LOCAL & GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 24 November 1944, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

[meeting was held in the Council hbers on Wednesday to finalise Agements , for the forthcoming i Appeal, which will be held on ■y, December 1. men from all over the province father at Hokitika to-day and l°row for the West Coast F'ire fTs’ conference and demonstra--11 °Vhe following. Brigades are to Granity, Westport, Reefton, p munanga, Cobden, Greymouth, Hok\ ilway ’ , K umara > Ross, and *^ s ‘ result of . a power failure an O p OSS i U m contacting the “ rey }er Board’s line between Dunotand Rewanui, yesterday mol [ n l’,he Strongman and Liverpool Amines and a number of co°Peratsiines were idle yesterday. . ® and broken in res t O red during the day. Only wee p s to Christmas. Lay-by .\yii £ h coat, Suit, Frock, f T u V-_? r A'or your Christmas Time Holidaysk ite>s Corner, Westland s Fashion House. —Advt. for the year of the Grey ( j th p an .p ac ific Society was held ’ er day afternoon, Miss Julius pres, over an a ttendan’ce of 58 memV and fr j en ds. Mrs E. F. Evans gl a resU me of the Dominion Con Ice of t . he National Council of which she attended in DunediM rs Daniels’ and Miss Quinn each & vocal item, a . n d play resu was conducted by the Re . a< AAssociation of Greymouth, het'-ded* Mj ss Bush. Afternoon tea coi ded Rie meeting. T1 l 0U ? 1 }o?^ c V, with an investment of £B4 lls\ W as the only town to exceed its the ten West Coast offices weu e dited with National Savings* 4 esses ] as t week, oy use of previoiLrpiuses. investment. with cash e ncies indicated in parenthesis, u as follows Hokitika £l6B 12s x 8s); Ro ss £27 10s (£4 10s); Kuril rig @s Id (£6 ton I£fiO: 1 £fiO : CfTD-’ W' (£7 17Sl) ReeP ton, £6O (£23); Wt a £7 ig s (£27 2s); Runanga £(i 6s ( £ 36 4s); Brunnerton, £3 14ii (£4R q.-, rjiGreymouth, £391 8s X 2s).' ’ A young woman L charged in the Magistrate’s Coui t Greymouth yesterday, before Mi j. Fogarty and Mr N. V. Lovell, Vp with the theft, at Greymouth, oir O vember 22, of £3, the property of l , a. Lawson/ Defendant, who pleadta U ilty and elected to be dealt wr^ U mmarily„ was convicted and orcfid to come up for sentence whenU]] e d upon within six . months. AnVder was made for restitution ofp e money stolen. I Railwaymen: We are bin able to supply LI a myo, the genii article length 42in to 52in. Doik breast, long sleeves and belt. Priug p os t free from H. Hamer. —Kun a> ' The motto at the monthl'meeting of the Brunner Women’s \stitute. presided over by Mrs GutbeV was: “It is more blessed to givek’an to receive.” A Christmas partAqn p e held in Brunner in the next-of-kin of thoj’e who ha boys serving overseas. Competitii winners were: Vase of flowers, MA Gutberlet and Mrs Rogers, equal, ’ones Mrs Rogers. The wandering Wee 1 ’ was also won by Mrs Rogers. tbpgr was served. 1 On Saturday evening the resints’ of Ruatapu and the surroundingqstricts will have the opportunil of hearing an informative lecturfon care of the health and preventio.of disease. The lecturer, Elizabeth ii. grove, of the Cosmic Ray Instiu'e has chosen-as her subject for the\> casion, “Natural Healing Versus S'gery”, and she undertakes to deml. strate how the present orthod; methods, instead of preventing i health which should be the vital ai of medicine, are leading instead 1 the hospital accommodation beip overtaxed in the Dominion, with coil sequent extra expense. The lecturer who has had many years of expert ence in treating the sick along na tural lines, and comes with a wealth of knowledge, insists that good health’ is true wealth, and that the prosperity of the nation can only( increase to the extent that the health of the people permits.

