WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 13 December 1928, Page 7

WESTPORT NOTES.

(From Our Owu Correspondent.) WESTPORT, December 12. Miss Mui ray, outstations ITunket Nurse is at present visiting Karamea .-.nd will return cm Saturday. Councillor J. H. Powell of CharLi/on in on a business visit to Karamea. Mrs Lee of Christchurch, is at present on a visit to Westport to see her daughter, Mrs “Arthur Duthie, who has been admitted to the hospital owing to ill Health. Tho South African War Veterans Association met ojn Saturday evening to bid farewell to their comrade Mr J. J. Powick, who is leaving this district to make his permanent ’esiden&j in Palmerston North. hTe chair was taken promptly at 9.15 p.m. by tho President, Mr J. W. Jopo, who in' a very eulogistic speech said many Wiry nice tilings of the guest of the evening and on behalf of the association presented a very handsome and valuable tobacco pouch .veil filled with tobacco Other speaklira were Messrs A. Vincent, J. W. Curtis, W. Hart, G. Anderson and A-

Anderson. All epoke in glowing terms bf the work done by Mr J. J. Powick as the pioneer of the association and its first' secretary and of his good qualities both as a soldier and a marMr Powick very fi.elingly replied ♦.<* all that had Loen said of him, expressed thanks for the present and the spirit which prompted it and wound up with an exhortation to all members to stand fa'st by the association and to giw.' at all times, thein support in dividually and collectively to thei r elected officers. Many toasts were drank and <H<* times on the veldt were recall d by the re telling of incidents, bojth humourous and serious. At 1.30 the gathering finally brokZ» up, after many Auld Lang Synf A and expressions of good luck, all feeling th<( poorer by the departure 'of a good comrade. Nominations for the Westport .Athletic Association’s Christmas sports close with the secretary on Thursday December 13th. The Millerton miners have uriy made about thro® shifts in a fortnight A miner’s wife states that only one lull pay i.c. a fortnight, has occurred in the last thirteen months The Railway Department has put down a bore at the back of Methven’.* Hotel in Adderley Street, for the purpose of obtaining wat> ir lor the locomotives. "“’Water was struck at 18ft., but the bore w’as continued t* 28ft.. and from this depth, pumping resulted in a good flow of 1400 gallons per hour, being maintained. Twelve months back a bore was put down near the signal box; and water was obtai.nLd at a depth of 14 feet. A boro near the tanks was not so successful, the water having a tainted appearance as if from a swamp. This water flow is believed to be from the hills at; the back of Westport. Mr I). McWha has b>< n in charge of the boring operations. Asked whether he thought he would get a pressure flow if lie sank the bore considerably deeper, Mr McWha said it would likely b • brackish at the deeper levels.