LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 22 July 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Blackball Creek dredge return last week was 41 oz. in 125 hours.

Sales on the Wellington Stock Exchange vesterday were: Wool worths (N.Z.) ord. 13s 9d.

About £B9 was taken at Rugb.' Park on Saturday for the BullerWest Coast match at Greymouth. Only 21 passengers left Hok tika on the special train which ran for the match and only 16 travelled further than Kumara. 4/- in the £ off Warm Winter Coats during Coat Week at White’s Fashion Corner. —Advt.

John Patrick Hansbury was charged, on the information of Traffic Inspector B. R. Hill, that on June 7, at. Paroa, he did drive a Chevrolet ’car without a' driver's license, was convicted and fined £1 and 10s costs, by Mr. G. G. Chisholm, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court .at Greymouth yesterday. Legal action is to be taken against two military defaulters in the Grey district. After ignoring the usual notices, both men were advised bv “Gazette” notice to attend for medical examination, but failed to respond. The number of defaulters in the Grey district, only two since the commencement of the ballots for military service, is low. compare:l with the defaulters in other districts. The training of auxiliary firemen at Cobden is now considerably advanced, and the seven men are taking a keen interest in their work regularly attending the Sunday morning parades. The auxiliaries should prove invaluable to the Brigade, which comprises only 12 members who have a much larger populated area under their control than before the Brigade was amalgamated with the Greymouth Brigade. Will our numerous customers throughout Westland please note that we are open for business all day, every Saturday, till 9 p.m.—H. Hamer, Kumara.—Advt.

Reference to puoils leaving school before the end of the year was made by the Principal (Mr W. M. Stewart) in his monthly report to the Gre> ■ mouth Technical Hji School Board of Managers, last evening. Mr Slewart stated: “In the five weeks which have elapsed since the last meeting of the Board, 19 pupils have been withdrawn—l 3 bo vs and 6 girls; of these eight have left the dst Let. while most of the others have left school to po into emp’ovment locallv. I have to draw attent’en to the tec! that the practice of withdrawing pupils in their school course is one? more becom’ng too frequent. While it is recognised that war conditions make it inevitable that more pup’ls must leave school to take the places of those who go on active serv’ce. it cannot be too often or too strongiv impres'cd unon parents that to remove a pupil in the m’dd’e of the second vear does not give the pupil a chance.”

A five which broke out about 6.40 o’clock last e-'onino- at the premises of the Petros Tile Co . Ltd . in Army Street, considerable damaged a corrugated iron building in which roof-

ing tiles are moulded and dried. The building, which is owned bv. J- , A. Hart, Ltd., was used mainly for drying off tiles, and it is thought that the outbreak may have peen caused bv coke braziers, of which there were several on the premises. Fortuiv.itely there was a strong easterly w.n'l blowing at the time, and the mam premises of J. A Hart, Ltd., only a few feet from the damaged building were not affected Othei’ bu Idings at the back of the premises, whicn consisted of two rooms, were un.-.am-ayed In addition to a cons demon- 1 quantity of t’les hemo 1 dried off a stock of cement and sand was lune • bv water, whilst a moulding mcc.nne also suffered. Detail* of the insurance were not available last evening, the headouarters of the romranv betn" in C'hr’stchurch. Several cutbreaks hT'e previously occurred on the same premises »

The temperature at 9 a.m. yesterday was 35 degres, a rise of four degrees on Sunday’s record low temperature, but there was an absence of white frost due to a' cloudy, sky. The dav was fine and sunny, with a milder temperature than that experienced in recent days. Sunday’s frost did considerable damage to household gardens and domestic water supply svstems were completely frozen. I Yesterday, plumbers, both qualified rnd amateur, had an extremely busy I time repairing burst pipes. The barometric pressure continues to be high, Saturday’s noon reading of 30.69 ins. being the highest recorded at Greymouth for 15 years. On Saturday so intense was the cold at Rewanui that the hydraulic system operating the door shutes to the binns was out of operation for the first time since its installation. It was after 10 a.m. before they were in working order.