LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 19 November 1942, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The road between Waiho and VVeheka. which was blocked by a slio on Monday, is now ooen to tratfic again.

Entertainment de luxe. Challenge chops and dance, Nelson Creek Hall, Saturday next. —Advt.

A three-hour trial of all units of the Runanga E.P.S. will be held at an unsoecified time on Saturday. me Home Guard and W.W.S.A. will also participate.

Place the Plunket Fair, Town Hall, first on Friday’s shopping list. Be wise—be early.—Advt.

Hon P. C. Webb announced last night that the Health Stamps sold during October realised £5,162, compared with £3.115 last October. Auc: - land district led, with the sales and then came Dunedin, Invercargill, and Wellington.

A paper on the origin of co-opera tion was discussed when the Study Circle of the - Runanga Co-op. Women’s Guild met recently. Mrs. Oakley presided. Supper was bv the hostesses and the rest of the evening was spent in dancing.

It’s time to brighten up for Xmas. White’s suggest a smart hat. men selection is big and varied. Call today at White’s Corner. Your Fashion Centre. —Advt.

Twenty-two bales of waste paper for pulping have been sent to the Malaura mills in the last few days. Thera was another good response '••■-sterday, three more bales being packed at the Town Hall depot Three bales of rubber have also recently been despatched for t”ea..ment.

p J Gallagher, late of the Empire' Hotel, Seddonville, is now ‘‘mine host” at the New Commercial Hotel, Reefton, where old and new friends are assured of a hearty welcome — Advt.

Save Health— Vitality—Time for urgent wartime tasks. Guarding your health these days is an obligation not only to yourself and family but to the country’s war effort. Doctors and nurses are needed in the armed services. One wav to protect your health is to let a professional' laundry to your washing. ’Phone 136 and Westland Laundry will do the rest. —Advt.

Thirteen candidates for underviewers’ tickets, and twelve for deputies’, presented themselves for the annual examinations at Greymouth yesterday. They are drawn from mines in the Reefton. Brunnerton and Runanga districts'. Messrs J. MCVthur (Inspector of Mines) and J Hadcroft (District Manager of the State Mines Department) are supervising the examinations which will conclude to-morrow.

The badge of good citizenship—a rose on Plunket Day. Buy one tomorrow (Friday).—Advt.

The new system of fluorescent lighting was discussed at last evening’s meeting of the Grey Electric Power Board, when Mr. J. B. Kent asked the Engineer (Mr. Sinclair Trotter) about recent work in this field. He said that this lighting cast no shadows, and was the .latest development. The Engineer said that at present this system was beyond the reach of the ordinary consumer, although it might some time become the standard method of lighting.

The Greymouth Patriotic Fund now stands at £4ll 13s 6d. Donations are: Previously acknowledged £4OO 2s; Mrs Meagher, soldiers’ parcels, ss; Miss Jacobs, prisoners of war 10s; Mr. Fehsenfeldt, soldiers’ parcels 10s; F. Lawn, soldiers’ parcels £1; Mrs. Stewart, Xmas parcels £1; Mr., Mrs and Miss Chisholm, Xmas parcels, £1 10s; Mrs. H. Dodson, Xmas parcels ss; Mr. W. Barrow, .soldiers’ parcels ss; Pupils Technical High School, Xmas parcels £6; Donations of under 5s for prisoners of war 4s and 2s 6d^—Total £4ll 13s 6d.

Best British 80-inch Whitebait Netting, double mesh, 6/6 yard. Post free, from H. Hamer. (Kumara.— Advt.

The problem of securing suitable power poles was discussed at iast evening’s meeting of the Grey Electric Power following a report by the secretary (Mr Sinclair Trotter).on a recent conference of power noard secretaries and engineers in Christchurch. He said that the question of larch poles was raised, but he was glad that he did not experiment with larch poles, as these had not been given approval by other boards. Mr J. B. Kent raised the question of the use of kawaka for poles, but it was stated that this timber would probably not stand up to heavy Winds. The difficulty of erecting concrete poles, it was stated, was’ that steel to reinforce them was not ..available,

The Brunner Mine Workers’ Union, at its meeting on Tues'day, decided that the Wallsend Mine will work the two remaining back Saturdays, November 28 and December 12, before Christmas. This is in response to a request from the Mines Controller. The men will receive ordinary rate, despite an earlier decision to work the back Saturday, only if the rate of time and a half was paid. A. similar reply to the request was made by the Grey Valley and State Miners’ Unions, but the Dobson min-, ers will again consider the request at a bath-house meeting, probably this week. The State Mines Office has as yet received no advice regarding work on the remaining back Saturdays.

The Auckland Power Board has not connected a new subscriber for the last three! and a-half months, according to a statement made by the Secretary of the Grey Electric Power Board at its meeting last evening, when he was reporting on the recent conference in Christchurch of Power Board Secretaries and Engineers. The shortage of electrical power’ materials was discussed at the conference. The Engineer (Mr Sinclair Trotter), who also attended the conference, stated that boards which had not a sufficient supply of materials were now scratching round and trying to filch materials from other boards. Mr J. B. Kent said that he was glad the Grey Board had forestalled any problems by intelligent buying

The production of a new foodstuff to meet tropical war conditions, by the Dairy Research Institute, was announced'by Hon. J. G. Barclay last night. Mr. Barclay said 'that, one of the food problems in the tropics was .the supply of butter, because it melted, and it became quite unworkable. A request,was made for a substitute for butter, which would be an edible, pleasant nourishing fat, which could be spread on bread, line butter, under tropical conditions. The Dairy Research institute had produced a substitute in a short time. It consisted of sixty per cent, or butterfat, twenty per cent, of beet fat, and twenty per cent or dried milk, and it remained spreadable at a temperature of 105 degrees. It was highly nourishing, particularly, because of the incorporation of dried milk. An order had been placed _or a quantity, and if it proved successful in the Pacific, the way would be open for -the development of produc-tion—-Press Assn.