HOKITIKA NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1927, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES.

(Out Own Correspondent). HOKITIKA, June 20. The cases to-day at the Supreme Court were only of a civil nature, and Mr Justice Adams was the recipient of white gloves. He congratulated the district, and the whole West Coast on the absence of serious crime. Only formal business was dealt with. A couple of divorce decrees were granted, together with a discharge in bankruptcy, and also applications probate in the estates of the late H. A. Thompson and the late R. Goudie. The Court rose at 10.40 a.m. There was a criminal ease before a Justice of the Peace (Mr W. J. Jeffries) this morning, being charges of theft of £5 14s, the property of William Jones, an old ago pensioner, of South Hokitika, -which were preferred against Thomas Timmins and George Casey. It is alleged the accused, who were remanded till Wednesday, went on Friday evening to Jones’s hut while he was in bed and took the money. Bail was refused. Hon. H. L. Michel, M.L.C., loaves for Wellington to-morrow to be present at the opening of Parliament on Thursday. The local Gun Club’s clay-pigeon contest, held at the week-end, resulted as follows: J. Mclntosh, Ist; J. McCormick, 2nd; J. J. Mclnt :sh, 3rd In the June bogey match for ladies of the local golf club the best cards were: Mrs Baird, one up; Mrs Staveley, one down; Mrs McFarlane, one down; Airs Burns, two down.

For the euchre tourney to-morrow at St. Mary’s Club Rooms the prizes arc exceptionally good, viz., first, a bedstead; second, a fender; third, set of flower vases; fourth, set of pots for plants. No doubt there will be keen competition for these useful articles. The Minister of Public Works has advised the Member for the District, Mr Seddon, that he will obtain a report as to the question of placing £2OO on the Estimates for Docherty Road, South Westland.

The weather to-day took a change for the better, the easterly wind being less in evidence. No doubt, the level of the rivers will presently show a drop. It was the junior A team of the Excelsior Football Club that came to grief on its journey to play a Rugby game at Ross on Saturday. The cause of the lorry going over was the driver’s swerve to avert a collision with a bush locomotive, belonging to the Kanieri-Hokitika Sawmill Coy. The loco was also going into Kanieri, along the line between two hills, which line road crosses as it enters the town-

ship. The engine whistled before it appeared, as the motor was just about to cross the tramline and in the endeavour to get across out of the way, the car swerved «off the side of the road and cansized. The vehicle luck-

ily fell on some blackberries, and nobody was hurt, but the motor was unable to continue the journey, and another'" had to be sent with the team tn Ross. The loco stopped suddenly, de railing the trucks it was drawing The team, with two m°n short, finished up with a. defeat at the hands of Ross bv 3 to nib

The power rights of Westland are being taken up by private enterprise, the company registered on the 7th hist.. Westland Power, Limited, having a capital of £lOO,OOO in £1 shares. Its office is in Wellington, Nos z 215-217, Lambton Quav. Subscribers are the folio-wing Wellington people:—S. Kirkcaldie. F. R. Hogarth. C. V. Birch, U. B. Williams, J. M. Hume, C. G. White, C. M. Bowden, A. T. Young, D. W. Virtue 1 share each. The object of the Company is to take over from the Westland Power Syndicate the benefit of their investigations and negotiations in connection with the development and supply of electric power in Westland, to carry on bus-

iness of electricians and general incidental. The rights with which the Westland Power Board have endowed the aforesaid syndicate are evidently worth something when they are being canitalised at the modest sum of £lOO.OOO. One wonders whether the residents will be sO generous in the future as they arc now in this connection.

At the Canterbury Education Board’s meeting it was resolved to state in reply to the Arahura Road Committee’s protest against having no choice in the appointment of teachers, that the Board itself had no option under the regulations. Authority was given for a renewal of snouting and down-piping at the school (£6). The foreman’s action in renewing tank stand and wash-basin was confirmed and the report adopted. It -was resolved to send an urgent telegram to the Department asking it to advise its decision regarding consolidation of schools in the Kokatahi district.—The Secretary (Air Kirk) stated, regarding Kokatahi, the Department had advised that it could not approve of the consolidation.