REEFTON NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 28 November 1927, Page 8

REEFTON NOTES.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

RE EETON, November 26

Mrs G. Re; 'nie of Granity arrived in Reeftua yesterday, on a short visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs J. Lawry.

Mr. and Mrs J. Mahon are at present on a short visit to Reefton.

Mr. Joe Byrnes left by this afternoon’s train for Ikamatua. Mr. J. Leonard is on a brief visit to Beefton.

At the meeeing of the Hospital Board, held on Thursday evening last, the chairman stated that Matron H. S. Hunt of Waiuta, who it was announced had been appointed Matron of the Westland Hospital, had d cided not to acecpt the later position, and would remain at Waiuta.

Mr. Arthur Wells of the P. and T. Department Westport, son of Mr. G. Wells of Times Street, Reef ton, who was ordered to Christchurch to undergo an examination by the Millitary ’Medical been instructed to undergo an operation on Monday concerning wounds received during the war.

Mr. Roy Don, of Cronadufe visited Reefton to-day.

In Saturday’s issue in the report re the Inangahua Hospital Board a riotiee of motion read “that the Timber Workers ’ Union should be treated on a five per cent basis’’ instead of fifty per cent, as was stated at the meeting. Work is not too plentiful in Reefton at present, the coal mines having worked slack times for a considerable period, but it is now reported that the Beefton pit has a good order, so that good time will be obtained till Xmas.

i Concerning the accident which befell Mr. Herbert Lee at Wakefield on Monday last, the Nelson Ev mng Mai) says that Lee, who was was driving from Reefton to Nelson, apparently did not see the train, which was aproaching from • the opposite direction, until he had taken a turn in the road which crosses the railway line in the. shape of an S. where long skid marks showed a hard appliance of the brakes. The car struck the train resulting in the derailing of two more trucks immediately behind the engine. The vehicle itself was carried through the cattlestops, and literally broken up and turned upside down, with Lee under the wreckage. So. badly was the car, a Studebaker, smashed, that one who was on the spot immediately after the smash said that it was u chewed up to matchwood with only one wheel whole.”

The construction of residences for some forty men at the Twelve Mile, Bruce Valley is being taken as an indication that the Government intend proceeding with the Westport-Inan-gahua Railway line with more vigour than has ever bee displayed. At th' meeting of the Progress League on Monday evening, the President, stated that during the past year a sum of over £2OOO had been paid in coal royalties and none of this had been paid to the local bodies the whole amount going into the conconsolidated fund, and yet the Government had done nothing to open up coal areas. In New South Wales, quite a difefrent policy was adopted by the Government, there. The N. S. W. Government prospected the land for coal, and when found, a Tease of the land was granted and th° cost passed on to the lessee spread over a term of years, at so much rer year. This was a policy that he thought could be followed by the Now Zealand Government with profit to all concerned.