WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 11 July 1927, Page 7

WESTPORT NOTES.

(Our Owq Correspondent.) WESTPORT, July 10. Mr P. C. Webb was a visitor here on Thursday. Paddy is looking well, and is doing well. There are many old friends of his in Westport who will be delighted to hear this. in the stormy days of yore, Paddy was & much talked of man, but no one could ever say that lie had not the courage of his convictions. The same can be said to-day. Paddy has become a successful man, but has not sacrificed a conviction. Upon inquiring at the/ / Hospital about Mr E. Holden, wEb was placed there on Tuesday, suffering from diabetes, it was slated that his condition was unchanged. The activities of the Committee engaged. upon the 'work ofi securing funds for a Maternity Ward will not relax with the holding of the Paddy’s Market. They have other projects in view. The first important one, of course, is the production of “Mariotte.” Rehearsals arc going with a swings which augurs well if or -its success. Those engaged are enthusiastic, and cnThusiasm carries to a successful issue.

The seven delegates from; Denniston who attended a conference with the Mine Owners at Christchurch, returned to Westport on Thursday. The conference discussed the question of truckers and shiftmen working on I back Saturdays. The question has been referred back to the men, and finality on the point is expected to be reached in about a fortnight’s time. At the usual euchre tournament in the Friendly Societies’ Hall, the following won prizes: Ladies, Mrs Craddock 1, Mrs Llansby 2; men, Mr liar Iry Hale 1, Mr R. McLean 2. Mrs |C. McDonald won the 45’s prize. Mrs .Marshall Neill has her pupil? well schooled up for the Grand Juven ile Recital to be held in Victoria Theatre next Friday night. The production, which is in aid of the Plunket Rest Room Fund, should be one of the best performances of this nature seen in Westport for some time. In all, there are over 50 performers. The Village Variety Entertainers staged a show at Denniston, and it proved a great success. Mr Beilby, President of the Bowling Club, thanked the audience for their attendance, and also the performers for the good show they had put on. Next Thursday the V.V.E. will put on a show at Millerton to raise funds for the Buller Soccer Association, to defray the expenses of playing a match for the Brown Shield. The following was the passengei list for Wellington by the Komata: Messrs W. Connor and Cowan (Denniston), W. Ward and L. Marquand;. Mcsdames Cowan and infant, Galvin, Pollock, Methven, Misses Sawyers, M. Blatch and Fox. The inward passengers from Wellington by the Komata were: Messrs Tait, Cerchie, Murphy, Kilkenny, Heelam, Cressey, Clarke, Pienard, Hunter, Master Hill; Mesdames Howarth and child, Clarke; Miss Harrison. Canterbury League authorities have written inquiring about a match against Buller League team. Mr R. James, manager at Westport for Messrs Newman Bros., and Mrs James have returned from an extensive tour of the North Island, including to Auckland, Botorua, Gisborne and > Napier. The card tournament, held in the Friendly Societies’ Hall on Friday by Buller Rugby Union was conducted free of charge .by the Friendly Societies Committee, which was warmly thanked by the Secretary, Mrs F. S. Hayes Mr J. Murphy, of the P. and T. Department, Wellington, arrived in Westport by the Komata. Mrs Wells, who has been visiting her son Mr A. Wells, of the Post and Telegraph Department, has returned to Reef ton. On Friday night the death took place in the Buller Hospital of Daniel Young, of Waimangaroa, an old and esteemed I resident. Deceased was a native ot Lanarkshire, Scotland, and had resided on the Coast for 52 years principally following gold mining. A brother, 1. G. Young, resides at Waimangaroa and a nephew at Denniston, while two brothers, Robert and Alexander, are living at Wellington and another brother at Hamilton. Two sisters reside in Nelson, Mrs Pressing and Mrs Corder. Deceased was a pation or the Turf, horses that raced under his colours being Young Perkins Prince, Ivanhoe and Master Trier. _ The English Literature Club met in st Andrew’s Manse on Thursday, with a good attendance of members and visitors. Rev. A. Miller lectured on the life and work of Rudyard Kipling (I 860 and a programme of readings, recitations, and songs from his works was given by members of the class and friends. A most enjoyable evening i was spent. On the motion of Mr Met- _ son, seconded by Mr Kerr, a ? vote of thanks was passed to Mi Miller 5 Roche left for Wellington bv the s.s. Komata. ‘Mr J. King, of Karamea, who has been visiting Millerton and Westport, < has returned to Karamea. Mrs Pascoe, of Russell Street, rel- turned on Thursday from a holiday , spent in Christchurch. ’ Mr H W. Todd has been re-elected a unopposed as parents’ re P re T e the Board of Governors of Westport )- Technical High School. Mr T C Brown, District Manager of , the Westport Coal Company who has been on a visit to Christchurch, has

returned. Miss Blatch has gone to spend her annual holiday of three weeks at the Empire City. Mr Cecil McNabb, accompanied by bis wife and child, have returned tc Karamea from Christchurch. Miss McNabb, of Christchurch, who has been on a holiday visit to Karamea and Westport, returns to Christchurch on Tuesday. The death took place at sea, while on his way from America to Africa, of Thomas Haden, a former manager of the Addisons Gold Mining Company. Mr R. Marshall, of the Railway Department, who has been on holiday in Auckland, has returned. Mr W. T. Slee has gone to Rotorua where Mrs Slee is at present, with her sister, Miss S. Snodgrass. Mrs Methven left by the Komata en route to Auckland. Miss V. Quinn is at Christchurch on anual holidays. _ Mr F. Roche is visiting Wellington. This is how the Blue Bloods at ’Omo enjoy themselves. The Duchess of Sutherland gave a costume ball at Hampden House on June 25th, to which the Duchess of Westminster brought a party, of which the women were dressed as babies and the men as nursemaids, who pushed the ancient perambulators containing the “babies.” Subsequently a change of costume took place, and the same people re-entered the ball room costumed as cocks and hens, the

latter laying eggs on the ballroom floor. One famous Society hostess, Mrs Dudley Ward, was rigged up as a donkey, and the Duke of Sutherland as a sheep. Although the cable does not state it, no doubt there were some goats there. But this is the sort of stuff which is considered sufficiently important to cable out. Probably some of our unemployed will thoroughly enjoy the joke. Watty Cressey gave a visitor to the pictures a ticket for another performance. The reason was this. lie was a stranger to Westport, and arrived tired out, but the hoarding announced that the picture for that night was one he wanted particularly to see. Unfortunately, he fell off to sleep, and slept right through the performance, even the National Anthem did not wake him, but the scuffling feet of the outgoing people did. His first thoughts were that a fire was taking place. Jumping upon one of the seats, he shouted out to the departing people, “Don’t crowd, keep calm; the fire has not broken through vet.” Watty came along, and explained the situation, and offered him a ticket for another night when - he might be able to keep awake.