LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 26 January 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The house which was destroyed by fire at Omoto on Sunday night was insured for £4OO, and the contents for £250, in the North British Office. Pile driving for three of the six piers of the Big Wanganui River bridge has now been completed, and a start is being made with the erection of the trusses.

A fairly large consignment of Samoan bananas arrived at Greymouth at the week-end. It was the first shipment for nearly six weeks. The previous supply came from Raratonga.

Have you tried the new Tobacco — “Invincible”? Carefully blended to suit the palates of cigarettes and pipe smokers. It is a product i f New Zealand and is procurable from all Tobacconists and Stores. —Advt.

The Greymouth Patriotic Fund now stands at £1231 2s sd. Recent donations are: Part Borough staff 13s; Cobden Patriotic Committee, proceeds of dances £46 ss; part Borough staff 12s: Londoner No. 1 for British relief £3 15s; Londoner No. 2 for welfare fund £3 15s.

McMahon and Lee advise that the sale at Inangahua Junction yards will now take place on Thursday instead of Wednesday.—Advt.

In a match for the Reynold’s Badges nlayed at Runanga on Saturday between the Greymouth and Runanga Bowling'Clubs, Runanga (holders) won four of the seven games. Greymouth won the trophies on the aggregate, 164 points to 154. Mercer’s rink again won Greymouth r'nks championship, defeating Scott’s rink in the final.

Ladies’ soft Felt Slippers. Any size, any colour. Exceptional value, 5/6 per pair. Post free.—H. Hamer, Kumara. —Advt.

Last week’s figures for the east to west carriage of goods through the Otira tunnel, a total of 14,989 tons, was 484 tons less than for the corresponding period of 1942. In the same period of 1941 14,820 tons were carried.

Outsize Frocks designed to slender are showing in a big variety of styles and colouring at White’s Corner. Your Fashion Centre. —Advt.

Starting from the Wajototo, or northern end, work has been commenced on a road between the Waiototo and Arawata Rivers. The five and a-quarter miles of formation work is being done by the Public Works Department to enable Jackson Bay to be reached all the year round by road. The work will probably take more than six months to cornplete. A mechanical excavator and four lorries are at present on the job. Until recently, boxes of safety matches made in New Zealand have carried a full-length striker on each side, but now economies are t being effected. On some' boxes there are still two strikers, but their length has been reduced by half. For some time there has bee only on strip of glass-paper on each box of wax matches. Similarly, on the boxes of safety matches imported for the use of American servicemen there is one striker only.

A reason for the predominance of male voices in Ihe broadcasts of the 8.8. C. was mentioned recently by a 8.8. C. officer, Mr. N. C. Tritton, who is visting New Zealand. There were large and small communities, both within and without the British Commonwealth, he said, where there were strong obiections of custom or religion to women taking part in public life. One had only to think of certain Asian communities. News oi' commentaries riven in a fem ne voice would be objectionable to those communities, but a male voice was acceptable everywhere. New Year Resolutions: Study your health and happiness. This can be made easy by sending your laundry to a professional laundry. Try our thrifty service! You will be surprised at the value. 181 b. dry weight for 5/- all flat work returned ironed. We’mh 181 b. of clothes yourself and see the large quantity of linen it represents. A thrifty wash will do an average family two weeks which works' out at 2/6 per week. Why bother lighting the copper. Phone 136 and Westland Laundry will do the rest. —Advt.

Estates to the value of £677,883 were reported and accepted lor administration by the Public Trustee durino- the month of December, 1942. The total value of the estates and funds under administration oy the Public Trustee on M'arcn 31, 1942, was £64,685,685, and the new business for the nine months ended December 31, was £5,301,067. Grants of administration made by the Court in favour of the Public Trustee numbered 207 for the month. During the month 535 new will appointing the Public Trustee executor were prepared on behalf of testators lodged for safe custody, and 358 existing wills were revised to provide for changes desired by testators 'The total number of wills now held in the Public Trust Office on behalf of living persons is 119,906.

Mor e gifts, especially books, are required by the Greymouth Women’s Patriotic Committee for inclusion m overseas parcels. Four lots of parcels will be sent this year, as compared with three last year. Members of the committee were busy yesterday packing the first consignment. In all 93 cases, containing 510 parcels are being sent to Wellington for ’shipment. Each parcel contains a cake, a tin of meat, barley sugar, a tin of fruit, a tin of oysters, a tm of soup, a tin of cream, a handkerchief, chewing gum, and a book of the Digest type. A card with the name of the organisation and a fist, of names of prominent helpers in the district is contained in each parcel. The cases bear stenc Is, the work of two pupils of the Greymouth Technical High School, A'an Swift and Norman Payne.

How wide and important are the ramifications of New Zealand meat industry may be guaged from the Government statistician’s report that in 1941 more than 15,000,009 head of cattle passed through the various works .and the total value oi the products exceeded £27,000,000. Incidentally fully 25 per cent of the total production came from works in the Auckland Province. Typical oi the complex and intricate organisa/ tion is the- Westfield freezing works, where a staff of approximately 2000 workers will be engaged in handling dailv between 10,000 and 11,000 lambs in addition to numbers of pigs and .odd lots of cattle. The summer 'months are primarily the lamb-kill-ing season, which is followed in later periods by the handling of thousands of cows from culled dairy herds, fat pigs reared in the butter-making season, and later on large numbers of/ bobby calves.