WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 10 January 1928, Page 7

WESTPORT NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) WESTPORT, January 9. Tho monthly meeting of the Westport Branch of the Labour Party took place on Sunday evening, Mr. W .11. Woodcock presiding. Considerable business of a routine nature was attended to . It was decided that Mr H. E. Holland be nominated for the selection ballot and his name forwarded to the L.R.C. in time for their next meeting. Nominations for the executive were: President: Mr R. Semple; Vibe-President : Mr James Thorn; Secretary-Treasurer, Mr W. Nash. Mr T. Parfitt was nominated as executive officer for No. 8 area. Mrs Ryan, Secretary of the Social Committee reported that there was a profit of £2O from the social held on Boxing night. A vote of thanks was passed to Mrs Ryan and her fellow workers, and recorded in the minutes.

I The matter of electing officers was meAtioried, and it was decided that post cards be sent to members for the March meeting calling attention to same. No cards will be sent out for tho February meeting. An article appearing in a contemporary recently, comments upon a worct known as “Mora” indigenuous of British Guiana, and used there as railway sleepers, has been experimented with in England and South Africa, and has shown valuable properties for resisting the ravages of insects. As South Africa is especially mentioned, there appears isometKing strange in the information provided as South Africa!? railways are mainly built with steel sleepers. Tho utility of this will be grasped when it is learned that most locomotive on long distance runs have no ash pans and when the firemen are cleaning their fires, which they do while the engine is running, the ash, clinker etc., is dropped on the line. If the sleepers were of Mora, this would be impossible, unless they were non-combustible as well as insect resisting. The United Friendly Society’s have decided to discontinue their card tournaments for six or eight weeks. Due notice will be given patrons as to the date of resumption. Mr Ryan of the Gasworks staff, who was relieving J. Bentley, while of the latter wasT'on holiday, had the misfortune to injure his eye, necessitating medical attention and his admission to the hospital. The Watersirers picnic takes place on the fourth Wednesday in the prose tn month. (25th.)

On Sunday evening when a great number fo Westportonians were on the lookout for the monoplane, which it was hoped would glide along past Westport to Greymouth, an idea presetned itself to many. Why it was asked should a landing be preferred at Greymouth rather than at Westport. Our North Beach has been proved a convienent landing place. Four years ago, when a ’plane was here engaged in giving flying trips, there was no difficulty experienced in landing and no accident of any kind occurred. Should the aviators flying low along the Coast observe such a grand beach it is possible that they might effect a landing there. The Komata, which left for Wellington this morninjg, w?as filled to capacity and at the last minute several would-be passengers had to remain behind. Quite a. number were accommodated in shake downs. Although there has been a dry spell in Westport for a conisderable time there is no fear of the electric power giving out through lack of water. Last Monday the depth of the lake was 16 feet 4 inches and. it is probably down to about 15 feet by now. However in August the level was down to 5 feet 5 inches and yet the pewter was’ kept going- THo water level in the lake at present demonstrated very forcibly that the scheme is a success and that continued fine weather does not threaten our electric light supply. The danger to the scheme has 1 always been in the winter when the water in the catchment areas become frozen, but apparently from the way the lake has behaved during the last month or so. a light rainfall presents little danger. Since October the lake level has fallen four 'feet. For the month there was only the meagre rainfall of 3.13 inches, over a period of 10 days. The rainfall for the whole of tho year amounted to 66.52 inches.

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