HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 5 December 1940, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

[Our Own Correspondent] HOKITIKA, December 4. The m.v. Gael arrived yesterday from, Greymouth and Wellington. She sailed at midnight for Tarakohe to load cement, and on return loads for Wellington. • The inquest into the death or John C. Campbell on the sea beach on Sunday, November 24, will be resumed at the police station on Friday, at 3 p.m. Further Kanieri district enrolments in the Home Guard are: Messrs, A. T. Woolhouse, W. J. Radomski, F. A. Parker, L. F. Orpwood, J. L. Hagar and W. J. Fidder. Additional enlistments here are: C. B. P. M. Ateinson, P. A. Cornish, D. Med. Gordon, F. A. G. Grenfell. T. Growcott, R. E. Guthrey, W. F. Keen, F. Newman, J. H. Phillips, A. D. Reed, J. D. Sare, K. R. Shannon, S. E. Shaw, W. H. Smart, R. Stevenson, H. Wells —16. The Hokitika membership now numbers 143.

At its meeting last evening, the Executive of the Hokitika Branch of the N.Z. Labour Party recorded an expression of its sympathy with Mrs J. E. Thompson in her illness, members expressing the wish that she would have a speedy recovety. i Near the Flower Pot Rock, at Bruce Bay where a loading jetty is to be constructed, a start was yesterday made with the driving of temporary piles in order to test the nature of the bottom. At present a derrick is used at the site for tne loading of timber, and a jetty would serve far better, as the cargo has at present to be conveyed there in pontoons for loading in the outer harbour. With improved loading facilities, the export of timber from Bruce Bay should be for years be considerable.

The Public Works Camp in Bruce Bay district is shortly being abandoned, consequent on road work south of the Paringa being closed down, the men engaged being transferred either to Jackson Bay reading work or to works in the North Island. The Y.M.C.A. quarters at Bruce Bay will now be closed. The new road from Karangarua to Manakaiu is now open, and reduces the distance to be travelled between the two points by one half. Hitherto the old road via the river bed was used, and traffic will be glad to use the wider and better road which is a broad highway in keeping with the main road it joins up with. There was a large attendance at the euchre tournament conducted by the Returned Soldiers’ Association last night in ai'd of the local Patriotic Fund, which will benefit by the sum of £3 Is 6d. Prizes were won by Mrs Bryant, Mrs S. Brooks, Mrs J. Cameron, Mrs McSaveney, Mrs Lynch, Mrs H. Butland, Mr F. Carter and Mr T. Keown. Another tournament will be held next Tuesday night to raise funds to provide Xmas cheer to the Returned Soldier patients in the Mental Hospital.'