HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 30 April 1942, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent; HOKITIKA, April 29. The funeral of the late Daniel Ryan took place at Hokitika Cemetery this morning. Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Mary’s Church and the service at the graveside was conducted by Rev. Father Finerty. Many beautiful floral tributes were received, and friends were present from many parts of the West Coast. Mr. Brownrigg, who has been the Manager of the Hokitika Branch of Robert Francis, Ltd., has been transferred to the Greymouth Branch, where he will be Manager. Mr. and Mrs. Brownrigg left for Greymouth this morning." For one of Hokitika' Borough Council’s vacancies, Mr. Heaton Claremont Peart has been nominated by Messrs A. C. Armstrong and W. E. Richards.

At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, before Mr. G. G. Chisholm, S.M., William Tyler Herbert was charged with a breach of the oil fuel regulations. Evidence was given by Constable D. Stuart that on February 15, he received a complaint that a car load of Jehovah Witnesses were going from house to house in Weld Street, Hokitika, preaching the Gospel. On investigating, while he did not see defendant, witness interviewed defendant’s wife, who informed him that petrol that was being used to convey the party from Harihari had been pooled by car owners belonging to the sect, and thus the trip had been undertaken. Gilbert Buchanan, Postmaster, Ross, produced a petrol license issued to Herbert, which was for seventyeight gallons per annum, of which four gallons per month was for car use, to enable the defendant to make weekly trips to Harihari township. The defendant, giving evidence, said he could sei? no wrong in using” petrol which he had saved up, as part of his license was to run a petrol light in his house, and this did not require so much petrol in the summer as in the winter months. Fining the defendant £5, with costs, tiie Magistrate stated that when petrol was granted, it was to be used solely for the purpose as set out on the license, and the defendant had clearly committed a further breach of the regulations by driving his car from Harihari to appear in Court.

For employing a person not enrolled in the General Reserve, Robert Ford and Company, Ltd., was fined 20s and costs. Mr. M. B. .James, for the Company, said the reservist, Robert Neville Jones, was employed when he was a youth, and there was a mistake as to his age of two years. He had been so long in the employ of the company that the manager did not doubt the lad's age, or make an inquiry for his enrolment book. The reservist had been prosecuted recently at Port Chalmers for failure to enrol. Sergeant Brown said the Police did not desire a heavy penalty. For failing to give way to traffic on his right, Jack Stuart Evans was fined 20s with costs 10s. and for having no warrant of fitness, he also was fined 20s with costs 10s. For riding a cycle on the footpath, George Campbell was fined 10s with 10s costs, and the following were each fined 10s with costs for cycling without lights after dark:—Robert Ireland, Harold Ashton Woods, James Carroll. Alfred Wilfred Arnold, Albert Cooper, George William Holley, John Henry Selby, Henry Jones and William Henry Jones. Charged with permitting prohibited persons on licensed premises, at the Occidental Hotel, the licensee, D. F E. Freitas, w<as fined £2 and costs 10s. Mr. M. B. Jamgfijsaid the prohibited person was a nofse trainer employed by Freitas to train one of his horses, and on coming to the hotel, Freitas gave him a drink. On a second charge of permitting a prohibited person to remain on the premises, the licensee was fined £2 with 10s costs. Sergeant Brown said that in this instance, a prohibited person, employed on the Hokitika wharf, met with an injury and was taken to the hotel to receive attention the wife of the licensee' attending to his injury, but the licensee himself did not know the man was on the premises. For breach ot a prohibition order, fines of 20s with 10s costs were imposed on George Wm. Holley and John Woods, while similar fines were imposed on them for being found on licensed premises, and, in addition, Woods was fined similarly for drunkenness. At the annual meeting of the,Fire 1 Board, Mr. A. R. Elcock was reelected chairman. Others present

