LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 23 November 1942, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A London cable records mining share sales as follows: New Guinea Is 41d; Mt. Lyell Is 9d.

National Savings deposits at the Greymouth Chief Post Office last week totalled £399 11s 4d. This was £222s 8s 8d short of the quota. Five Greymouth members of the D.E.S.C.. left on Saturday to undertake a training course at a mobilisation camo.

Reservations for rail travel are not being accepted for more than 14 days before it is intended to commence tha journey.

The record sum of £5 for one rose was paid by a Greymouth businessman during the Plunket Society’s rose day appeal on Friday. £47 15s was the total received from the sale of roses.

The erection of prefabricateu houses in the Dominion was envisaged by Mr M. Moohan, Chairman of tho Rehabilitation Board, in an address in Dunedin. Mr Moohan stated that, an experiment in the building of such houses had already been started. The method is much used, in the United States.

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

Bicycle tyres below the 26 x 1 3-8 size may now be purchased without a permit. Mr C. S. Sapsford, chairman of the Christchurch Bicycle Tyre and Tube Control Committee stated last week. Mr Sapsford said that a few of these “junior” sizes were probably still available at some retailers. The common sizes which are under control) .are 26 x li, 26 x 1 3-8, 28. x 14. and 28 x 1 3-8.

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.

In reply to representations that Home Guardsmen who use their own cars in attending parades he supplied with petrol free of charge, the Minister of Defence (Mr Jones) states that it has now been decided that members of the Home Guard unable to reach training centres in a reasonable time on foot shall be allowed to render alternative service, in the form of camp training. This will be held at times of the year suitable to local conditions.

A drive- for books and magazines for distribution to military camps was conducted by the Greymouth Boy Scouts, on Saturday. Details of the material collected were given bv the Scoutmaster (Mr G. W. Russell) last night and are as follows: Stiff cover novels 760, paper-back novels 336. digests 61, assorted magazines 672; total 1829. Books not suitable for distribution totalled 182. Mr Russell said, however, that for the most, part the material received was of a good type-, and he considered that the drive had been a successful one.

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.

Both the Dutch and New Zealand Governments will be represented at the ceremony in connection with the Okarito tercentenary on December 1.?. The party. 14 in number, which will arrive at Hokitika by a special railcar on December 11, will be entertained in the evening bv the Borouen of Hokitika, and the County of Westland. The Prime 'Minister (Hon. P. Fraser) is expected to arrive bv air at Franz Josef on the Saturday morning.

Grevmouth Patriotic Committee acknowledges donations as follows:--Previously acknowledged £447 12s 6d, balance collection “Packet Day’ Committee £1 19s, Municipal Band £l, Greymouth Borough employees (part staff) 14s, proceeds carnival Victoria Park 3/10/42 £B7 4s 4d, Greymouth Women’s Patriotic Committee shop day 16/10/42 £39 7s 6d, Greymouth Borough employees (part staff) 14s, sale comforts coupons per Mr T. Ryan 17s 6d, Cobden Patriotic Committee for prisoners of war 10s, Mrs McDonald, soldiers’ parcels ss. Mrs H. Harry £1; total £5Bl 3s lOd.

Between £35 and £4O was raised for the Patriotic Fund bv the Military Gymkhana held at Victoria Park on Saturday afternoon. The procession was headed by the bands, and included among others the various war service organisations, the Boy’s Brigade, Fire Brigade-, and pupils of the Marist and Convent Schools. A feature of the programme was the display by a special troop of thirty-six army motor-cyclists. This included stuntriding. and a race. Other items on the programme were a mine rescue station demonstration, drill display by the 17th Company and W.W.S.A., and rifle- grenade, mortar and bayonet drill displays. Children’s sports were held, and there were stalls and the usual competitions.