WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 2 April 1945, Page 8

WESTPORT NOTES

[Our Own Correspondent] WESTPORT, March 31 The Poolta sailed for Napier on Thursday night. The Te Aroha sailed for Little Wanganui yesterday morning. The Wingatui is loading for Wellington and the Karepo for Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. G. Cole, and Mr. L. Cole, of Nelson, are visiting Westport. Mr. and Mrs. J. Work, Christchurch, are spending the Easter vacation with Mr. and Mrs. H. Palmer, Orowaiti. Mr. E. T. Broker, manager at Westport for Fuller’s Theatres Ltd., has been transferred to Ashburton and with Mrs. Broker will leave for Ashburton during the next two weeks. Mr. Broker will be succeeded at Westport by Mr. Pender, of Napier. Mr. W. A. Craddock left for Wellington on Friday. Mr. R. S. Rowe left for Wellington on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Southerland arrived from Wellington on Friday. Mr. M. McCormack of the Railway workshop’s staff ,after 38 years’ service has retired on superannuation and was the guest of fellow workers at a function on Thursday and presented with a gift on their behalf by the workshop’s foreman, Mr. E. Hanrahan, to commemorate the occasion. A derailment of an “L” waggon which fouled six points and crossings in the vicinity of the railway workshops on Thursday afternoon delayed the delivery of coal to the crane wharf for some time until repairs were carried out to the damaged lines and the waggon was replaced on the rails. Pamela McVicker, aged two years and a half, was drowned at Millerton on Wednesday afternoon. Her bod) 7 was recovered from three feet of water in a dam alongside the Miller-ton-Stockton road. The child, who was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. McVicker, was last seen playing with a companion near the dam. Apparently no one saw : the child fall into the dam.