LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 27 March 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The sum of £4O was taken at the Patriotic Shop, conducted by the Makura Croquet Club yesterday. The Maori Gold return for the week ended March 26 is 35 ounces 11 dwts. for 125 hours’ work, and 14,000 yards of material treated. More exciting than ever are the Coats, Suits, Hats, etc., at White’s Corner, Your Fashion Centre. —Advt. The Rimu gold dredge return for the clean-up period from March 9 to March 23 was 181.80 ozs., from 75,441 yards of material treated in 245.1 hours. Classes in home nursing and first aid and for third-year hygeine students will commence in Greymouth soon under the auspices of the Red Cross Society. The present hygeine class for first and second year students is being well attended. Additional workmen are leaving for the Haast area within the next few days, where a stop-bank and rack works are to be constructed to protect the Haast Aerodrome from flooding by the Haast River. A temporary stop-bank has already been built. At a special meeting of the Greymouth Borough Council on Thursday, Clause 263 of the Consolidated By-laws, 1903, which provides for an annual charge for the removal of night-soil, was revoked. A rate to meet the expense involved is to be instituted. Men’3 Heavy Huka Plaiding Flannels, navy and chocolate, 12/6 each. Post free, as good as a “Swandri.” — H. Hamer, Kumara.—Advt. Mr Justice O’Regan will preside over a sitting of the Compensation Court at Greymouth commencing on Friday, April 16. The Court will sit again on Monday, April 18, and con--1 tinue after the Easter adjournment before going to Westport. More than half of the ten .defended cases will be heard at Greymouth. The annual cricket and tennis tournament between the pupils of Greymouth Technical High School and Christchurch West High School, which was to have taken place at Christchurch this week-end, has been cancelled because of the prevalence of infantile paralysis in Christchurch and the crowded term ac Christchurch West School.

Since the Wellington City Council invited people to call up the Engineer’s Department by telephone or to write reporting taps in ( need ot attention, free of charge, over 2500 applications have been made, and nearly 3000 taps have been put right. As a leaky tap will waste up to ten gallons df water a day, the saving has been well worth while, but the council is not willing to tackle all wash-basin taps, for there is a risk of the porcelain cracking, with trouble to follow. One man is kept steadily on the repaii' rounds, and applications are sorted into districts so that travelling time can be kept down.

Pilot, parachute jumpex- and Antarctic explorer, Mr Bernard W. Skinner, of Papanui, Christchurch, is the first American resident of Christchurch to be called up for service with the United States forces. He will probably serve with the Marine Corps. Mr Skinner was serving with the United States Army _ Air Force at Panama when he joined the second Byrd Antarctic expedition, coming to New Zealand nine years ago. He became one of -the leading tractor drivers of the expedition. and is mentioned in Byrd’s book, “Discovery.” With more than 250 parachute jumps to his credit, Mr Skinner broke the record for the delayed jump in the United States 12 years ago, diopping 8800 feet before pulling the rip cord.

The Marines are coming! Will your table linens do you credit? Every hostess knows there’s more to a “company dinner” than just food. How about your table linens? Are they a fitting background for your finest china and silver? To be confident of their perfection entrust them to our professional care for impeccable whiteness and smooth lustrous finish. Send us those gay coloured luncheon cloths,; we wiifi keep the colours sparkling and the paterns clear. And let us do the worrying about guests who overturn the gravy, so you can really enjoy your role of hostess.—Westland Laundry Ltd. ’Phone 136. Depot: 27 Albert Street. —Advt.

An. interesting visitor to Greymouth at present is Mrs. Christmas-Harvey organiser of the Animals’ Protection Unit of the< E.P.S. People who keep dogs and cats and who wish to learn how theix 1 animals may be kept in the best of ’health, and especially how they may be* cured of their ailments, should endeavour to hear Mrs. Christmas Harvey when she gives a lecture on Tuesdav evening next at the Town Hall, while she will be pleased to respond to enquirers who ring her at the Albion Hotel She is the only person in the Dominion authorised by the Government to give training under the Animals’ A.R.P. Mrs. Christ-mas-Harvey was herself trained m London bv the surgeons of the Blue Cross, and wherever in New Zealand she forms an Animals’ A.R.P. Unit, the V.A.D.’s go to her for training. Since Mrs. Christmas-Harvey, has given broadcasts (one of which will be given from 3ZR) school teachers have been holding “Animal Weeks” for children in various places.

The cases of 64 Scheme 13 men were considered by the. West Coast Scheme 13 Labour Utilisation Committee when it held its first meetino- on Thursday evening at Greymouth. Mr. T. P. O’Neil (Westland County Chairman) was elected chairman and. there were also present; Messrs A. J. Fairmaid (Grey Borough Engineer), J. Higgins (Grev County Engineer), W. Griffin (representing residents) and G. G. M. Mitchell (Manpower Officer). The number of men employed by each body concerned were as follows: Westland County 19, Grey County 16, Grey Borough 12, Runanga Borough 4 Brunner Borougji 5, Grey Hospital Board 2, Inangahua County 2. and Grey Trotting Club, Inangahua Hospital Board, Grey Jockey Club, and Reefton District High School one each. Recommendations regarding the work being carried out under Scheme 13 were made for submission to the Government, It was agreed that several men should bp considered eligible for light employment in war industries should they prove suitable after medical examination.