HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 5 January 1940, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

(bur Own Correspondent! HOKITIKA, January 4, The m.v. Hokitika arrived in port yesterday and is loading timber for Wellington, and she is expected to sail on Friday/ A . former Hokitika President, Mrs Margaret X .Kaye, died recently at Westport. Deceased; aged 72, was the eldest daughter of the late Mrs T. Ward, of Hokitika and was a na-tive-of Charleston. Messrs T. S. Ward (Hokitika), R. F. Ward (Tauranga) and''W--E. Ward (Paeroa), are brothers, and Mesdames Wilson (Westport) and J. Morgan (Port Chalmers) ate sisters of deceased. The followihy<pupils of the Hokitika Convent were in passing; their . Junior Division examination in Home Nursing, conducted by the Red Cross Society— (H) —Mary Williams, Marie „Two»pey, Patricia Sullivan, Mary Moynih n*(H), Kathleen Minehan’ (H),/ Al ce Henderson (H), 3ose Harris/ J’(fen Schofiell (H),<sheresa Minehan H) Margaret McCormack (H),..- Vivi( pne Heenan (H), Patricia Foster (PJ Seena Dowell, Lena. Clements, Afca Thomson, Theresa . Keown,-. . Ngffie Harcourt, Elizabeth Hahn (H), Margaret Feeney, Myda Foster (H)-,<Una Warren. June Heenan (H). The!secretary of the Hokitika Sub-Centra Reports that certificates for the abotyi candidates in the Junior Division of. the Home Nursing, examination been, received" and will be presented as soon when the Coi\ent School assembles''‘after'the summer vacation. . . V 1 aid examination recently conducted by/Drs. Corbajf Aitken and ■zing passed: is A. B. Alaarthy, Mrs R, s, Mrs F. J. all, Mrs G. A. ss\N. WorthMrs Loader, Cornish, Miss '■ V. Smith,. Mrs J. Stewart, Mrs T. Brown, Mrs C. P. Goldstone, Miss Betty Cook, Mr J. G. Cameron, Mr C. Barnhill, Mr J. H. Habgood St. J’ohn’s Ambulance Association: Miss B, McCarthy, Mrs Kerr, Miss M. Nilsson, Mr Mclntyre, Mr Bade, Miss D. Mycroft, Miss K. Cornish, Miss B Delbridge, Mrs Bade Miss Renshaw Miss O. Campbell, Mrs Linklater, Mrs Mycroft. Special services will on Sunday be held by the local churches in connection with the Centennial. A team of six rinks from the Bowling Club will’visit Runanga on Saturday and play a two rink pennant game, the other four rinks meeting in club competition. Ribbons issued by the Internal Affairs Department are now availab'e at the County Office for those early pioneers who have! resided for 75 years or .’more in New Zealand. Last week’s' rainfall was less than one-third of an inch, while there was 38 hours of sunshine. Last month the planes of N.Z. Air Travel Ltd. carried 560 passengers, 48781bs of mail and 33881bs of freight and the machines in all flew for 320 hours making 586 flights.

These figures indicate a steady expansion in the traffic of the company. On the Nelson run there were 116 flights, 235 passengers, 7641bs of mail and 10871bs of freight.: On the South Westland run there ...were 325 passengers, 41141bs mail, and 23061bs freight. . " * Gn the eve of -the departure of the Westland soldiers from Burnham camp an expression of, their gratitude to the residents,., especially the organisers of the Kanieri dance, io. kindness shown during the final leave period has been received from Sergeant Guthrey.- ' Last year’s local rainfall was little more than an inch- short of 101 inches being 98 44 inches, the lowest since ’1934 (89.&8ins) and 30.25 less than 1938. - The New Year week-end was wci. but there was a large crowd put. to welcome 1940. Heavy rain fell in the country areas during the holiday. It cleared ,up in mid-week, to-day losing sunny,’ and a large number travelled to Greymouth for the trots. The County Council has taken possession of its new offices in Hamilton Street. Though in existence for 02 years, the Council hitherto had not had a building of its own. In 1877 it was given the use of the old Provincial Offices which faced Sewell Streep, adjoining the original Supreme Court. When a building io house ’ the Government, offices ana courts was built in 1908 the Supieme Court and the offices used by the Council had to make way for the brick structure. The Supreme Court I was sold for removal, and became th- ' Supreme Hall, and later the Soldiers Hall. The County building was c.r- -! molished, and the local body secured ! temporary quarters in the Hosoit'il Board rooms.in Revell Street. Then it. moved to the old Lands and Survey building in Fitzherbert Street, which was used for almost thirty years, and ( now the Council has a buildiifg erec.ed by itself. ■ The death was announced fro n Auckland recently of Isabella, elded daughter of the late Mr Gerhard Mueller, CommAsioner or Crown Lands, at Hokit’ka in ihe ’nineties. Mr H. Harvey is on a holiday vi i* to Christchurch, as the guest of Mi and Mrs J. Horan. Mrs J. Davern, of Sale Street, is on a holiday visit to her neice, Mr; Smith, of Westport. On specially erected poles, flags <>i various nations have this week be n flown in connection with New Zealand’s centennial. The Government buildings, also beflagged, have hern floodlighted for the occasion. Many campers have been ln'"ev» < dence over the past few days at Lait Kanieri., The other evening a motor car n? longing to Mr P. J. Stephens, or Rimu, was converted by somebocy. being taken from Weld Street, and later was found in a creek on the northern town boundary*