LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 3 December 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Grey branch of the Returned Services’ Association will conduct .a street appeal to-day and to-morrow morning.

S.S. Kartigi sailed yesterday afternoon with coal for the North Island. S.S. Foolta is expected to leave to-day with coal for Wellington and Miramar.

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

The Christchurch Manpower _ Appeal Committee will begin its sitting in Greymouth next week on Monday at 7 p.m. On Tuesday it will resume at 9 a.m., and is expected to sit all day. Most of the appeals are by young women who have been directed to work at the Mental or the Public Hospitals.

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.

Seven cases were considered by the Clerical Workers’ and Shop Assistants’ Advisory Committee which sat in Greymouth on Wednesday evening. In five cases a recommendation was made that the appeal be allowed., the committee making no recommendation in the remaining two cases. The employers of two young women directed by the Manpower Office to work as student nurses at the Grey River Hospital said that they did not intend to appeal for them. i

Nothing definite concerning the number of men it will be necessary to send to the South Island from those in the North Island who are being called up for harvesting work is yet known, either bv the Army or the National Service Department. It is certain that men will have to be sent. They will. not go to any definite areas, but to a pool, from which they will be called upon to do any harvesting work required. Estimates have been prepared by the Primary Production Councils, and their figures will he used as a basis for deciding on the number of men to be called uo.—P.A. No doubt about it, there’s something about White’s Fashions that is original and different; so smart, so new. Now is the time to lay-by for Xmas.—Advt.

The Greymouth Fire Brigade was called out at about 3.20 yesterday afternoon to an outbreak of fire in a storeroom on the second floor of the “Grey River Argus” building. The brigade was quickly on the scene and not very much damage was done either by fire or water. The cause of the fire is not known, but it apparently started in a stack of wrapped bundles of old copy paper, some of which was burnt. The wall was also charred and a small quantity of paper damaged. The brigade was able to localise the damage by a restricted use of water, therebv saving stocks of paper from the effects of dampness.

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 IS 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.

“It is hardly safe for a man to go on his own property at the weekends,” said the chairman of the Grey County Council (Cr W. Fisher) at yesterday’s meeting of the Council, in referring to the danger from deer shooters. Cr Fisher said that he knew of five cars on one property last weekend and four on another. In the Konara four beasts had been shot by deerstalkers in the last two months. Cr H. G. Carter said that because of the good price that was being obtained for skins people who were not used to deer shooting were poing out. Pie suggested that the Minister of Internal Affairs be approached and asked if it would be possible to have shooters licensed, so that only persons of the right mentality and experience would be allowed to go shooting. This suggestion was adopted.

The experienced married lady who, when asked to reveal the secret of how to manage a husband, tersely replied, “Feed the brute,” evidently believes that the way to a man’s heart is via his tummy.' But there’s “another way,” as the cookery books have it. What about smoking? Wives who hate and detest tobacco, and there are still some who won’t allow (heir husbands to smoke —at any rate in the house—make a great mistake. The wise wife knows full well what the weed can do, and how under its beneficent influence irritab'lity and temper generally, vanish. Therefore, ladies, “feed the brute’ ; if you like, but let him smoke when—and where —he will, and all will be well. Get him to smoke one or other of the famous toasted blends, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulld.o"), Cavendish. Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold and Pocket Edition. They have most delicious flavour and a beautiful aroma and are very pure because t.oast’ne eliminates the nicotine as nothine else does or can. These are the onlv toasted tobaccos manufactured. —Advt.