HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 1 August 1934, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.)

HOKITIKA, July 31

The tender *of Messrs J. Adamson find R. Me Milkn, of Harihari, has been accepted by the West la nd County Council for the extension of Petersen Road and for the erecting of a temporary bridge over Back Creek. The contract price is £49 10s 8(1 A second tender for a. higher amount was also received.

There was only a third of an inch of rain here last week, while there was over fifty hours of sunshine.

Arbor Day is being observed here to-morrow as in other parts of the Dominion, the schools of the district marking the occasion bv the planting of trees.

Lambing is beeming general in this district just now. and in the course of the next fortnight there should be a considerable increase in the flocks.

At Ahaura live stock sale yesterday, 67 cattle and 120 sheep were offered to good competition, especially for beef, prime sorts making from 24s 66 to 20s per hundred, best heifers to 23s Gd. cow beef to 20s. The demand for sheep was not so good. A pen °f Canterbury wethers made 26s 6d and ewes 23s 6d. W. Jeffries and Co. sold ns follows: For Perry and Co. 5 steers at £8 15s, 1 do at £8 12s 6d, 2 do at £B, 4 heifers at £B, 1 do at £7 ss, 2 do at £7 2s Gd, 1 do at £6 ss. 3 cows at £5; for a client, 1 iunnor at £3 7s Gd. 1 do at £3 ss; for W. C. Finch. 2 steeds at £7 2s Gd, 2 do at £6 ss. 2 do at £6; for W. Jamieson, 2 steers at £9, 1 do at £8 17s 6d, 2 do at £8 12s Gd; for a client, 11 wethers at 26s 6s and 25 ewes at 23s 6<l.

Westland Rugby Sub-Union last

evening made arrangements for Sai nrdav’s Dittman Shield match here between Westland and Lake Brunner reps. the names of Messrs Cuthush. Breeze and Rutland being submitted Io the visitors for the choice of a referee; while the cnrtain-iniser will be Ross v. Excelsior juniors (Mr Collett referee). •!. Davidson was granted a transfer from School Io Kiwis. It was decided to write Merivale Club an appreciation of their recent visit and display, and likewise Canterbury Rugby Union. West Coast Union. advised the appointment of Mr D. Breeze as referee for the West Coast-Bush rep game at Groymouth. Permission was granted the School Club to send a primary team to Greymouth on Wednesday; also t'O play a primary school match for the Newman Snio'.r] against Greymouth at Hokitika on August 11th; and to send two High School teams to Greymouth on August 11th. At an U.S.A, meeting last evening it was decided to make a grant of £1 each to the Boy Scouts and Girl •Guides in recognition of voluntary services; to request the Boi'ough Council that, a separate plot be set aside in the local cemetery for the burial of deceased sof fliers; to send M:/s Buller a letter of thanks for her gift of a steel engraving of the Queen to be hung in the hall; to offer immediately two days’ subsidised work to all unemployed ex-soldiers in the district"; to appoint a committee comprising the President, Secretary, and .Messrs Ila’nt, Cooper and Robinson, with power to expend up to £35 on the most urgent repairs to the ha t; and to inform Ross Branch that only members who left New Zealand with the Expeditiona'ry Forces were eligible to wear badges. Mr A. Knowles, Blackball, wrote that he will be present at the reunion on August 10th with three performers who gave excellent items at a reunion recently held in Kunia-ra. The Disabled Soldiers’ Re-establishment Committee advised it had forwarded prizes—comprising various items of hand-beaten brasswork manufactured by disabled soldiers—by the m.v. Gael, and hoped the art union would be a great success. Advice was received of a reunion to be held in. Christchurch on August 11 of all ex-servicemen who left New Zealand in H.M.N.Z. transmits Nos. 4 and 11 (the Tahiti and Athenic with the Main Body). Headquarters requested a 'Return of the number *of ex-servic t emen who had contracted malaria] fever on active service and still suffer recurrent attacks. for providing statistics for the local branch of the British Medical Association. It is the accepted medical opinion at present, that after throe yeasts ’ residence in New Zealand a patient is no longer subject to malarial fever or its effects, and that there appears to bo good grounds for the suggestion that this opinion should be reviewed. The Secretary was Instructed to forward the information required. Notification was received from headquarters that the Canteens’ Board had allocated £lO to this branch, from the May instalment and the War Funds Council had forwarded a grant of £8 to the Westland Patriotic Association.