LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 2 February 1944, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

J^^" a e S X at S t o?e U ir at a Chisholm. S.M., a first offender tor drunkenness . was fined 10s, the amount of his bail.

Members of Uhe State 'Miners Union in the Runanga district have returned Mr. W. Connolly unopposed to the position of General Check-In-spector.

If is here! White’s Big Sale of Millinery. New stock selling at 57in the f off. Advt.

A total of 17,348 tons of railway onods Raffle passed eastward througn Tp O<ira Tunnel last week. In the corresponding weeks of 1943 and 1949 the totals were 17,008 tons and 15,053 tons respectively.

The s.s. Rata was last evening still nu-niting a favourable sea on the bar m sail with coal for Wellington. The Holmlea 'will leave Wellington on Monday with general cargo for Greymouth.

Grevmouth’s vital statistics for January, 1944, with those for the /me month last year in parenthesis, as follows: Births 24 (25) deaths 9 (9); marriage notices issue(j 5 (6); marriages by Registrar 1. (IL

About 600 books of the Digest and Penguin size are required for the quarterly gift parcels which are now being packed by the women’s branch of the Grevmouth Patriotic Committee. Knitters are also required for Air Force comforts for which wool is available at the patriotic depot.

Last week twelve cases of scarlet fever were notified in the Canterbury health district. Other notifications of infectious diseases were: — Tuberculosis 5, peuperal fever 1, erysipelas 1, and hydatids 1. From the West Coast one case of cerebrospinal meningitis was notified. Greymouth’s rainfall to the end of January totalled 5.92 inches, compared with 5.34 inches in January last year. Rain fell on 14 days, the heaviest fall being of 2.78 inches on January 7, compared with 17 days with the heaviest fall of 1.22 inches on the 18th. of January last year.

On Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Miners’ Hall, Blackball. —A real night of Gaiety. Grey Pipe Band present a Grand Ball and six supporting challenge chops. Waltzing competition & monster Monte Carlo. Valuable prizes. The Band will parade main streets in evening. Wonderful music. Delightful supner. It will be race day so spend the night at Blackball.—Advt.

Legislation has been prepared in New South Wales to ban horror lilms from Saturday afternoon matinees for children. It is proposed to classify films into four categories and it will be permissible to show at matinees only those films which are passed as suitable for children. Printed matter relating to films will be censored and objectionable features will be eliminated from advertising. A research bureau is to be established to record the effect of films on children.

A lady with a pram stood waiting for a tram at the corner of Manners and Cuba Streets. When it arrived she climbed aboard and the conductor jumped down to get the pram. However, when he looked up the tram was disappearing round the corner into Cuba Street. He was not missed until the tram stopped at the first stop some distance up Cuba Street, when passengers and shoppers were treated to the unusual spectacle of a conductor, moving rapidly—and pushing a pram—heading up the centre of the road.

Straight from its record-breaking season at the Opera House, Walter Greenwood’s Dramatic Sensation, “Love on The Dole,” Runanga, Tonight (Wednesday).—Advt.

Coming out of a suburban post office an Auckland undertaker saw his motor-car disappearing up the street. A few days later he was in charge of a funeral, and as the cortege passed through Mount Albert on the way to Waikiimete, he saw the car parked on the roadside. He stopped the funeral and, finding that there was no petrol in the car, he locked it and went on. On his return, be obtained petrol from the tank of the hearse and later drove the car home. The car is stated to have been parked on the roadside for about three days.

Ngahere Sports on Saturday will be the biggest meeting of the year so far, there being no fewer than 38 competitors in the main chopping event, 29 in the Second Class Chop, and 27 in the Upright Chop. Of the cycling races there are 15 in the two mile handicap, and 13 in the mile, while in the footraces there are 13 in the 100 yards, and a dozen each in the Sheffield and 220 yards. A 'bus leaves Greymouth at 11.45 a.m., returning after the Sports; while there is a Grand Ball in the evening.— Advt.

