LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 20 November 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Advice that houses for sawmill West Coast workers at sawmills could be prefabricated locally is to be sent to the Housing Department by the Westland Master Builders’ Association, who decided at a meeting to" protest against a recently announced plan for the' prefabrication to be done at Wellington.

Just arrived. All sizes, Boys’ Pyjamas; good quality. Post free. —H. Hamer, Kumara. —Advt.

The holiday for the Anniversary of Westland, which falls on December 1. will be observed on February 17, the second day of the Grey J.C. races, this having been agreed on by the shopkeepers and employees’ organisations.

Plunket mothers! Bring your donations to the shop at Herb. Moore’s next Friday, Plunket Rose Day.— Advt.

Good progress was again recorded last week towards the attainment of the Dominion national savings objective of £6.000,000 for the current financial year,. 297 places having attained their individual quotas for the week. In every postal district the full district quota was attained. Westport and Christchurch districts both achieved tiheir full year’s uqotas thereby enabling the South Island to claim all district quota objectives for the year. In the North .Island the Napier district also recorded its annual success. Excellent progress was in evidence in the expansion of the national savings group scheme, 400 new regular week-by-week savers being enrolled, including the establishmaent of an additional six new groups among' the" employees of various firms.

A -woman sentenced with hard labour has been appealed for by the Westland Laundry Limited. This case has caused wide comment in Greymouth and surrounding districts. The sentence was that all rugs, blankets, curtains, eiderdowns and drapings were to be laundered before the* festive season. The Westland Laundry Limited has offered to serve the sentence on condition that all these articles are sent <o their modern laundry by December 6th. After this date they will not be handling- the articles until January, 1947. Do not delay—send early and avoid disappointment. Telephone 136 or leave parcels ‘at our Depot—Sam McAra. —Advt.

Last week Clutha River Co’s dredge operating at Alexandra worked 127 hours for 161 oz. of gold. The yard age for the past four weeks has been 189.009.—Press Assn.

Rump steak and oyster pudding is a specialty of the “Cheshire Cheese',” the famous old tavern in a lane just off Fleet Street. Once upon a time the ancient house was frequented by a host of celebrities including Dr. Samuel Johnson, whose favourite seat is pointed out to this day. Upstairs is the quaint smoke-room, with its long table and array of “churchwarden” clay pipes. Here the wits and men of letters were wont to congregate, and much tobacco was consumed, but whether its quality approached that of some oi our modern tobaccos, notably “toasted,” is very much open to question. It has been truly said that when a smoker takes to “toasted” he has no time for any other tobacco. It is so fragrant and comforting. The six (and only genuine) toasted brands, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold and Pocket Edition, have everything to recommend them.— Advt.