LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 30 November 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The trawler Nile, which has been on the Greymouth Harbour Board’s slipway) for overhaul, was taken off yesterday morning.

Sittings of the Supreme Court at Greymouth next vear will be on Monday February 28, Monday, Julv 17. and Monday,' November 27. All sittings will begin at 10.30 a.m.

■ A total of 15,908 tons of goods traffic passed eastward through the Otira tunnel last week.* For the corresponding week last year and in 1941 the totals were 18,476 tons and 15,898 tons respectively. White’s are showing glamorous headlines in Hats. —Advt.

The s.s. Gabriella sailed yesterday with coal for Wellington. S.S. Holmlea, which arrived yesterday, sailed last evening with coal for Castlecliff S.S. Kaimiro is expected to-day to load coal and.will complete loading at Westport. Showers locally last evening were welcomed in several quarters. In the back country water scarcity has latterly been in evidence. The Grey River in the middle reaches was during the week-end down to an unusually low level.

For some time the Greymouth Harbour Board’s half-tide light has been kept alight with some difficulty as its foundation, a single pile, had rotted and was very unstable. Tins pile has now been replaced by a tripod which has been concreted into place, and the new light is now in operation. Men! Here’s a chance to save at least 3/- per garment. We are overstocked in fine all wool singlets and underpants. Natural colour. 12/6 per garment.—H. Hamer, Kumara. Post free.—Advt.

The Reefton-Greymouth goods train was delayed for about three hours on Saturday afternoon as a iesult of the derailment near Kamaka of a Q wagon loaded with coal. The Greymouth-Westport rail-car was held at Stillwater and the WestportGreymouth car at Ngahere, and the passengers were transferred between the two points by road service.

During the week-end the Greymouth Harbour Board’s dredge “Mawhera” and tup “Kumea” were frequented a good deal by fishermen and swimmers, and it was stated yesterdav that the mooring lines were interfered with and fish left lying on the decks. In future the Board proposes to prosecute without further notice persons trespassing on the vessels. 1 '■

To give the wooden stoppings put in on Friday at the Liverpool mind, t 0 seal off the fire an opportunity of settling down, no work will be done at the mine till to-morrow. This is the effect of a decision reached by the men at a meeting at the bathhouse yesterday morning. The management considered that the mine was safe yesterday, t

An American Laundry advertisement once read: “Don’t kill yo ur wife—let us do the dirty work .— And when it comes to dirty work, not the crossroads kind —leave it to the Westland Laundry. Our No. 2 Thrifty Service covering 18 lbs. flat work washed and ironed for only 5/-, our special blanket and down quilt service, our super service in laundering' and tinting curtains and drapings—these services keep the Greymouth women who wisely use them from that killing washday drudgery. We can do your washing as well as you can yourself—in fact better and cheaper—only the best soap is used, with Lux for blankets. ’Phone 136 now. Westland Laundry Ltd. Depot 27 Albert Street. —Advt.

The evidence of a witness in a Supreme Court case at Greymoutn yesterday, that he had never had anyone read hire-purchase - agreements—they were taken as read, was referred to later by Mr. Justice Northcroft in the course of his summing up. “I am surprised to sav the least of it,” His Honour said, “that any business house should obtain signatures to important documents of that sort and then come into Court and say that no one ever reads them.”

In a forward sector of the Pacific war front where New Zealanders are engaged, the “Grey River Argus" is welcomed by West Coasters in the ranks. “We are very grateful for the paper,"

writes one of them, lan Ferguson, “and among regular readers here are Frank Redder, G. Keys, and Beau McKenzie, all of Grey, not to mention various others. We wish the senders all the best, and they will be pleased to learn that the boys here are all well.”