were: Messrs J. J. Mclntosh and A. H. La',wn. Supt. Ross also was present. Mr. A. H. Lawn (Government member) congratulated Mr. Elcock unopposed as Mayor. S-lb Elcock on being elected unopposed as Mayor. The Annual Statement disclosed a credit of £lOB/15/11, allowing for payment of £lOO towards a fund for a new station. Fixed deposits stood at £947/16/9. The estimates were approve'd . <at £614, tile levies • being: Borough Council £284, insurance companies £284, Government £5O, a reauction of £3 for each contributor. The annual report disclosed only two fines for the year and no cover on the> garage or motor car and trailer. On the Whitebait Factory and plant there was no insurance. Superintendent L. Ross said in the fire bell tower, two upper portions required attention as -did No 1 Station. Authority was given for work to be carried out to the station, and for a’ report to be obtained on the cost. Air. T. W. Duff was voted to the chair at the monthly meeting of the Borough Council, and the newly elected Mayor, Mr. A. R. Elcock, was sworn in. Cr. C. Calarai was elected Deputy Mayor, and ' Cr. W. H. Stopforth was elected chairman of the Finance Committee. The Mayor paid >a tribute to thf late Mr. G. A l . Perry, who had been an examplary citizen and had maintained steady progress in. the town. The members stood in silence as a tribute to the memory of the late Mayor. The Council granted a 5 per cent, increase to all members of the staff, in accordance with the Court order. It was resolved to install a four inch majn to connect, the emergenqy pumping tpl,‘ant( /with .the main in Stiiatford Street. Accounts totalling £BOB were passed. It was resolved that the Mayor’s hondrium be £lOO per annum, payment to be quarterly. Cr. J. Fox forwarded his resignation from the Council owing to his residing out of the town. The resignation was received with regret, and the Council placed on record its appreciation of his services. On the motion of the Mjayor it was resolved to place on the minutes a record of appreciation of the services rendered to the town over a’ period of 31 years as Mayor, by the late Mr. G. A. Perry. Cr. G. Heinz resigned the position of Chairman of the Works Committee, and Cr. S. Havill was appointed. It wfas agreed to have a joint meeting of the Works and Reserves committees next Monday for an inspection, with a view to carrying out a scheme of works. Abbattoir fees for the month amounted to ££9B/10/11. The Sanitary contractor notified his desire to terminate. the contract on July 31. The Council set up a small committee to consider the matter, and decided to call tenders for the work. The matter of tar sealing the street fronting the Defence Hall was referred to the Chairman of Works for attention. The Hospital Board applied for refund of part of extraordinary water supply fees for the period 3/9/41 ito 11/3/1942, this being the period during which the Board’s own pumping plant was out of order. It was agreed to meet the Board’s request and, credit the Board’s account with a refund of its waiter fees. It was decided to prepare Camp and Tancred Streets for future tar-sealing. The Treasurer’s statement showed, receipts £793/ 1/1, expenditure £7lO/0/1. Accounts amounting to £1133.

F. Schroder, Brittan Street, applied for permission to instal a septic tank.—Granted, subject to the usual conditions.

A. Sumner .Sewell Street, applied for transfer of lease of reserve to H. Heppendtalll—Agreed to. The Director of Kanieri-Hokitika Sawmills Ltd., applied to subdivide section 1223, Fitzherbert Street town of Hokitika, inito two equal parts, each containing an area of 20 perches with a frontage of 82i feet. —Approved.

Mrs Kathleen Coles, Gibson Quay, wrote asking that footpath between Livingstone Street and Jollie Street adceive attention.—Referred to Works Committee. Mrs. 'E. King, Fitzherbert Street, applied for a tar-sealed crossing opposite her residence in 'Fitzherbert Street to extend from the bitumen highway to the kerb a distance of 15 feet by 9 feet and undertaking to pay the cost.—Referred to the Works Committee. The Abattoir report was as follows: Stock slaughtered for ithe month of Mattjch amounted to !29 iaows, 37 heifers, 49 bullocks, 277 sheep,, 108 lambs, 20 pigs, 1 cialf. Condemned, , nil. Feesi collected for period amounted to £9B/10/11. Fees col-

lected for corresponding period last year amounted to £B2/9/6. The Borough foreman reported the average depth of water in the reservoir lor the month was 7 feet. Tar sealing was doge as follows: Revell Street from Weld Street, 12 feet wide, Hamilton Street full width from Revell to Sewell Street; Commenced Weld Street from Revell to Tancred Street a width of 15 feet. The following footpaths were tar sealed: Revell Street, wast side from Gold Band Taxis to Gibson’s Quay; Wharjf Street, west side from Gipson’s Quay to Camp Street; Camp Street, south side from Wharf Street to Revell Sereet; Hamilton Street both sides from from Revell Street to Tancred Street; Tancred Street U chains south of Hamilton Street; Fitzherbert Street from Stafford Street to Westland Breweries; Stafford Street, one chain west of Fitzherbert Street. Three days were spent repairing leaks on Kanieri Lake pipe line, and one day scrubbing out reservoir and clearing growth from enclosure and on pipe line from reservoir, a distance of 25 chains east. Repaired leak on Cemetery Hill through lead wool blowing out, a service in Fitzherbert Street at McDonalds with a new stopcock; water service Jollie Strett at King's residence, a new service in Weld Street at Ford’s property was put in. During ,the month itwenty-threte l 12in concrete pipes were made.

Streets and footpaths: Chipped and prepared: Hamilton Street between Revell and Tancred Streets for tar sealing; Fitzherbert Street, footpath between Stafford and Hampden Streets. Chipped: water table Hampden Street south side between Bealey and Hall Streets; and water table Tancred Street, between Weld and Stafford Streets. Asphalt was mixed and filled into pot holes in Revell Street and Fitzherbert Street.