LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 12 September 1944, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The gate takings at the BullerWest Coast Seddori Shield Rugby football match at Westport, on Saturday, amounted to £157.

Select a .blouse to go with that Suit. We’ve lots of lovely styles in cream, beige and white, with short sleeves.—White’s Corner, Your Fashion Centre.—Advt.

The excellent sum of £l6O was raised by the Marist and Convent Schools at the end of last week, by a shop conducted in the Greymouth Town Hall. This amount is to be donated to the. patriotic fund.

Railway traffic on the WestportGreymouth line, yesterday, was extremely heavy, probably by an exodus of visitors for *the Seddon Shield game. The morning rail-car was full, and in the afternoon, a doubleunit car had to be utilised to cope with th e demand for accommodation. As a consequence the rail-car arrived at Greymouth at 7.10 p.m. forty minutes late.

With rain still falling in numerous showers last evening, the week-end rainfall at Greymouth; was one of the heaviest experienced for some inches being recorded in 4J 10U d’ en(^e “ 9 a-m, yesterday. The Grey, River remains, at a high ievei, w_th an eight knot fresh running. Shipping remains tied up in port, and no work was carried .out on the wharf owing to the rain.

A local Bill giving the preymouth Harbour Board authority to harrow £lOO,OOO for urgent harbour wo?k? will be introduced at. an earIv period of the present session ot Parliament. This was -.announced yesterday. by .Hon. J. O’Brien Munster of Marine, who stated that the loan would enable an early start to be made with the extension ot the breakwaters, which ihas the approval of engineers.

The slip at Rocky Creek, though still blocking the road, was cleared from the Greymouth-Otira railway] line at about 2.15 p.m., yesterday and normal services have been resumed. While the line wb£ blocked the ra'ilcr.r ran as far as the slip, where passengers and mail were transferred to another car, but other services were cancelled. The slip on the highway is expected to be re-moved-by noon, to-day, the prevalence of water preventing speedy execution of the work. The slip in the Buller Gorge, which interfered with road and rail traffic, was cleared yesterday.

Last month, according to the Government meteorologist, 1 conspicuous excess in rainfall occurred in Nelson and Marlborough, bettveen Tauranga and Napier and locally near Wellington City and Balclutha. There was some minor flooding near Napier .on the 20th. The drier areas included Patea, Wanganui, Timaru, pamaru and the province of Westland. While in Westland and to the east of the North Island ranges sunshine was above normal, totals were deficient elsewhere. At Wanganui and Wellington the values were more than one hour per daytoelow normal. Gisb.oine had the highest total of 204 hours.

There were no shipping movements at Greymouth yesterday because of a heavy sea on the bar and a continued run in the river, and the loading of vessels already in port was also delayed by the fresh even after the weather had cleared somewhat. The s.s. Kaimiro, to load coal for Wellington, which arrived in the roodstead during Sunaay night and the ss. Titoki, to load coal ton New Plymouth, which arrived in the roadstead yesterday* morning, were still waiting there last night. .The m.v. Karu, with timber for Wellington, is still barbound. The s.s. Kiwitea is loading coal for the North Island ana the s.s. Poolta is loading coal for Wellington. The s.s. Pakura is io load coal for Miramar. The s.s. Rata is expected on Thursday evening to load coal for Castlecliff.

Washed shirt in four gallons of petrol! According to a Sydney news report, Australian prisoners of war working on Nazi petrol dumps in Tripoli used four gallons of petrol to wash a shirt. There was little water for drinking and none for washing, so the Aussies decided to use as much petrol as possible for washing—4 gals, for a shirt, six for a pair of shorts and up to ten for else. However, there’s no scarcity of water at the Westland Laundry, in fact, they put all clothes through seven different waters. This ensures thorough, hygenic cleansing, and that snowy whiteness which is the delight of all housewives. Only the finest laundry soap is usfed, with Lux chips for blankets woollens. The Westland Laundry offer you three special services—Bagwash, Thrifty and Fully finished, and also make a specialty of laundering Blankets, Rugs, Curtains, etc. You’ll be agreeably surprised at the reasonable cost. ’Phone 136. Depot: 27 Albert Street.—Advt.

At the suggestion of the British Vice Consul and through the courtesy of the Prime Minister’s Department, Mr. P. J. recently visited the Leper Stations! in New Caledonia. While there he had conferences on leper work with tne French doctors and was entertained by the French Governor. At the Ducos Station he“ met and conversed with two nursing sisters who had contracted the disease, one of the latter having been decorated by tne French Government. Among tne patients he saw two married couples, quite a number of children, and about 60 Europeans. The British Consul recently distributed gifts from New Zealand to these outcasts and it was a red-letter day for all the sufferers. The European French population m New Caledonia were very deeply impressed with New Zealand’s kindness. Mr. Twomey then made a long journey into the interior of the island to see a bush leper station. To get there it was necessary at one point to cross the swollen creeks on horse back. Such a high opinion do these people entertain of New Zealand that the profuse words of praise bestowed on his country was at times rather embarrassing to a visitor from this Dominion. -