HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 7 June 1943, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent)

HOKITIKA. June 5. Dr. B. L. Wilson has returned from Christchurch. Rev. Marshall, Pastor of the Church of Christ, has received a call to another area, and will leave Hokitika in the near future. Mr. M. H. Houston returns on Monday from a visit to the East Coast. Mr. R. A. Harcourt is visiting Hokitika. With the Spring tides and heavy seas running along the Coast, the sea has made further inroads on the local beach. A stretch of protection work was washed out at the rear of Revell Street, and the old groins put in during 1914 were exposed. The beach had shown signs of building up again, but with the Spring tides the cut has commenced again last week.' Deep water is close inshore. On the south side of the river the sea has also made a cut, which has extended for many chains.

Mr. A. R. Elcock. the Mayor, presided at a meeting to raise subscriptions for the War Loan. Messrs JSaunders ■ (Greymouth) and J. A. Murdoch attended, following a similar meeting in Greymouth. Mr. Murdoch spoke of a -special conference held in Wellingto with the Minister of Finance and Governor of the Reserve Bank, stressing the importance of co-operation by all sections. It was the largest appeal on record for loans. It was resolved to give all support possible. The local Bank managers agreed to assist clients with information, and finance if required. Mr. G. Rich will be the manager of the Westland third grade team to l play Grevmouth third grades as a 'curtain raiser to the CanterburyWest Coast match at Greymouth on Monday. The Westland Licensing Commit- . tee at its annual meeting granted a transfer of an accommodation license from James Avery Dowell, Cashmere Bay Hotel, Te Kinga, to ! Cyril A. Coles. The following transfers were granted: Jean Scott-Foley, Kokatahi Hotel. Kokatahi, to Peter N. Smith; Drummond Anderson McMeekan, Tramway Hotel, Taramakau, to Harold O. Jef coate; Ivy Ethel Coffey, Railway Hotel, Greyrnputh, to John Slack; Leslie Victor Crothers, Terminus Hotel, Otira, to Verdun W. Holt; George Starkiss McGallan, Australasian Hotel, Greymouth, to Hugh Campbell William Morgan, A wine license was granted to ( Henry Kortegast, Hokitika. ( The following wholesale licenses were granted: Clive Lawrence Kettle. Greymouth; Annie Marie Jeffries, Hokitika; Griffen and Smith, Hokitika and Greymouth; Edward McDonnell, Greymouth; Westland Breweries Ltd., Greymouth.

Applications for renewal of licenses adjourned until the September meeting of the committee were. Robert W'lliam Parker, Clydesflale Hotel, Ross; Andrew Thomas Cumming, Commercial Hotel, Ross; Angus Roy Cunninghame, Empire Hotel, Ross; David R. Schroder, Globe Hotel, Dilmanstown. All other applications for renewals of nublicans’ licenses, accommodation licenses, and new Lceses, were granted.