LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 27 November 1942, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Work on the Greymouth Borough Council’s sewerage scheme is expected to be gone on with at an eariy date. The Armed Forces Appeal Board will hold a sitting at Wataroa on Thursday, December 10.

Five or six cases will be set down for hearing at the Greymouth Sitting of the Manpower Appeal Committee (Christchurch), on December 17.

Five provincial centres, Blenheim, Invercargill, New Plymouth Wanganui, and Westnort, were among tne 81 towns which attained their National Savings quota’s last week.

The National Service Department, embracing the District Manpower Division, will shift to its new premises at the corner of Mawhera Quay and Werita Street next neek. The Social Security Department will remain in its present offices. 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.

Coal for the East Coast has been coming from the Westport area in unusually heavy consignments this week. On two days it has. been necessary to run two trains to Inangahua, and the figures of 450 and 420 tons are about as heavy as any on record. Some of this coal will go as far south as Invercargill.

Railway revenue in the Canter-bury-West Coast district for the four weeks ended November 7 was £127,055 an increase of £15,640’ over the figures for the same period last year. The increase in the number of possengers carried was from 153,215 to 213,123 travelling on ordinary tickets, and from 10,963 to 12,970 travelling on season tickets. The quantity ot stock carried has also greatly increased.

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.

That the empty shot windows in Timaru be dressed by manufacturers and others for the holidays was a suggestion made by the Mayor of Timaru (Mr A. E. S. Hanan) in a letter to the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. “This would go a long way to give visitors a better impression of our town,” he added. This was no time for dressing un to receive visitors,” one member said. The letter was received. An objective of 350,000 acres of wheat has been set for New 1 Zealand in 1943-44, and 15,000 pamphlets have been issued as part of a campaign to secure it. Many farmers who do not normally grow wheat, will need to do so, as 60,000 acres more than was sown last year will be required. The Wheat and Flour Controller (Mr R. McPherson) stated this week that so far. contracts for nearly 42,000 acres had been received. This is regarded as satisfactory.

Sixteen local applications for permission to employ additional staff have been received by the Manpower Office in Greymouth. The applications affect twenty persons. Unconditional permission to employ has been granted in thirteen cases, five have been granted subject to review in January, and two have been refused. Most of the applications arise from the need for extra staff to cope vfith the Christmas shopping rush. Eight employers outside Greymoutn have also made application. 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.

Missing from his camp at Merrijigs, near Reefton, for some months past, what are believed to be the remains of an elderly prospector, Michael Sullivan, were on Tuesday found in the bush at Rainy Creek, 15 miles from Reefton bv a young man named Stanley Griggs. Sullivan, who was a single man, lived in a hut six or seven miles distant from the place where Griggs found' a skeleton in rugged bush country, while himself engaged with a companion in prospecting. A search for Sullivan, who is stated to have suffered from lapses of memory, was made unavailingly at the time of his disappearance.