LOCAL & GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 16 February 1945, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

All district coal mines worked yesterday. The rope-boys’ dispute at the Liverpool Mine will be dealt with by the Coal Council, who will visit the district next week.

Vandals have caused considerable damage to the windows at the Cobden school recently. Thirty panes of glass had been broken, and these were replaced on Monday. On Tuesday morning, however another 10 had been smashed. The committee decided at its meeting on Wednesday evening to place the matter in the hands of the police. , Ladies, get your share of the real Fashion Bargains at White’s Big Summer Sale. —Advt.

Last evening’s express from Christchurch carried 320 passengers, and arrived on time. Yesterday morning’s express to Christchurch had a complement of 150 passengers when it left Greymouth.

Over 50 picture programmes were presented for troops of the New Zealand Division in Italy, in a recent month, states a report received by the National Patriotic Fund Board from its Acting-Commissioner, Brigadier A. S. Falconer. They were attended by, some 37,000 men. Mobile cinema operations, however, had not been on a full scale, because 1 of active operations. Much work had been put into the field library service, and over 9000 books and 600 gramophone records were on loan to units.

Mass will be celebrated on next Sunday (First Sunday in Lent), February 18th., at Kokiri, 8 a.m. and at Te Kinga, 10.15 a.m.—Advt.

At the annual meeting of the Runanga State Miners’ Medical Society and Accident Relief Fund, officers were elected as follows: President, Mr J. F. Oakley (re-elected); Secretary, Mr J. Gillaly (re-elected); Committee, Messrs F. Richmond, Rutherford, R. Nelson, J. McPhee, B. Berns, J. Guy and T. Gray.

Good fields of good horses will provide a splendid meeting at Omoto tomorrow (Saturday);—Advt.

At the Addington sales on Wednesday beef prices showed a sharp decline. There was an entry of 558 head of fat cattle, the values being down from 15s to 20s a head. There were some large consignments of fat lambs from the West Coast, with a total entry of 3002, and the market was sound throughout, with little change being shown on recent prices. The West Coast lambs were well finished, and met with keen competition. Good sales included: W. A. Jamieson (Koiterangi) 70 from 31s 7d to 34s Id; E. Berry (Atarau) 63 from 31s 7d to 34s 4d; Captain Whitmore (Moana) 68 from 29s 7d to 32s Id; G. F. Drayton (Kopara) 156 from 28s lOd to 33s Id; J. Ryall (Barrytown) 75 from 28s lOd to 31s Id.

■ Two youths are required as appren-. tices to the boiler-making and electric welding trades by the Dispatch Foundry Co.—Advt.

At a meeting of th e Blaketown Home and School Association held on Tuesday evening, arrangements were made for the annual school picnic, to be held at Omato racecourse on Saturday March 3. The swimming baths are completed, and will be opened on Saturday February 24. On that afternoon, a talking film on swimming will be shown in the school room, and an invitation is extended to the public to attend. It was reported to the meeting that the school was now well equipped with sporting material.

The Omoto Racecourse •■.ill be at its best for the races to-morrow (Saturday), and with good fields and good horses a good meeting should result. —Advt.

Officers of the Grey Valley. Coal Miners’ Medical Fund have been elected as follows; President, Mr W. Purdy; Secretary, Mr W. GutberleT,; Treasurer, Mr W. Richards; Trustees, Messrs' M. Creagh, W. Coates and A. Robb; Auditor, Mr E. Souter; Committee, Messrs T. Morgan, J. Bums, A. Gutberlet, T. Kilkelly, E. Wick, A. Mclntosh, J'. Dickson, R. Butterfield, and M. McCloskey.

Racegoers should note that there will be two trains to Omoto Races to-morrow (Saturday), leaving Greymouth at 11.45 and 12.10.—Advt.

A meeting of the Jubilee Committee of.the St. Johns Presbyterian Church was held on Wednesday evening, when the programme for the 75th anniversary was arranged as follows: Saturday, March 10, 7.30 pm.: Dedication of new Communion table and chairs; 8.15 p.m., reception of visitors from other churches. Sunday, 11 a.m.: Communion service; 2.45 p.m., laying of foundation stone of Cobden Presbyterian Hall; evening service, Rev. H. R. Fell. Monday to Saturday will be devoted to veterans’ re-union, banquet, young people and church Dienic. As a number of Presbyterians from other towns are expected to visitGreymouth for the celebrations, _efforts are being made to secure offers of accommodation.

Always Onward. —A fitting motto for a progressive firm, and a progressive province- And the Westland Laundry with its latest machinery intends to see that as far as it' is concerned, Progress will be maintained. Our up-to-date washing and ironing machines will compare more than favourably with any of the large cities of New Zealand, and it’s a real fact that our modern method of washing causes far less wear and tear than the old method of running them on a scrub board. We offer a complete laundry service at a moderate cost.—Bagwash, Thrifty, Fully Finished. Give us a tripl order—not a few collars—but a good old home wash and you’ll be more than satisfied with results. The Westland Laundry Ltd. ’Phone 136. Depot. 27 Albert Street.—Advt.

Mr R. Senior landed a 25-ilb eel while fishing from, the Greymouth wharf during the week. This is the largest eel so far entered for the Grey District Acclimatisation Society,’s competition which closes at the end of next month, The competition for the largest trout also closes on March 31. Mr Fleming, with a 71b fish, is the only- entry to date.

The world’s annual consumption of cigarettes now runs into billions. Originally they were all hand-made, consequently comparatively expensive. Then some’ ingenious person invented a machine which turned out as many cigarettes in an hour as hand labour could produce in a week. Naturally, prices fell, and cigarette smoking fairly caught on. But the cigarette tobacco in use at that time was far from present-day standards, and you’d have searched in vain for brands of such; superlative quality as Riverhead Gold or Desert Gold—two of the finest cigarette tobaccos in the world; also tailormades. The three other toasted brands (chiefly favoured by pipe smokers), Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish and Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), are also unequalled for flavour and bouquet, and for their comparative freedom from nicotine—eliminated by toasting. All the brands are in universal use and are manufactured in prod gious quantities to meet the ever-growing demand A.T toasted, and no so'e throat, no cough! ,—574

The s.s. Holmlea arrived last night from Wanganui to load coal. The m.v. Storm is loading timber for Wellington. The m.v. Karu is loading timber for Wellington, and is expected to-morrow to load coal for the North Island.