WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 25 February 1944, Page 6

WESTPORT NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent) High Tides, Port of Westport; a.m. p.m. Friday, 25, 11.11 11.40 Saturday, 26, 11.57 WESTPORT, Feb. 24. The Karepo arrived from Auckland yesterday and the Rata to-day from Tarakohe to load for Nelson. The Kaimai, from Wellington, and the Gabriella, from Gisborne, are expected to-morrow to load for Wellington. The Te Aroha leaves Wellington on Friday with general cargo for Westport and Little Wanganui. The Wingatui sailed for Wellington last night. Miss Joyce McKay, of the Post Office staff, has resumed duty after spending annual holidays in Christchurch. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Thompson were passengers from Wellington by yesterday’s aii- service. Mr. H. Hamilton left yesterday on return to Nelson. ■ Miss L. G. Small, Hon. Director of the Junior Red Cross in New Zealand, arrives in Westport on Friday. Mr. A. Nutter left by ’plane for Wellington yesterday. The Chairman ot the Buller District Patriotic Committee, Mr. J. M. Robertson, wishes to acknowledge the following donations for 1944 appeal: United Dairies £2 3s 4d; Rhythm Boys’ Dance Band, per Mr. J. Phibbs £2 10s; also 18s from Miss W. Shanks for soldiers’ overseas parcels. There was 600 tons of coal railed through the Buller Gorge yesterday from Greymouth for shipment at Westport. In the Westport Court, before Mr. G. G. Chisholm, S.M., Arthur Ernest Hart and Ronald Philip Intmann, railway cleaners, and Richard John Doncliff, formerly similarly employed, but n ow unemployed, pleaded guilty to the theft of milk, the property of United Dairies Ltd. Sergeant T. Matthews stated that a complaint had been received from the Railway Department that milk was disappearing from crates left at the station at five o’clock each morning for transit to country schools. On the morning of February 15, Hart had been seen bv constagles to ride on to the platform and place a bottle of milk in his pocket. He had admitted theft and subsequently the other accused had been interviewed. It was difficult to establish how much milk ( had been taken. Empty bottles had been thrown into the harbour or into the fireboxes of locomotives. Each was convicted and fined £5 with 14 days in which to pay. On the evidence of Constable Paul, Leslie Inward, George Coleman and John McKenna Cunard, were each convicted and fined £1 for having had beer near the Hector Hall, while a dance was in progress. John Tyler, John Pottinger and Mary Jones were charged and [ fined 10s each for having ridden cycles on the footpath. Westport Technical High School held their swimming sports at the Municipal Baths yestbrdav afternoon. The senior and junior girls’ championships were won by Margaret Mockett, the runner-up in both cases being M. Seaton. P. Keesing won the senior boys’ championship, with N. Keesing runner-up. Junior: N. Keesing, with R. Skilton runnerup. House points were as follows: — Grey 116. Marsden 73, Wilding 66, Seddon 33.

The Director of the Blind Institute at Auckland, Mr J. E. Broadfoot, accompanied by his son. arrived from Nelson on Tuesday. Mr. Broadfoot, who is a brother of Mr. W. J. Broadfoot, M.P. for Waitomo, is touring the South Island towns in the interests of blind people.