sum and | when the honouary members “come io I light”, the band should bo in a fail ! way financiallv I am very sorrv to record that Jirnmv Cummings, who was such ar enthusiast in Band business is laid aside for the present. Let us hope he

may soon resume practice again. That section in Palmerston Street, which a resident in Westport purchasI ed the other week tor £250 seems tc be exercising the minds of sonic of our smart Set. It- fell like a bomb when the news got around that it was a freehold section. Tfiey are talking about it yet. What is puzzling tht i writer is how the land being freehold I lias escaped rates and taxes lor sc long. There should Iffr hundreds of pounds sterling owing “by someone i< I the Municipality. It see-ms von strange that the municipality can b< hocussed in such a manner, and it i> prelty rough, when one considers tin uphill fight the Borough Council ha> to keep the town in order on the limited revenue at its disposal. As t< the purchase of the section, well, there might have been others, if they only knew, but for once they were not- knowing ones. There Jives not many miles from | Westport a lady who is convinced that she possesses a very blight and l tactful little daughter. They visiter ! the. other day a great-aun|, and DoroI thy, alter the manner of small girls, i wandered all over the house. The o-k lady asked them to stay tea tea, men ! tinning that she had just made j ( heese salad. To her mother’s surprise Dorothy had something to say upor the matter. “Mother,” she said. “I don’t think we had better stay, Auntie. is (not too well, and two extra make such a lot of work. 1 think wc I shall go home now.’’ Her mother, much impressed with Dorothy's | thoughtfulness, agreed, and as they walked towards honie, complimented j her daughter for her knid consideraI tion. ‘ Well mother,” said Dorothy, “I don't know much about that. Yoi know how awfully short-sighted Auni tie is, and when I went into the kit chen and saw the cheese in the soar dish and Auntie slicing the soap int the. salad, 1 thought it was time foi tis to be going.” * Union secretaries al Trades Hall are up in arms at th* dictatorial action of tup. New Zealam Trades and Labour Councils’ Fedcra- ■ tion in sending a circular advising unions how to vote, in regard to i workers representative and deputy re i resent at i ve on the Arbitration Court bench. The reason sf-*tcd, it np pears is a- notion that by (pectin? other representatives than those no-v . occupying the position, they yvill voic\ their opposition to Hie Court’s decrees in thp past. Taken as a whole it would be thought that unions hav< | watched the career of tneir jvpresenI tativ<G stin.co they yvero elected to ■ lie position and are quite capable o judging whether they should bo entrusted with another term of office. Now, if we could only have a vote on he Arbitral ion Court's decisions, and the vote could effect those decisions well, that, would be a very diflerenl matter. There is a -t umour of another chang jver of hotel property to tak ( place shortly. Jcr says he wisher someone yvould chuck a pub over to him. The head of one of our bes l families earned a reputation for sarcasm the other night-, but his flappei lauehtor has since regarded him yyitl anything but a iriomlly eye. Sue ar rived home early in the evening, ac companied by a young man. noted a; something of a dasher, both as a jaz zer and a simp. The evening passed off very pleasantly and speedily for 1 the two, and such a trifle as the passing of time faded to disturb theii j thoughts. They were in for a rude awakening, however, and this came inopportunely enough, just as they ’ were jireparing. for a protracted goodI bye at the door. ‘‘Oh, I say, Bertha,” father’s voice came drily from a room ! along the passage, “you’re surely nol going to let. Mr. Court well go ayvay without a bit of breakfast.” X.* 4© acting' statieO’inaßler of—well.

iiq matter —noticing a. young woman, with a. baby in her arms, walking up and down the platform, looking into ihe different compartments, respecttully enquired “First or second Madam?” “Oh!” exclaimed the lftdy» “its pot my baby at all/'