A novel “souvenir” in the form of .a small tortiseshell cat is a highlyprized pet at a New Zealand camp in a forward Pacific area. When the Japanese forces hastily evacuated an aerodrome in the face of the Allied advance they left behind them the smouldering ruins of fighter aircraft, numerous items of equipment and a little cat. Given the name “Villa,” she has quickly settled down in her new surroundings, but the New Zealanders swear that she understands “nekko” (Japanese for cat) and shows no response to any call < of “pussy.”

“It is remarkable how many of these young men are wonderful angels or mother’s darlings.” commented Mr J’ustice Blair in the Supreme Court in reference to young men for whom counsel made pleas for probation. His Honour suggested that counsel made a mistake in putting it on too thickly, in making the offenders appear too good. Such overstatements of fact were not much good when the Judge had before him the real facts: better service might be rendered to the offender by understatement rather than by overstatement Counsel took the hint and said ’.hat he had nothing further to add to what was before his Honour.

There was a fail' attendance at the January meeting of the Ngahere Women’s Institute held at the home of Mrs. Burr. Mesdames Nimmo and Todd, members of the Brunnerton Institute, demonstrated the making of crystalised flowers and sand posies. Winners of the monthly competition, vase of flowers, were: Mrs. Sheehan 1, Mrs. Burr 2, Mrs. McGuire h.c. At .the previous meeting at the home of Mrs. Ri. Donaldson, the motto was “Get wise when you make a mistake, for? the only crime in making a mis take is in making the same mistake twice.” Competition winners for knitted sieves for the Navy personnel were: Mrs. Sheehan 1, Mrs. Armstrong 2, and Mrs. J. Don ilclson, Jnr., h.c.

Greymouth to lose Post Office Clock! And this is not the only thing Greymouth is losing—yes, many women are losing the desire to do their own washing since they have become conversant with the advantages of sending their washing to the Westland Laundry Ltd. Try our No. 2 Thrifty Service —ISlbs flat work perfectly laundered for only 5/-. Here’s what you can include in ISlbs: 8 sheets, 9 pillowslips, 9 towels. 6 tea towels .and 3 tablecloths—3s articles, or the equivalent—this represents the average household’s fortnightly flat wash and works out at 2/6 a week. What value. Only the best laundry soap is used. All clothes are sterilised. We also specialise in washing and tinting curtains, blankets, eiderdowns, etc. ’Phone 136. Westland Laundry Ltd. Depot: 27 Albert Street.—Advt.

Preliminary returns indicate that a postal chocolate service introduced by the National Patriotic Fund Board recently will be equally as popular as a tobacco service that has now been operating for two years. Postal money order offices are receiving orders for chocolate, 21bs of which in four blocks mav be sent, to any member of the New Zealand forces overseas for 5s 6d, including packing and postage, responsibility for which is taken by the Board. Mr. G. H Hayden secretary of the National Patriotic’ Fund Board, at Wellington said vesterdav afternoon that success in the Board’s latest venture appeared assured. He had been advised tw nost office authorities that in the first five days after the inauguration of the scheme, approximately 500 orders had been placed in various money order offices throughout the country. No doubt, before very long these figures would be greatly multiplied.— Fress Assn.

Does smoking shorten life? To-bacco-haters say “yes.” But the deaths of centenarian smokers, so frequently chroniced in the papers, tell another story. So does the fact that many doctors are heavy smokers The harmfulness or otherwise of smoking depends entirely on the tobacco. Some brands are deadly if you smoke them regularly. Full of nicotine I Most imported tobaccos are like that. Our New Zealand brands, on the other hand, are almost free from nicotine You can smoke them all d.ay, and every day. with impunity. They are the product of the National Tobacco Company Ltd. (pioneers of the New Zealand tobacco industry), and are the only toasted tobaccos, which process • absorbs most of the nicotine, and thus nurilied sweeter, cooler, or more fragrant tobaccos money cannot buy. They never “bite” and burn to the last’ particle. There are various brands. Special favourites: Cut Plug No 10 (rich, dark and full-flavoured), Cavendish (sporting mixture), Navy Cut No 3 (a verv choice blend, medium):. Riverhead Gold (a mellowaromatic), Desert Gold and Pocket Edition. All toasted and, therefore, safe. —Advt.