REEFTON NOTES

Grey River Argus, 31 January 1946, Page 8

REEFTON NOTES

LOur Own Correspondent]

REEFTON, January 30. Mr and Mrs R. Black have returned from Christchurch.

Corporal J. A. Robertson, who returned from overseas by yesterday’s rail-car, was given a welcome home last, evening by a large number of friends.

Driver D. Scott, son of Mr and Mrs D. Scott, Buller Road, will arrive by the Orion next week. The funeral of the late Mrs Henrietta Elizabeth Banks,.which took place yesterday, was attended by residents from all parts of the Coast. The cortege, which was a lengthy one, was headed by members of the Reefton Fire Brigade. Rev. F. E. Trimm took the service at the residence and at the graveside. The Director of the Reefton School of Mines advises that mining classes will be resumed very shortly. New students will be enrolled in Reefton on the evening of February 8, from 7 to 9 p.m., and in Blackball on Monday, February 11, at the same time. The enrolment classes for the Wallsend and Waiuta centres will be held the following week. Students from the School were highly successful in. the 1945 examinations, and a record attendance is expected again this year. Proposed works submitted to the Buller-Inangahua Regional Planning Council which met at Reefton, the Mayor of Westport (Mr J. M. Robertson) presiding, include the following: Reefton-Lewis Pass highway construction of 24ft sealed highway, £200,000; Inangahua Junction-Reef ton highway and Inangahua JunctionWestport highway, 24ft sealed, £400,000; Ikamatua-Reefton highway £100,000; Brown Creek-Landing Inangahua camp £100,000; development of Maruia Springs as a tourist and health centre under State control £20,000; drilling and geological survey of coal areas between Reefton and Landing £25,000, 12 months’ work for 20 men; State housing £260,000; Reefton Hospital and Nurses’ Home £lOO,000; renewal of reservoir pipe-line and water extensions £20,000; widening and repairing Alexander Road £2000; erection of public hall, library, and club rooms as war memorial £20,000; levelling and creation of public playing area on the racecourse £4000; Reef ton-Junction prevention of river erosion £50,000; telephone via Lewis Pass to Canterbury £6000; removal of timber and second growth £240,000; erection of flax mill and development of resources of Rotokohu £30,000; afforestation, aerodrome, protection of natural/ bush adjoining Lewis Pass highway, carbonising and briquetting works, completion of Kawatiri-In-angahua Junction railway, construction of improved yarding and new railway station, and increase in rolling stock are also to be investigated.