LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 23 June 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Associated Gold Dredges' returns for the week ended June 19 were 1981 ozs. from 64,000 yards in 341 dredging hours. At a special meeting of the Executive of the Westland Retail Shop Assistants’ Union, held last evening, it was decided to invest the sum of £l5O in the National War Savings Account.

White’s suggest that you see their leading fashions in Furs, Frocks, Coats, Twin Sets, Millinery, Yes, you can lay-by any time at White’s Corner, Your Fashion Centre—Advt. Before Mr. G. G Chisholm, Warden, in the Warden’s Court at Greymouth yesterday, the application of George Theodore Saunders for the surrender of a special river claim, No. 31/38, ol eight acres at Maori Gully Creek, was granted as from June 7.

The Armed Forces Appeal Board will sit at Greymouth to-day and on Friday;, at 10.30 a.m. On Tuesday next, June 29, it will sit at Hokitika, at 1.30 p.m., on Wednesday, June 30, at Reefton, at 10 a.m. and on Thursday, July 1, at Westport, at 9 a.m.

Yesterday was. the shortest day of the year, and last evening the sun, after' receding north for six months, started its return south. This year oui’ shortest dav coincided in date with the longest in Britain, though, because of the 12 hours’ lead in our clock time over Greenwich meantime, it does not always happen so. At ia Sitting of ,the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth yesterday, before Mr. G. G. Chisholm, S.M., judgment by default was given in the following civil cases: Kennedy Bros. v. J. W. Griffen, £l4 6s lid, costs £2 16s; Dunn’s Transport v. Alexander Wright, William Wright and Thomas Durkin, £5l 11s lid, costs £5 8s 6d.

No cases of notifiable diseases were reported on the West Coast in the week ended at noon on Monday. The following cases were reported in the Canterbury health district: Tuberculosis 4, cerebro-spinal meningitis 2, septic abortion 1, puerperal sepsis 1, erysipelas 1. There was one death from tuberculosis.

Representatives of branches of the Communist Party on the West Coast held a meeting on Sunday afternoon in Greymouth. Among the matters discussed was the General Elections. The vital importance of the Labour Government remaining in power was stressed by) various delegates and jt was decided that the Communist Party give every assistance to the Labour Party.

Greymouth’s rainfall for the first 21 days of this month, on five of which no rain fell, was 8.77 inches. In the corresponding period last year there were 12 rainless days, and the total rainfall was 1.19 inches. The year’s rainfall to date is now 49.92 inches compared with 49.06 to the same date last year. In the 24 hours up to 9 o’clock yesterday morning. 1.81 inches of rain fell, and there was a further fall of well over half an inch yesterday.

Weather Report: Further rain for the West Coast. This is not going to please mother, what with the children coming home with wet coats and shoes, every available place in the house is taken up trying to air off clothes. jNo wonder mother gets frantic with all this bother .and hot meals to get ready; it’s enough to upset anyone’s good nature. And then there’s that bugbear, wash-day, looming on the horizon. Well ’phone 136 and let us take some of the worry, after all mothers are the mainstay of the country.—.Westland Laundry Ltd., ’Phone 136. Depot: 27 Albert St. —Advt.

A good word for the weed! A famous London medical specialist (according to a recent cable) has just declared that tobacco is “a very useful sedative. It rests the brain and prevents the human machine from overworking.” The same eminent authority .approves of smoking for women. He says it is the best fashion introduced for them, “because it steadies the nerves.” Every smoker know's that. But much depends on the quality of the tobacco. Brands full of nicotine won’t “rest the nerves,” and may affect the heart. And unfortunately, most of the imported tobaccos contain an excess of nicotine, in which respect they differ essentially from the brands produced by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd. (the pioneers of the tobacco industry in New Zealand), which, being comparatively free from nicotine, may be smoked all day long and no harm done. These tobaccos owe their delightful fragrance and delicious aroma largely to the fact that they are toasted. No other tobaccos are. Ask for Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold (mild), Navy Cut or Pocket Edition, or Cut Plug No. 10 (full strength). —Advt.

Judgment on a claim brought by Thomas Budd, a miner, of Millerton, against the Westport Coal Company, Ltd., has been given in the Compensation Court by Mr. Justice O’Kegan. Plaintiff, who is now 49, was injured in an accident at the defendants’ Millerton mine on December 22, 1941, and his weekly earnings were high enough to entitle him to the maximum compensation during total disablement, but for about four months, when he resumed work in the mine, he earned a reduced wage. The ■ Compensation Court was asked to determine the amount which plaintiff was entitled to, receive in nnal settlement. In a written judgment, Mr. Justice O’Regan reviewed medical evidence concerning plaintiffs injuries, and that he had gathered the impression at the hearing of the case at Westport, tnat plaintiff “was unduly afraid of himself. His Honour said he considered plaintiff would be well paid if he were allowed 10 per cent, of full compensation for the remainder of 'the period of liability. In the circumstances the total period of liability was 313 weeks, of which 77 had expired. The plaintiff was therefore entitled to 236 weekly payments of 9s, commuted, making a lump sum of, £94 19s sd. Judgment would be entered accordingly. His Honour allowed £8 8s costs and £2 2s for one medical witness.