WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 15 December 1943, Page 6

WESTPORT NOTES

[Our Own Correspondent]., High Tides, Port of Westport: a.m. p.ffi. Wednesday, Dec. 15, 00.10 . 00.28 WESTPORT. Dec. 14. The Kaimiro- is to sail to-night for Auckland. To-morrow the Totara is due from Wellington to load for Tokomaru Bay; and the Kiwitea from •. Greymouth completes loading for Auckland. The Tekapo from Wellington on Thursday, will load for .Wellington. Mrs. M, Watson left by yesterday’s ’plane for Wellington. • Mr. Russell Lynch, Western Electric Engineer, is at present in Westport making arrangements for the - installation of Western Electric talkie equipment in the St. James Thea- ' tre.

Mr. Dave McGill, representing Cad=> bury, Fry and Hudson, is making his customary business visit to the district.

Driver Colin Hands, back from the Pacific Islands, returned to Westport last evening. A training centre in carpentry is being started in Westport by the Government. There will be fifteen trainees to start with, eleven being returned servicemen and four ex-home-ser-vicemen.

Mr. J. Fletcher, who has been visit; ing Westport as the guest of Mr. ana Mrs. A. Fletcher, Peel Street, returned to Nelson to-day. Mr. J. Warren, late of Denniston, and now.in the employ of N.Z. Railways, Wellington, is visiting his sister, Mrs. G. Organ, Queen Street. Mr. Gilligan, representing Ballantyne and Coy., Christchurch, is on a business visit to Westport.

Mr. J. T. Gilbert, who has been visiting friends in this district left last week on return to the North Island

The Chairman of the Buller District Patriotic Committee, 'Mr. J. M. Robertson, acknowledges the sum of £l2 from Sergeant’s Hill Patriotic Committee, per M. Lowe, for 1943 appeal. National Savings investments in the Westport district for the week ended December 11, 1943, were as follows: Westport £310; Denniston £3l; Granity and Millerton £99 2s; Karamea £3 10s; Total £443 12s. At the sitting of the Manpower Appeal Committee held last evening, Theatre Enterprises Ltd. appealed against the direction. of Ula Maude Hgnshaw to employment In a tobacco factory at Petone. His firm conducted the St. James and Victoria Theatres and the Theatre Royal, stated the manager, Mr. T. Broker. Miss Henshaw worked between the first twoi theatres. She worked 32 hours a week, about 15 hours in clerical work and 17 in ticket selling. Ot the 11 girls he employed, this was the only girl he had in whole-time work. It might be possible t 0 replace Miss Henshaw, but there was the risk that any other girl he employed would be directed elsewhere by the manpower authorities. Further, it was hard to secure a girl who would work at night. District Manpower Officer, Mr. Bryce, told the committee the position Miss Henshaw was intended for would bring her more pay than she was earning now. He could secure a ticket-seller for the theatres, but it would be more difficult to secure a clerk. The appeal was dismissed, the direction to take effect from January 10, 1944. In a case in which Raymond Harold Chandler appealed against refusal of permission to terminate his employment with Nelson Creek Sawmill Ltd., Rahui, there was no appearance of the appellant, though Mr. H. Lovell appeared for the Sawmilling Company tq oppose the appeal, and it was dismissed for lack of prosecution. Late yesterday afternoon, fire broke out in the gorse on a section at the bottom of Romilly Street. No damage was done as residents of the locality brought the fire under control as soon as it was discovered ana by the time the brigade arrived it was almost out. On the Westport bowling green, over the week-end, the following competition matches were played:— Morley Pairs: McHerron and W. Brown (s.) beat Stowell and R. Wilson (s.) Later, McHerron and Brown beat Jones and Farr (s.) Championship Singles: Jones beat Marshall; C. Douthett beat Kelly; McDougall beat Dunlop; Francis beat Struthers; lox beat Mullins; Petherbridge beat Fox; R. Wilson won from Sissons; Falconer beat W. Brown and Powell won from Greener; Luff beat Metson. Intermediate Singles: Morel beat Caldwell; F. Kelly beat J. M. Robertson; and Shaw beat Broker. Blackwood Cup Sissons beat Farr; Mitchell won from Green; Struthers beat Smith; Levy beat Burt and Roselli beat Sara. ■ The schools in Westport break up to-morrow for the Christmas vacation.