WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 3 July 1944, Page 6

WESTPORT NOTES

I Our Own Correspondent.! WESTPORT, July 1The Titoki arrived last evening from Picton, loaded coal and sailed this morning for Nelson. The Totara, ready to sail for Tokomarui Bay\ was detained to-day owing to heavy seas •on the bar. The Holmlea is due on Monday from Picton. The Denniston mine wa's idle on last back Saturday owing to there being no shipping and the binns being full. Miss C. Clark, Denniston, js an inmate of the Buller District Hospital, where she has undergone an operation. Miss Glenyss Fountaine, Eltham, is visiting relatives in Westport, and is 'the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. Walker. Dougla's Weaver was the winner of wthe principal prize of £lO for the ■Westport district National Savings Second prize of £5 was Mrs. C. Peterson and sjx conprizes of £1 each were awarnWood, W. R. Woodcock, Miss Pagent, Wiland Miss C. Moreland. meeting of the woof the N.Z. Labour was w’ell attendStephen presided. A , from Mrs. Donnason, MMaMtor to the district and a a i so received from her. i <J‘.- ; '>?, ; '?:'*' is to be forMBHBHMMrs Donnason from the |i|«asg||HFrs. Campbell was thanked for soldiers' parcels. reported that the card parties, proch are given towards solwere not. being as well < ' 'Mis expected. Seven parforwarded monthly, hbweverMhe secretary stated. One new meiTier, Mrs. De Fricz was proposed and accepted. Mrs. McKinlay who has been suffering from ill health and is. now recovering, was welcomed back and best wishes for her continued improvement in health were extended. During the month of June, 1944, vital statistics w : th the corresponding nrnufh 1943 ; n parenthesis were: Nine births (10); eight deaths tf8); no marriages (4). I For .Tune. 1944, the va’ n fall recordid at Westport on 23 days totalled 8.37 inches. For the same month in 5.943, 10.69 inches for 23 days was recorded. Customs returns for Westnort with Ifist June’s figures in parentheses are as follows:—Customs £614 16s 6d (£194 16s 8d); beer. £631 9s 9d (£566 9s 4d); sales tax, £5Ol 14s 4d (£506 18s 7d); war. expenses account, £2,099 16s 8d (£1,475 Is lOd). 1A meeting of the Miners’ Union was held at Denniston, on Wednesday. Mr W. Meek nresid’ng over a attendance. After the usual business had been disposed of, the members were addressed bv the Hon. A. McLagan. Minister of Manpower, who is also National Secretary of the Miners’ organisation. Other national rvffffmlc to AfVlre,?” rvinn v’crH Messrs J. Devlin. National President and T. Prendeville, a member of the Coal Council., Mr. McLagan was first of J ail, congratulated on his appointment to the important position as a Minister of the Crown. The sneakers thereafter gave a thorough report on the. recent wages conference recently held in Wellington. He also urged the miners to continue with their splendid war effort until final victory was ours. The need for every ounce ofpeoal at the present time is great, he- stressed. and he felt sure the Government would do all in its power to make the lot of the workers more pheasant. His remarks were endorsed ktz the nresident, Mr. J. Devlin. Mr, Tony Prendeville gave a report of his recent visit to Australia; He first of all expressed thanks at being the chosen delegate to visit Australia and bring a reoort .of working conditions of -the miners there. He was emphatically of the opinion that New Zealand miners were more advanced in -fh e matter of conditions than the Australians. He auoted matters to prove his opinions. The reoort proved highly interesting. The three officials were accorded a heartv vote ofJthanks on the call of the chairman, after which Mr. Prendeville called for a’Jvote of thanks tn the chairman. These were carried by acclamation, afifi' the meeting then concluded. This union has again nominated the Hon. A. McLagan as national secret-ary,-and Mr- J. Devlin as national president.