LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 22 June 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A notice in the Gazette records the presentation of a petition tor inc winding up of the Tuapeka limes Company, of Lawrence, Otago. A total of 16,828 tons of freight was hauled through the Otira tunnel from the West Coast to Canterbury last week. The tally ior the corresponding Week of last year was 16,426 tons, while in 1941 the total was 14,961 tons

Mr Norman Stouppe, of Barry and Stouppe,' Opticians, is in Greymouth and may be consulted for sighttesting to-morrow (Wednesday), C/o. Mr D. Mcßrearty.—Advt.

The National Patriotic Fund Board receipts for the eight months ending May 31 last totalled £755,289, including the following:— General £395,991 15s sd; Sick and Wounded, £93,596 16s 7d; Prisoner’s of War, £265,790 15s 10d. In addition there were cash balances of £92,893, and matured investments of £25,000; making a total of £873,183. Payments during the period totalled £816,054, including £193,668 on account of war prisoners, £53,548 for sick and wounded soldiers.

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The Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society at its annual meeting very nearly adopted the unusual course of electing an anonymous person as a life member. The president, Mr, H. Manderio, announced that a man, who desired to remain anonymous in the meantime, had made an endowment gift of £lOOO to the society, and he suggested that the meeting should elect him a life member.. It was pointed out by a member present that the society could hardly elect, a person without knowing his name, so the president agreed to reveal his identity to the meeting only. The donor was then’’elected a life member amid applause.

‘‘That is pretty steep, isn’t it?” commented the chairman, Mr. K. G. Archer, at a sitting of the Industial Manpower Committee, in Christchurch, when a 16-year-old employee 'Of the Post and Telegraph Department appealed against the manpower officer’s refusal to allow him to terminate his employment. The appellant explained that before he reached the age of 16. he had been paid £2 5s a week; since then, because of taxation, his wage had been reduced to £2 0s lOd weekly. “Mother gets the £2,” said appellant, "and I get the 10d.” “You should ask your mother for a discount,” said Mr. Archer.

It is understood that the last remaining twelve members of the staff of the Superior Oil Company which has been engaged in prospecting for oil on the West Coast, will leave this morning en route for their homes. They have been here just over a year now, and on their arrival last June numbered about forty-live. One evening last week the management of Revington’s Hotel tendered them a farewell dinner, prepared and served in American style. During their stay the Americans have shown themselves generous and liberal in character, and adding to the town a certain cosmopolitan flavour, have helped to widen the horizons of the many with whom they have made friendships.

Enrolments in Greymouth for the E.p.s. under the compulsory registration regulations have been very poor, only five enrolments having come to hand. 4 It should be noted that under the National Service Emergency Regulations, 1941, a penalty of not more than 3 months imprisonment or a fine of £5O and a further fine of £5! for each day the offence continues, is stipulated for failure to enrol in the Emergency Reserve. -The Controller of the Greymouth E.P.S. (Mr. F. A. Kitchingham) has received advice from the District Controller that men on leave without pav must enrol for the Borne Guard and E.P.S. In "eneral, the Home Guard has first choice but if the reservist is not a member of the Home Guard, he must enrol in the E.P.S..

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