HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1945, Page 6

HOKITIKA NOTES

FOiir Own Correspondent] LOur uw HOKITIK A, Adi-H 26. Al the Warden’s Court, before Mr A A McLachlan (Warden) the folowing applications were successful: t r quad dam license and water ?ac?;‘ Albert F. Singer and Stephen McLeod Honey, extended alluvial claim; James White, ordinary prospecting license; Kamen Gold Dredging Cov two ordinary prospecting licenses'- ’J. J- Hevcldt, renewal of town lease’ Neil Mardell, surrender of mining privileges; Charles' Smith, renewal of license for water race; Sylvia Mary Weaver, surrender of license for ’special sea beach claim; Martin A. Priest, renewal of license for water race and special site license. The following applications were adjourned.- Hector R. Baxter and Ernest Edwin Lewer, mineral license; Mary Harris, surrender of mining privileges and water race license; Stuart and Chapman, renewal of license for water race; Mary Harris, license for a water race; Alma Bannister, application for renewal of extended sea beach claim; Eva Bannister, an extended sea beach claim; David Glass, special sea beach claim. In Gerald P. Rea’s application for a water race decision was reserved. J'oseph J. Thompson’s application for renewal of a sea beach claim was withdrawn. HOKITIKA, April 26. Rev. Father Keane, formerly of St. Mary’s Parish, Hokitika, who recently left for Hawarden, will be tendered a farewell social at St. Mary’s Club Rooms on Monday evening next. The radio appeal in the Hokitika area netted £l9l. The Hokitika Revue Company next Wednesday will give their first performance of the season, the revue “Happy Daze,” in aid of the Red Cross Society. There is a very bright and diversified programme and it is bound to be popular. Yesterday morning, following an overnight deterioration of the weather. there was a thunderstorm, with vivid lightning, and a gale of 55 miles an hour, Anzac Day proving very bleak. Early this morning another gale and thunderstorm occurred, the wind reaching 68 miles an hour. The air service was again suspended, and the rail-car did not arrive till noon. The wind caused some damage; a plate glass window at Truman’s drapery store in Tancred Street being blown in; also three windows at the premises of Jeffries and Coy. Numerous wireless aerials, tin chimneys and a power pole were also brought down. In country districts the electric supply was cut off, apparently through trees bringing down the lines. A number of fences in town were blown over, and a garage was unroofed. The gale had only somewhat moderated by mid-day. At Jackson Bay, the wind was only at eight miles an hour, and it would appear as if the south-west storm struck the coast about half-way between Hokitika and Jackson Bay. The m.v. Gael was sheltering at Jackson Bay. The sea off Hokitika was particularly rough. The Anzac Day parade of returned soldiers, Red Cross, V.A.D’s., Boys’ Brigade, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Home Servicemen yesterday headed by the Band, went from the Soldiers’ Hall, to the Regent Theatre, the adverse weather preventing any further procedure out of doors. The Mayor, Mr. A. R>. Elcock, opened the proceedings and Archdeacon Petrie, of Christchurch, gave the occasional address. A collection was taken towards the headstones at the soldiers’ memorial plot. Returned servicemen visited the cemetery and placed wreaths on soldiers’ graves, and later placed wreaths on the Cenotaph and South African War Memorial.