HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 15 September 1945, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

1 (Our Own Correspondent) HOKITIKA, September 14. 1 The Gael arrived from Okuru yesterday to load a quantity of timber and supplies. She is proceeding . to Nelson, where a new engine is being installed, and she will resume operations next month. -Nine tins of whitebait arrived at Hokitika from Paringa by plane and were transported to Christchurch the other evening. ■ At Arahura one fisherman secured four' biscuit-tins full, the first catch this vear in the Arahura River, which’ last season produced plenty, including seven tons for two tides on one occasion.'" Little whitebait has yet been caught here on the Mahinapua Creek, as the, Hokitika River bar has been somewhat flooded. The Maindy trophy for basketball has been won by the Old Girls’ team, who won the final from St. Marys by

9to 5. Other results were: Ist. round: School A 9 beat St. Pat’s o, St. Marys 7 beat School B '1; Old Girls 12, beat Victorians 0; Ruatapu 4, beat Uniteds 3. Second round: Old Girls 7 beat School A 2. bt. Marys 12, beat Ruatapu 0. This morning whitebait were moie plentiful, thougn the river is not yet free from flooding. Catches of a few pints were made along the training wall. Irvine and Stevenson, Dunedin canners, have now operatives here to conduct their factory, in which to-day a start in installing a new boiler was made. The firm has been canning here since 1905, prior to which the local canner was the late Mr G. A. Wood. , , r Mr Malcolm Davidson, ex-rep. haltback, has gone to Blenheitn with the West Coast team for the Seddon Shield match. ■ A Westport junior football team to-morrow plays a local team at 2.30 p.m. The visitors, who arrive in the morning, will remain until Sunday evening.