LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 3 April 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Cobden Hotel has been sold by Mrs I. O’Donnell to Mr .R J. Marshall of Christchurch. The sum of £34 was raised yesterday by the Patriotic Shop in Greymouth conducted by residents of the south end of the town. Don’t miss the dog show at Victoria Park to-day (Saturday).—Advt. In an attempt on the New Zealand junior girl’s. 50 yards freestyle swimming record, at Auckland, Miss Norma Bridson lowered the existing time of Miss M. Black of 29 3-5 secs., by one-fifth of a second. Obtain your Autumn Suit at White’s, the selection is big and varied. Call in at White’s Corner, Your Fashion Centre as early as possible. —Advt. An appeal is being made by the Mayor, Mr. F. A. Kitchingham, tor sellers of tickets for the raffle tor the Perotti section, in aid of Patriotic funds. It is hoped that volunteers, both men and women will offer their services. A party of twenty members of the U.S. Marine Corps will arrive in Greymouth by the' express to-day. The Mayor, Mr. F. A. Kitchingham, who will welcome the party on thenarrival, stated last evening that satisfactory, billeting arrangements have been made for the visitors,

The Maori Gold return |for the week ended yesterday -Is 38 ozs. 18 dwts., from 13,500 yards in 123 hours. Grey River return for the period ended March 31 was 3955 ozs. from 129,778 cubic yards of material, secured in 256 hours. Barrytown return for March was 347 ozs. in 501 hours, from 229,000 yards. Kanieri return was 456 ozs. in 479 hours from 164,000 yards. Arahura return was 1.243 ozs. in 569 hours, from 222,000 yards. Don’t forget to-night, Ikamatua Sports Ball. Guinea Monte Carlo, Guinea Lucky Spot. Williams’ Orchestra. —Advt. Two cases of infantile paralysis, both diagnosed as positive, were reported in the Grey district yesterday. One was a boy aged six, of Greymouth, and the other a woman, aged 30, of Ahaura. With a previous case, which was also diagnosed as positive, this makes three eases during the last eleven days. Yesterday’s cases, however, occurred in such widely separated areas that it is considered that there is no cause for alarm.

All proceeds from the sale of Art Union tickets for the Section this week will be devoted solely to Prisoners of War parcels. You are asked to buy an extra ticket this weekend. Sellers will be out as usual. Don’t wait to be asked.—Advt. The annual meeting of St. Paul’s Men’s Fellowship took place on Thursday evening, with a fair attendance. The vice-president (Mr W. A Judkins) presided. The following were elected to office: Patron, Mr R J. Williams (re-elected); President, Mr W. D. Panckhurst; Vice-Pre-sident, Mr Judkins (re-elected); Sec-retary-Treasurer Mr F. Lindbom (re-elected); Committee, Messrs S. H Sofield, F. Trainor, L. Shuker and J D Watson. A roster of duties for the care of the chijrch grounds was adopted and an offer by Mr Shuker to supply bulbs was accepted with thanks. Another Lucky Purchase: Men’s and O.S. Navy Sleeveless Bush Shirts, 7/6, 8/6, 9/6—with small sleeves—l/extra. Wonderful value. —H. Hamer, Kumara. —Advt. Mrs B. Moreland presided over a large attendance at the annual meeting of the Blaketown Women’s Institute held in the Blaketown Hall. The meeting commenced with the Institute Song. Mrs Mitchell .and Mrs Lyons were chosen as delegates for the half-yearly Federation meeting to be held on April 14. The annual report & balance sheet were read and adopted. The following, officers were elected: President, Mrs W. Mann; Secretary, Mrs D. T. Mildhell (re-elected); Treasurer, Mrs B. Moreland; Committee, President, Secretary, Treasurer and Mesdames Innes, Lyons, Graham, Hillman, Brown, West, Pike and Herring. A debate on Single Life v. Married Life was won by the latter on a show of hands being taken. A dainty afternoon tea was served by the hostesses, Mesdames Mann, West, R. Stewart, Banks, Anderson, Brown and Blacktopp.

I “Pardon me, Madam, have you the time ” Have you the time to do all you would like to do in civilian defence, Red Cross work and other war activities. Think what you could accomplish with one extra day each week by using our Laundry Service. Think of the freedom too, from that weekly drudgery of home laundering. You’ll save not only time but energy, and most important, your health. Hanging clothes in a cold, windy yard is risky at this time of the year. Your clothes will benefit too, we know exactly what temperature, what suds and what method to use for each type of fabric and colour. You’ll find your white things whiter, your coloured things brighter.— Westland Laundry Ltd., ’Phone 136. Depot: 27 Albert Street. —Advt.'

A humourous side of the blackout trial in Grey‘ ( mouth was provided by a fire brigade member vzho, having retired early, was awakened by the sound of the 1 fire-bell. iNot realising that it was the signal for the black-out he got out of bed, dressed hastily, and ran to the fire-station. Here he threw open the doors and waited for the other brigadesmen to arrive. It wias not till a' warden came along that he realised his mistake. Figures of number and value building permits issued in the larger centres during January suggest that civil bqjlding constructional activity is still severely restricted in order to utilise men and materials for war constructional activity, according to the Abstract of Statistics. The value of building permits issued in the largest centres in January amounted to only £141,008, which is the lowest value figure since June, 1942. Dwellings included in January numbered only 33, as compared with 70 in December, and 285 in January of last year.

;Greymouth’s National Savings quota has been reduced from £622 to £497 under the revised quota reducing the national objective from £5,000,000 to £4,000,000 yearly. £499 3s 4d was received in Greymouth uptil 'yesterday, and the flag was liown on the Post Office. Greymouth’s annual quota will be £25,844. The revised weekly and annual quotas for the Greymouth postal district are: Blackball, £52, £2704; Brunnerton, £5O, £2600; Hokitika, £l7O, £8840; Ikamatua, £l6, £832; Jackson’s Bay, £l2, £624; Kumara, £3l, £1612; Maana', £6 £312; Ngahere, £9, £468; Otira, £l4, £728; Reefton, £B3, £4316; Ross, £32, £1664; Runanga, £lOl, £5252; Stillwater, £9, £468; Waiuta, £35, £lB2O. The district quota is now £lll7 a week and £58,084 a year.

A service that is meeting a longfelt want i n northern military camps is that of the mobile library service, operating on a timetable. The mobile library van from headquarters will call once a week at each camp and will issue and collect books. The whole scheme is carried out strictly on military lines and the records will be efficient and comprehensive, similar’ to modern libraries. The scheme will be extended and ultimately a self-contained library and reading room will b e at each camp, where the men can not only borrow books but have the use of all current pictorials and magazines. At present headquarters in Whangarei has about 400 bpoks, chiefly fiction, which are not wholly up to date,