HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 17 March 1932, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

(Uui Own Correspondent.) HOKITIKA, March 16. The Hokitika Bowling Club proposes sending a four rink team to Greymouth on Saturday afternoon to play a. return game for the Reynolds Badges. The trawler “Monic a IL’ arrived in port yesterday and to-day with a considerable quantity of fish on each occasion. Tho Okarito Dve Mile Beach Gold Dredging Company’s ieturn for tho week ending Saturday was 640 z lOdwt. for 118 hours’ work. There will be a day railway excursion from Christchurch to Hokitika on Easter Sunday under the auspices of the Lyttelton Social Club. Nominations for all events (including two trotting races) at the Easter Wednesday meeting of the Westland Racing Club, close with the Secretary to-mo.row night at 8.30 o’clock. The Hokitika junior cricket team to play R 0.%, at Ross, will be selected from the following players:—Hughes, Toohey, Pierson, Diedrichs, Mitched, Laing, Jolly (2), Olson, Adamson Stapleton, Hughes, Barnhill. Hokitika will be represented at the rally of Girl Guides and Boy Scouts on Saturday, at Greymouth. A company of about twenty Guides and twenty Brownies with officers in charge, will bo travelling from Hokitika to take part. The local girls will present dancing and badge displays. The rally will be held in 'Victoria Park if fine and in the Drill Hall if wet. The m.v. “Gael” which left on Monday for Oku.ru, left there yesterday at 3.30 p.m. and arrived here this morning- at 6.30, with a cargo of 30 head of cattle from Messrs McPher* son. The vessel sailed at 5 p.m. foi another load of cattle, which will bo taken on to Greymouth. It was noteworthy that the stock landed to-day were in good condition. It is twenty years since the last lot of cattle shipped from Okuru were landed here, and what seems to promise a revival of this trade is apparantly at hand. The shipment, from Messrs McPherson Bros, and Mr A. Cowan, will be offered at Monday’s Arahura sale. If the cattle had to be driven up they would take three weeks on the journey, and would lose a lot of condition into the bargain. The Rector of Victoria School (Mr Menzies) has appealed to Mrs G. Perry (Mayoress) for assistance to help restock the State School library with books suitable for the scholars. Airs Perry has suggested that the public might be glad of the opportunity to contribute books to the school library, particularly ex-scholars in the town and district. Those willing to co-operate con’d send their gifts to the school or notify Mrs Perry when arrangements will be made to collect the books.

The annual State School fair took place at. the State School this after noon.