LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 7 August 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Employees under the No. 5 Scheme at Greymouth comprise 13 single and 17 married men.

Fox Trot Championship of West Coast at Kiwi Football Club’s Ball, Soldiers’ Hall, Hokitika, August 12. — Advt.

Nine building permits of a total value of £2,654 were issued by the Greymouth Borough Council luring the month of July, 1936.

Brunner League Club’s Annual Ball. Wallsend Hall, Friday. ~ August 21. Rhvthm Dance Band. Novelties galore. Alonte Carlo. Modern and Oldtime Danees. —Advt.

At th e Grey mom h Alagistrate’s Court, this morning, at 10 o’clock, the ARigisterlal inquiry inc, ’h e wreck of the “Abel Tasman,’ will be commenced.

Startling Book Bargains are procurable at B. Dixon’s Annual Sale. Hundreds of books at half and less than half the usual prices. Reading for the child or adult, at never before known low prices. Come in early.—Advt.

Books issued at the Grc-yirmith Municipal Library last month totalled 2,147. Membership rickets issued were 41, whilst 25 new books were placed on the shelves.

All men on Public Works will soon be using one of our famous Roadman’s Coats, so tear out our Advt., Page 2, and put it in your tobacco tin for future reference. —H. Hamer, Kumara. —Advt.

Fees collected at the Greymouth Municipal Abattoirs last month totalled £l2O 10s lid. The following stock was examined during the month: Cows 25 (condemned 1); bullocks 188 (condemned 1); sheep 528 (condemned 1); lambs 23, pigs 12. calves 32.

Carpetsl Carpets! Your floor covered cheaply and well at White’s £6OOO sale. Next month you will pay much more for the same goods. —S. Burnett White, West Coast’s High Grade Furnishac. —Advt.

A total of 6,081 ounces of gold was produced on the AVcst Coast and entered for export during th c month of July, 1936, being made up from the various counties as follows: —Bulller 173 ozs., Grev 1,302 ozs., Inanganua 2.155 ozs., Westland 2.451 ozs. The total Dominion production for June was 16.475 ozs., the export from ea-h province being: —Auckland 6,931 ozs., West Coast 6,081 ozs., Otago 1,774 ozs., southland 813 ozs., Marlborough and Nelson 804 ozs. Other (not including gold contained in or obtained from old jewellery, etc.,) i2 ozs.

Bargains in Brush Sets, Toilet Goods, Hair Brushes, Soaps, Afanicure Sets, Wallets, Hand Bags, Purses, China Vases and Ornaments, Music Cases, Collar Boxes and hundreds of other useful lines are procurable at half the usual prices. These must be cleared before new Xmas stocks arrive. Visit B. Dixon’s Annual Sale now.—Advt.

Hon. R. Semple, in Parliament, informed Mr K. J. Holyoake, ALB., that the Karamea protection scheme is estimated to cost £70,000, and that th s will be provided out of the I’ubnc Works Fund together with a subsidy Fund, for -each man employed. The Alinister of Public Works sab! that ■the necessary surveys and preliminary work had been carried out by the Public Works Department. The County Council was to make the necessary arrangements with the landowner to put the Department in possession of land on which work was to be carried out. It was at present dealing with that matter, but arrangements were not yet finalised. A 7 ar‘.ous points concerning actual •engineering questions had also been referred to the County Council's consulting e ngincer, whose report was not vet available. As soon as this report was received, and the landowners had signed, the work could proceed. The Government had no! been responsible for any delay whatsoever in gelling the work under way.

Well-chosen curtains convey a message of welcome and good cheer and add a note of refinement to the home The very latest in curtain materials of soft shimmering materials have just arrived from the English manufactur ers and are on view at Harley’s. Every curtain fabric is marked in prices that will meet the requirements of all. Now is the moment to make your selection —Harley and Co. the complete Horn/ Furnishers.—Advt,

In this year’s estimates a further grant o £lOO to the parents of the Johnson quadruplets is provided for, in addition to £75 voted and paid last year. During the week-end, a party of members of the Vest Coast Alpine Club will visit Arthur’s Lass, where exhibitions are to b>_- given by Colin Wyatt. Captain of the British skijump’.ng team for several years, and o.re of Europe’s best sk’.-ers. Fountain Pens, Propelling Pencils, Pencil and Pen Sets, Boxed Stationery, Writing Pads. Dressed Dolls and hundreds of odd lines are offered at specially low sale prices at B. Dixon-s Annual Sale. View our window displays. —Advt. The Fields Division Competition, conducted n conjunction with the W-ost Coast A. & P. Association reSll |ted : —F. .1. Frankpitt (Coal Cretk) 19 points. Ist; Mim-han Bros (Cobden) 12 points, 2nd; Pryce Hamer (Totara Plat) and Kennedy Bros. (Totara Flat), equal, ft point-. 3rd. Charged with failure to maintain his wife and infant child, Peter William And'-r.-on who was arrested, at. < t ri-vmout li on a warrant issued front ('ll r-1 <■ h urch. appeared before Air AL .1. l-'ogarty. .Ll’., in the Alagistrate’s Court, til Gr-"'ymouth yesterday. On tin- oppln-tition of Detective-Sergeant 11. [■!. Knight, defendant was re- - mamle.il until to-day. Foul pipes? Yes. they should be given, a miss! Nii le-s ati .anthoiny than Sir “ Robt. .Tones, the fnmoir- London physi- ; cian, points diat out in the “British . Aledical .Journal. *’ Moral: When that! '■ old pipe of yours becomes very toul — ah, and before that! —uLiuck it and buy ’ another. They’re cheap enough! But ‘ smokers as a rule are very careless, and ; will go on smoking a pipe till it oozes “juice.’’ Smoking a pipe like that is ’ asking for trouble! The quality of the tobacco has a lot to do with pipei fouling. If a brand is rank with nicotine (many are!) its constant use will foul anv pipe quickly. Is it wise to smoke such tobacco—when you can get at the nearest tobacconist's shop toasted blends of the finest quality, sweet, cool and fragrant, and (treed from excess of nicotine by toasting) pure as they are delicious? But mind! the only genuine toasted tobaccos are: ’ Cut ‘Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Naw Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold'and Desert Gold. No finer or less harmful brand are manufactured!

The Grev Countv Council has been advised by the District Engineer of the Railways Department, that iwould be inadvisable to shift the Matai station, owing to the grad.ent on the line at that particular place. Representations were made som e ume ago that the station should be moved, several hundred yards north of the present site, in order to obviate the flooding of the access road, whw.h arises through the overflowing or Ma’ tai Creek.

The weekly meeting of th e Runanga Debating Club was held in the School of Mines, Mr T. Walker presiding over a fair attendance. The following were th e subject matters for the evening: Impromptu debate. ‘‘That Military Training Should be Compulsory,” Mr R. Knight (affirmative), Mr L. 'Cook (negative); “That the Present Education System Accentua.es Class Welfare”. Mr S. Braithwaite (affirmative) Mr T. M alker (negative')- “That Convention isftlcally Hypocrisy”.. Mr AV. Caldwell (affirmative),'Mr L. Barnes (negative); “That Spiritualism is a False Doctrine”, Mr T. Howard (affirmative), Air AV. Wick (negative); “That Batchelors Should be "Taxed”, Mr N. Kinsey (affirmative), Mr AL O'Connell (negative). The remainder of the evening was spent on definitions.