Mr. E. Cholerton, Proprietor of “Procter’s” Opticians, Christchurch, may be consulted on all defects of eyesight at the Grey Motor Buildings to-day (Friday) and to-morrow IBaiurci-.y).. ' •App.OintrnenLt can be made bv ringing Miss Pfeifer, 'Phone No. 475.—Advt.

When he was involved in an accident at Boote and Party’s co-operative mine, yesterday morning, a miner, John Doyle, married, of Runanga, received a fracture of the i-ight leg. He was admitted to the Grey River Hospital, and his condition last evening wa? reported to be satisfactory. Though there is yet a week before the season closes, whitebait fishermen have not been prominent on the banks of the Grey River during the pa?t week or more, and it is apparent that supplies of fresh bait will be at g premium, authough good catches, destined for canning, are yet being made in South Westland. Early in this week there was an unexpected run in the Grey River and thd few optimistic fishermen operating -secured catches, exceeding a kerosene tin, which met a ready sale at 2s a pint. A remarkable feature was th e excellent quality of the bait, which were particularly small, while the shoals were free from blackbait and similar fish.

Don’t gamble 1 No don’t gamble with your health this summer, send all your washing to the Westland Laundry, you’ll definitely be on a win, financially, too, when you discover just how reasonable our laundry charges are. '. Take the No. 2 Thrifty Service, for example—lSlbs. fiat work such as towels, tablecloths, sheqts, pillowslips, etc., perfectly laundered for only 5/-. This represents ( the average household’s fortnightly wash, and works out at 2/6 a week. It will pay you to give this service a trial. ’Phone 136. Depot: 27 Albert Street. —Advt.

Three vessels which arrived in the roadstead yesterday morning have been unable to enter the uort as a result of heavy seas-on the bar, and a four-knot run in the river. Another vessel, m.v. Karu, to load timber for Wellington was due to arrive this morning. The s.s. P001t.3, s.s. Rata and s.s. Kakapo, which are to take coal cargoes, are the ships in the roadstead." The s.s. Pakura is due to-night’ to load coal for Miramar. The s.s. Holmlea, due to have loaded coal for New Plymouth, has now been diverted to Tarakohe to load cement for Wellington.

The Gillespie’s Beach return is 28 ounces 15 dwts. from 13,000 yards of material secured in 108 hours’ dredging.

Four carriages will be attached to the goods train leaving for Christchurch this evening to cope with the expected exodus of local racing fans on the occasion of the New Zealana -.Galloping Cup’ at Riccarton to-mor-row. The rail-car has a standing list of over a’ hundred, but, it is undertood, the Railway Department will lot extend priority on the good? tram \> those unsuccessful in obtaining iansportation by rail-car, as a confluence of an incident on a similar opasion some weeks ago, when the ral-car left with room for two passengers, after there had been a standini list of 160. Yesterday’s express wa a 1 capacity train of ten cars and twlvans, and carried 218 passengers froh Greymouth. ole of the coldest days for some timd was experienced at Greymouth yesterday, the temperature being 47 degrees at 9 a.m. The wind, which had changed during the night from southwesterly to easterly, changed again to south-west during the. day, and ncreased in intensity, making condifons most unpleasant. Rain fell iltermittently, and, as a’ consequencl. the Greymouth Amateur Athlellc Club for the fourth successive occasion had to postpone its meeting.

An application for a position with an Auckland motor firm soon satisfied the 1 boss that he knew his job. “You’ll do. I think.” said the boss, “but there’s just one other- qualification vou (must have if vou come to us: do you smoke?” The applicant hesitated. He thought the boss might be trying to trap him. “Y-yes,” he said at last, .and hoped he hadn’t put h ! s foot into it. “Good!” said the boss heartily, "you’re engaged! All out : salesmen have to smoke; smokers get on better with customers. Many a-deal is made over a smoke.. What tobacco d’you use?” “I’ve been smoking toasted Cavendish for .about ten years.” said the new salesman, “because I can’t get anvthing I like better.” “There’s nothing, better than toasted,” < replied the the boss. “I smoke Cut Plug No. 10 myself. My doctor recommended it to me. He never smokes anything else.” And that’s how it goes! One smoker tells another, and so the fame of Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish. Naw Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold and Pocket Edition is always, spread’ng-'.!—Advt.