WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 24 February 1944, Page 8

WESTPORT NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent) WESTPORT, Feb. 23. Thursday, Feb. 24, 10.26 10.54 Friday, Feb. 25, 11.11 11.40 The Wingatui is loading for Wellington and the Foolta for Napier. The Rata arrived from Tarakohe to-day to load for Nelson and the Karepo tofrom Auckland to load for Auckland. The Ka’imai and Gabriella are due .on Friday -and will load for Wellington. Rev. H. L. Wilkinson (Lincoln), formerly in charge of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, is visiting this district.

Mrs. K. F. Walker left yesterday for Christchurch.

Mr. T. Shaw left for Wellington yesterday! by plane. Miss L. O’Dea who has been visiting friends in Marlborough returned home yseterday. Mr. T. K. McGillivray, of the Royal New Zealand Navy is visiting Greymouth.

A railway! jigger driven bv J- F. McCloy and C. O’Leary, collided with a boulder .on the Buller Gorge line about 12 miles from Westport, yesterday morning. The jigger was derailed, both men receiving minor injuries. After X-ray examination at the Buller Hospital, they returned to their homes.

For the period ended February 19. National Savings investments in this district were: Westport £213 Is; Denniston £56 19s; Granity! £B4; Karamea £3.

1 The Town Clerk, Mr. P. Morgan, ; states that the amount .of current I year’s rates paid has reached £13,168, i which is 74.27 per cent of the total i rate struck as compared with 72.02 per cent at the same time last year. The resignations of Miss S. Comerford (assistant, Westport South), and Miss P. Garvey (Westport) were accepted at the meeting of the Nelson Education Board on Monday. The Chairman of the Sergeant’s Hill School Committee wrote urging the installation of a septic tank system and giving particulars of costs and what the committee was prepared to do. The secretary said the Department would not contribute towards septic tanks for one-teacher schools. The matter was referred to the Board’s Chairman to report to the next meeting and it was resolved that where septic tanks are authorised by the Department, school committees must contribute one-eighth of the cost. The secretary, reported he was unable to obtain a tender for the installation of a septic tank at Inangahua Junction School. The Tiromoana Committee requested that the school be re-opened. The Chairman reported interviewing the Department on the question, but the request could not be granted as only four children could attend and the Departmental minimum was five children for a school. Mrs. K. Webb wrote asking for the lease of the Punakaiki School ground.—Granted a year-to-year lease at £1 per pear. The Buller Basketball Association asked for the lease I of one and a-half acres of the Westport old school site. The Board agreed to the Association using the grounds at present, but the question of a lease was held over for a report. Only a year-to-ytear lease could be granted, it was stated. St. John’s Ambulance Division, Westport, asked for the use of a room in Westport old school. On the motion of Mr. J. H. Harkness it was decided to rent a room at a nominal rental immediately one became available. A subsidy was granted on the Waimangaroa School Committees’ contributions towards the cost of a learners’ swimming pool. The Murchison Committee was granted £2 and Westport North £7 5s towards special incidental expenses.