LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 1 December 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

White’s are showing glamorous headlines in Hats.—Advt.

Though there was no bank holiday yesterday, St. Andrew’s Day, flags were flown on public buildings in Greymouth.

S.S. Kaimiro .arrived yesterday and sailed early this morning with coal for Wellington. S.S. Kartigi arrived early this morning to load for the North Island.

Of the 37 men drawn in the 21st ballot for general service who came before medical boards at Greymouth, 31 were grade 1, tw'o grade 2, and two grade 3. Two men had their grading deferred.

Austral New Zealand Mining Coy., reports from Cromwel] that for twenty-eight days ended (November 27, the dredge operated 503 hours, treated 283,000 cubic yards, and produced 448 ounces of refined bullion. —• Press Assn.

We have three only Satin Eiderdown Bedspreads, 6x5. Solde elsewhere at 5 guineas. Our price 90/each. Post. free. —H. Hamer, Kumara.—Advt.

National War Savings quotas were raised last week in 188 towns. All the principal centres were successful, and sixteen of the eighteen postal districts attained the full district quota.

According to a notice in the Gazette, Christmas and New Year holidays in the sawmilling industry throughout New Zealand will be limited this year from December 23 to January 4 inclusive.

Dredging returns in the past month included the following; Associated, 2060 z fr0m"93,290 3742 hours; Blackball Creek, 106 oz in 299 hours; Ngahere 1290 z from 218,524 yards in 483 hours; Slab Hut 1230zs from 37,000 yards for 247 hours. Moonlight washed up 18oz for 113 hours’ sluicing.

The friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. Nolan. of Hokitika and formerly of Wataroa, will regret to learn of the death of their infant son, which occurred yesterday at the Westland Hospital, from the effect of burns, which the child on Sunday sustained through falling into a fireplace.

See Geo. Muir (champion of the Forestry Union in England) versus the West Coast Champion of the Pine Cutters, at Nelson Creek on Saturday next. —Advt.

An outsize in lemons was found in one of two cases of lemons received recently' by the Red Cross Society in Invercargill from a North Island branch for distribution- among hospital patients. It measured more than six inches in length, had a circumference of Ift. 2in. and weighed turned the scale at l]b. 9oz. Representations regarding the erosion of the Poerua, or Little Wanganui River at Harihari, which has caused trouble for many years, are to be conveyed to the Minister of Works by the Minister of I'ransport (Pion. J. O’Brien). He has also promised to convey to tne Minister of Works representations regarding the provision of an access road at Red Jacks.

Attention West Coast Farmers: Now is the time to improve your stock.' Standing at Greymouth is the Arab bred Stallion, “Arabian Knight” by the imported Arab “Ingr.aan.” Fee £5/5/-. Consign mares to Greymouth. For further particulars write A. F. Cunningham, Box 199, Greymouth. —Advt.

The committee of the South BeachFaroa Ratepayers' Association is sponsoring a proposal to provide a children’s playground at South Beach. Watson’s Creek would be cleaned and blackberry and similar, growth replaced byj willow trees. It is understood that the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Hokitika (Mr. B. King) will give the proposal his fullest support if property holders are in agreement.

There was .a further decline in the New Zealand infantile mortality rate for 1942-43. The rate is now 28.71 per 1000 live births. During recent years, says the “Plunket News,” experience has gone to show- that given healthy stock, correct feeding and attention to other health details, New Zealand children were distinctly heavier than accepted averages represented on the chart which had been in use by the Plunket Society since its inception. A petition asking that part of the area of the Westland Electric Power District, in the neig.mourho.od of Kumara Junction, be included in the Grey) Electric Power District will be i investigated by a commission which will sit at Greymouth at 11 a.m. on December 10. The members of the commission are Messrs A. E. Davenport, Resident Electrical Engineer, Public Works Department, Greymouth, (chairman), W. G. Hadley, District Valuer, Christchurch, and J. W. Greenslade, commercial agent. Greymouth.

An American Laundry advertisement once read: ‘‘Don’t kill your 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.

An additional license foi’ 25 gallons of netrol is to be issued to all holders of taxi-cab licences for use between December 20 and January 7, according to information given bv the OH Fuel Controller’s Department. This is to assist in coping with additional demand on taxis that is always experienced at Christmas and New Yeor. Last year the issue was slightly less. Taxi-cabs used on the two-shift system received a similar 25 gallons, but single-shift cars received only 15 gallons. The period of consumption was then restricted to the days between December 24 and 31. Since the single-shift cars are in a considerable maloritv. this year’s concession will be much more valuable to the travelling public.—P.A.

Rump steak and oyster pudding is a speciality of the “Cheshire Cheese,” the famous old tavern in a lane just off Fleet Street. Once upon a time the ancient house was frequented by a host of celebrities including Dr Samuel Johnson, whose favourite seat is pointed out to this day. Upstairs is the quaint smoke-room, with its long table and- array of “churchwarden” clay pipes. Here the wits and men of letters were wont to congregate, and much tobacco was consumed, but whether its quality approached that of some of our modern tobaccos, notably "toasted,” is very much open to question. It has been truly said that when a smoker takes to “toasted” he has no time for any other tobacco. It is so fragrant and comforting. The six (and only genuine) toasted brands, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead). Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold and Pocket Edition have everything to I recommend them. Not only are thev ' of the first quality, but practically harmless owing to the elimination of nicot'no in them by toasting—the manufacturers’ own process.— Advt.