HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 7 October 1942, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent). ’ HOKITIKA, October 6. Mr J. Freitas, who has been' a patient in Westland Hospital for a long period, left on Tuesday for Christchurch, where he will undergo special treatment. Mr 1 J. Marshall is on ai visit to Hokitika. Mr and Mrs Turk, of Hokitika, left , on Tuesday on a holiday visit to . Christchurch. Private Tom Lee was a visitor to • Hokitika over the week-end. ( ■ Mr C. Donovan, of Okarito, is at : present in Hokitika. Mr Bejmytt. Social; Security Department, Hokitika, is on holidays, ’ and during leave, will undertake a ( two weeks' special course in trans- < port. He is attached to the Home ‘ Guard. The local Home Guard strength is ( maintained, the average attendance , at parades being nearly 120. The Women’s Auxiliary Service has four , platoons, and is well up to strength. - The canteen section is co-operating j with the Home Guard, prepare ( meals when the Guard is on whole- ; day parades. •. ( During the past few days several j members of the V.A.D. Service have received notices from the Manpower Officer to undertake a month’s training in hospitals. Some Hokitika members have received instruction to undertake training in the Greymouth Hospital. The V.A.D. has helped the local hospital out of a difficult position several times during the past few months, when there was an w flow of patients. The instruction fct the special course has taken some local members unawares., and the local committee is making inquiries. . Hokitika has so far collected 13 tons of waste paper, all sections of the community lending a hand. The paper was consigned to mills. Boy Scouts and schoolboys carried out the collection, with the assistance of local carriers, and the Borough Council. A further collection is to be made this week. Mr Green is the organising secretary. During the past few days, heavy rain has fallen throughout Westland, and, with the wind from the northwest. conditions became muggy and warm. The rain brought snow off. the mountains, and the Hokitika Rivet was in high flood. With the approach of spring tides, there was some erosion along the beach, a further stretch of protective fence being washed out. . As flooding in the rivers subsides, whitebaiters hope for good runs of fish, being disappointed with catches so far, which have been far less than last season. The best have been in the Paringa River, in the far soutn, the fish from which brought gooa prices at Christchurch. The flood in the Hokitika River has scoured out most of the groynes which fishermen will have to rebuild. Playing at Mahinapua finks over the week-end, the No. 7 golf med. match was halved bv Mclntyre and C 36/i 7 S: e 101/32—69; Burns 9 ’grt 7l i 2 W j-”" 99/27—72: Chesney 7?. ortxr 91/17 —74: Harner 93/18 —<o> vision, and Mrs Montague 105/3S-6J in the Bronze Division. Other scor . S SI&2: Mrs Ross Montague. 36 to 32: Mrs Ross. 36 to 33. —