WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 24 September 1931, Page 7

WESTPORT NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.) WESTPORT, September 23. The district hockey championships are arranged to .take place to-morrow (Thursday) on Victoria Square. Ramblers (Westport) will play Cronadun and Rovers (Country champions) will play Umere. The winners of these games will engage in the final at 3.30 and Messrs Sara and P. Delaney will be referees. The Kaimai (1435 tons) and the Gabriella (1587 tons), bo h of which were paid off during the past month, will resume running. The former is due in Westport t°'day, and the latter loads at Newcastle next month for Napier and Gisborne. The following are the nominations and handicaps for the whippet races to be held this week-end: —Open Flat, 200 yards: S. Scott’s Wee Mac 15yds, J. McManus’s Lady Brewer 21yds, W. Kissell’s Rumpty 22yds, F. Keating’s Heather Bell 22yds. Maiden Flat, 150 yards, E. Marr’s Cedar’s Hope 12yds, J. Raynor’s Flying Cloud 15yds, D. Thomas’s Glideaway 13yds, J. McManus’s Spring Boy 12yds. Open Hurdles, 200yds: J. Raynor’s Tom Pepper 15yds. F. Keating’s Flying Buck 17 yds. Nursery Handicap, 100 yards: D. Thomas’s Brotaze Eagle, G. Elley/s Heram Bell, Al. Dowd’s Miss Aluffet.

With the temperature becoming warmer, whitebai ( t are more plentiful, and good catches of late have been recorded.

The numbers .of children receiving dental treatment at the clinics in the Westport district arc as follows: Westport 378, Denniston 95, Burnett’s Face 60, Waimangaroa 49. Seddonville 49, Karamea 64, Kongahu 4, Li t,tle Wanganui 9, Wa'ngapeka 5, Oparara 13, Ara pito 3. As a result of a trial Rugby match played at Granity in which Town defeated Country by six points, to nil, the following side has been chosen to represent the district in the contest for ( the Primary Sch/ools ’ Shield against the West Coast representatives on a

date not yet decided upon:—Henderson, Layfield (Granity), Brown, Kilkenny (S’. Canice’s), Robinson (Westport), Neighbours, Dalzell (Waimangaroa), Croudis (Burnett’s Face), Gregory, Coyre (St. Canice’s.), Simonsen (Millerton), Neill, Hunter (Westpet), Hettinger, Mullan (Waimangaroa). Emergencies: Skilton (Westport), Neilson (Granity), Ryan and O’Cdnnor (St. Canice’s). All School Committees in the district resent the decision of the Education Department in regard to the extra cost for dental services to the children. Denniston and Millerton have decided not to pay the charges. The matter will be further dealt with at a meeting of Qommittees called for Westport on Saturday next. Capitation and other allowances to local school authorities will also be discussed. The attitude of the Depar meat in refusing dental advice to the Alillcrton children will come before the meeting. Afessrs Pollock and Anderson will - represent the Denniston School at the conference, and. an effort is to be made to secure representation from the Karamea district. The Technical High School Tramping Club, in charge of Mr E. R. Williams, Airs Williams and Miss Anderson, made a successful ascent of Mount Rochford recently. The pupils enjoyed the outing thoroughly.

Air and Mrs J. Prince, after visiting Blenheim on the occasion of the Rugby match, proceeded to the Kaikoura district and were accompanied on jthe trip by their daughter, Sister May Prince, of the Pc’one Hospital. Nineteen co-operative parties working in the Greymouth district produced 104,200 tons of coal during the past year, says the annual report of the Mines Department. F,or the same period the Sjtate coal business, showed a profit of about £BOOO. The steamer Matai, on her customary tour of jthe lighthouses, arrived in port

in charge of Captain Burgess, took in a quantity of bunker coal, and later Proceeded to Wellington. She will visit the lighthouses on route. Members of the Westport Fire Brigade, who live at the station, have installed a wireless set. Professor Speight, of the Christchurch Aluseum, who arrived in West- . port by the Government steamer Matai, left to-day by service car on | return to Christchurch. i Master Cyril Hutchens, a pupil of I the Westport Technical High School, 1 gained first prize and a silver medal jat the Wellington Winter Show for a model aeroplane. The Westport Fire Brigade is prac- ' tising assiduously for the annual West Coast Demonstrations, to be 'held at .Westport next month. 1 Air Lory Thompson returned last 1 evening from Rotorua, where he attended the funeral of his late mother. When the Government made its demand for £6 15s a quarter for drugs, etc., for use at the dental clinic at Westport, the Committee replied that as it had just had to find £lOO for the ' new clinic building, approximately £3O ; for furnishings and a further £4O anInually for upkeep (lighting, cleaning,

laundering and heating) it could not immediately find £6 15s a quarter but would meet its obligations as soon as finances were available.

Andy Phillips is now at the Sergeant ’s Hill Hotel, where a welcome awaits all.—Advt. Have you s een Jeff’s new bar! —Advt. Morgan’s Pictures “The Cohens and Kellys in Africa,” Universal’s newest feature length talkie comedy in which Charlie Alurray and George Sidney run rampant in scenes which abound in thrills as well as laughs, will be presented at the Victoria Theatre this (Thursday) afternoon at 2.30 and tonight at 8. The story deals with the CohenKelly expedition into the heart of the dark continent to hunt ivory to boost their needy business fortunes. The expedition is led by a talkative but amateur explorer, Windjammer Thorn, who represents himself as one of the world’s greatest authorities on Africa. “Cohen’s and Kellys in Africa is the season’s biggest laugh. Vera Gordon and Kate Price are seen in the roles of the wives. Supporting pictures are “News Reels,” Oswald Cartoon, Strange As It Seems, and “Ooh La La Summerville” comedy. Reserves at Morgan’s, near Theatre. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. Another brilliant performance by Norma Shearer, the screen’s most exquisite star, in “Let Us Be Gay,’’ Metro-Goldwyn all talkie, at the. Victoria Theatre on Friday, Saturday and Monday, also a matinee on Saturday at 2.30 p.m., supported by Alarie Dressier in her finest and funniest part, Rod La Roque, Gilbert Emery, Hedda Hopper, Raymond Hackett, Sally Fillers. Be wise and book your seats early at Morgan’s, near Theatre.