WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 21 April 1945, Page 3

WESTPORT NOTES

I WESTPORT, April 20. I The state of the bar is still preI venting shipping movements. The Kiwitea is due from Wellington to I load for Auckland. The Poolta is due | to-morrow from Gisborne, to load for i Wellington. Mr S. E. Lambert left for Wellingi ton by air on Thursday. I Miss P. Bond left yesterday on re- | turn to Greymouth. At a recent garden party at the I Westport Technical High School, £ll7 6s 6d was raised. It will be devoted | to providing amenities at the school. The football season will open toI morrow when several clubs will play ■ friendly games. Fixtures will commence on Saturday next. A strike occurred at the WestportSiockton State mine to-day, idling between 200 and 300 men, producing between 500 and 600 tons of coal daily. The Council agreed to a deduction of Sd per day from miners’ pay for transport from Stockton to the loop, where they entrain in tubs for the mine. The miners objected to the deduction. Later the dispute was settled. The miners will resume work on Monday. I Private cables have been received ; that Sergeants Ron Hav McKenzie 1 and D. L. Strachan, who were prison- : ers of war, are now safe and well in . England.