LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 22 March 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A notice in Thursday night’s Gazette announces that the period within which the Gaming Commission is required to report, has been extended to August 31. A donation of £25 towards the Greymouth Volunteer Fire ■ Brigade’s eightieth birthday celebrations to be held next month, was ’granted at this week’s meeting by the Greymouth Borough Council. Don’t forge.t .to pay your Brunner rates before March 24th. —Advt. Advice has been received from Hokitika that good white pine logs have been procured for the Hokitika sports meeting to be held a week from to-day. Choppers are reminded that nominations close for all events to-night (Saturday).

The Westport Competitions Society’s annual festival will be held from May -19 to May 24. Vocal, dancing, instrumental and elocution. Syllabus available on application to Robt. Francis, Greymouth and Hokitika.—Advt.

Mr Justice Fleming yesterday at Christchurch admitted to two years’ probation Margaret Campbell Doel, aged 21, of Taylorville, who had pleaded guilty at Greymouth to concealing the birth of her child. He said he agreed with counsel for the prisoner (Mr W. D. Taylor) that it was a case for probation, ordering that she obey the probation officer in regard to the company and hours' she should keep. She previously had been acquitted on a charge of murder.

The Wataroa Sports Club are now holding their meeting on Saturday, April 26. £220 in prize money. Full programme advertised elsewhere in this issue—Advt.

A special meeting of the Greymouth Borough Council is to be called to discuss projected improvements to the concert chamber of the Greymouth Town Hall. At the Borough Council meeting on Thursday, the Mapor (Mr F. A. Ktchngham) said that the Town Hall was 1 a disgrace to the borough. The plan submitted appeared to offer an opportunity to effect improvements without entailing the greater costs of complete renovation of the municipal building.

Workers; Defy the rain. New stocks of Oily Canvas Roadman’s Coats with small cape, round shoulders and backs; elbow sleeves, 30/-; long sleeves, 35/-. Post free iron: I-I. Hamer, Kumara. —Advt.

Members of the West Coast Sawmillers’ Association have completed applications for 20 of the new prefabricated houses designed for bush workers, and it is expected that in the near future, West Coast builders will be called upon to tender lor their construction. The cost of the houses is estimated as being in tie vicinity of £20,000. Finance foi w bush workers’ homes is arrange through the State Advances 9 01 P/ 1 tion (repayable by means of already being paid on all timber cut) and the actual building will be X/vlsed “J officers of the Housing Department. An assurance all of the houses required on the We Coast will be built, has already been given. -

Reporting to the Greymouth Borough Council at its meeting on Thursday night on the Road Safe y Week to be held in Greymouth next month, Cr J. B. Kent stated that the programme would include addresses over radio station 3ZR by Hon. J. O’Brien, the Mayor of Greymouth (Mr F. A. Kitchingham), and by Transport Department officials. Two film evenings would be held, and street banners and shop window displays would be used to make the public traffic conscious. Loud speakers would be used to control pedestrian traffic, and lectures would be given to school children. The week would include two light tests, in which motorist offenders would have safety precautions explained, but would not have proceedings issued against them.

The -Borough Council on Thursday evening received a letter from Mr A. Beban, lessee of the Town Hall, who stated that, in view of the unreliable reports concerning the rents paid by the Greymouth R.S.A. for the use of the Town Hall for weekly dances, he wished to make it clear that the total payments up to February 2'l, 1947, were £lBO 10s for a period of 18 months—an average of £2 10s a week. The lessee had to pay £1 weekly for moving seats, and when this deduction was made, he was left with a balance of £1 10s a week. His statement was endorsed by the secretary of the R.S.A. dance committee (Mr S. Worthington).

A patient of the Seaview Mental Hospital escaped from custody at 5 p.m. yesterday. The patient is a man 81 years of age, about sft 2'n in height, weighs about seven stone, is grey and partly bald, and thinly built. He walks with a stoop, and is attired in a grey woollen tweed suit and cap. He is wearing strap buckle shoes, and was last seen heading towards Throe Mile.