LOCAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 28 February 1949, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS

The week-end saw two radwev rl> nic excursions to Lake Mahinapua, some five hundred going on Saturday from Blackball and Ngahere, while the railway employees yesterday travelled to the lake for their mmuai gathering.

Trans-Tasman passenger services are flourishing and both the Monowai and the Wanganella are well booked for forward sailings from New Zealand. Passages are still available even on near sailings, especially as lastminute cancellations are usually made. The Monowai’s next trip takes her to Auckland, where she will arrive on March 8, and sail on March 11. On her next two voyages she will come to Wellington, arriving on March 2 and April 5 and sailing on March 25 and April 8. The Wanganella is due at Wellington on Monday and will sail on Thursday. She will return on her following voyage, arriving on March 14 and sailing on March 17. She will come to Auckland on March 2'B.

Members of the Grey Branch of the New Zealand Labour Party are reminded of the annual meeting to be held in the Lyceum Hall to-mor-row evening. Business will include the election of officers and presentation of balance sheet. —Advt.

Steel is desperately short for shipping repairs in Wellington. An official of the Patent Slip said yesterday that there were practically no stocks and that they were getting only about a tenth of the quantity they ordered. The steel that is available is reserved for nothing but the most essential work. Some x’epairs have been left in abeyance for a year under an arrangement with the Marine Department.

Owing to the King and Queen not making their tour of New Zealand the people may not see the warship “Vanguard” but call at the Union Garage, Herbert Street, and see the Standard “Vanguard”, built like a Battleship.—Advt.

Urgent medical and surgical service for a civilian community that is isolated in spite of being only a few miles from Auckland, falls to the medical section of the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Hobsonville. Because there is no doctor at Pine Island, which is handy to Hobsonville, both the Air Force medical staff, consisting of a doctor, a sister and orderlies, and the station’s marine section are called upon to meet emergencies among the island’s resident population.

See the famous Standard Vanguard, full six passenger, 18 h.p. overhead valve motor, equipped with radio, airflow and temperature control, now on display at Union Garage, Herbert Street.—Advt.

The first sea training since the war by the re-formed Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve will begin next month. A draft of 24 ratings from the Wellington division will embark on March 5 in the frigates Taupo, Kaniere and Fukaki, in Auckland for seven days’ training, and on March 19 another Wellington division draft will join the Bellona in Wellington for seven days’ sea training.

Have you seen Jeff’s new bar ? Empire Hotel. Ross. —Advt.

A quantity of steel to be used in erecting Hokitika’s new post office is now stored at the site in the police camp reserve near the railway station.

The full face value of three petrol coupons (25, 26, and 27) will be available from to-morrow for March, during which unused coupons numbered 22, 23, and 24 will be also available at full face value.

Blackberries at present are ripening on the countryside and the weekend saw quite a number of pickers along the roads. The recurrence of rain is a handicap, but fair quantities are being secured. .