LOCAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 23 August 1949, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS

The Tory Channel whalers have taken 139. whales this year, 28 more than the previous-best record.

On Saturday evening the Vestria, latest addition to the Northern Steamship Company’s coastal fleet, arrived at Port Whangarei with 840 tons of North African phosphate. She was built in Sweden and was four months on the voyage from England to Whangarei.

The New Zealand Marching Association has decided that the North Island championships next year will be held at Auckland, and the South Island championships at Invercargill. The New Zealand championships will be held at New Plymouth next year and at Christchurch in 1951. Entries in the North Island championships are now restricted to three teams rfom each centre and, in future, only the winning team in each of the 19 centre championships will take part in the New Zealand championships in addition to the island championship winners, should they not have been centre champions.

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

At Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, a Finnish seaman, Raime Olavi Karhunen, aged 20, who had been a member of the crew of the Norwegian tanker. Herbrand, which sailed from Wpllilngtqn on Friday evening, and from which two Norwegian seamen fell when the vessel was at the heads, was sentenced to six months imprisonment as a prohibited immigrant, and ordered to be deported. Though Karhunen speaks no English, and had no counsel. a solicitor present, Mr J. A. Grace, intervened and asked for a re-hearing, to enable an interpreter to attend.

The Belle of the Annual Celtic Ball will be judged at 10.30 p.m. in Sturge Street Hall, to-night (Tuesday)', August 23. —Advt.

The Greymouth Borough Council workmen yesterday made a start on the reconstruction work in Tainui Street. Work in the section of thr road from Chapel Street to Grogan’s Lane is expected to take several months. The road however, will not be closed to traffic as the reconstruction work is to be done in three strips, leaving two-thirds of the road width available to traffic. Some 500 yards of metal will be required for the short section .of the street now receiving attention. The councils mechanical excavator is being used to tear up the surface of the street. It is intended to lessen the convexity of the street, which will eliminate the present sharp dips into t le side channels, thus improving the street, for parking.

The Otira Gorge route to Christchurch, which was blocked during the week-end by a slip in the vicinity of Candy’s Bend, about two-thirds of the way up the gorge, was open for traffic yesterday afternoon.

The Melanesian Anglican Mission’s ship, “Southern Cross”, the seventh of that name to serve the Mission during the past century, is expected at Auckland at the end of this week. She will then undertake a goodwill tour of New Zealand in celebration of the Mission’s centenary.—Press Assn.