LOCAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 12 October 1949, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS

A section of the Liverpool mine is

: i . -i? ’■• itil tomorrow or Friday because of repairs to the fan motor, which burned cut on Monday

Mr C. C. Couchma.i has tendered '-■is resign ttm” as President of the Greymouth Workingmen’s, Club. Mr Couchman was re-elected to the office

at the last annual meeting, and his term was to have ended in March of next year?

Mass will be celebrated on next Sunday, October 16 at Te Kinga, 8 a.m. and at Kokiri 10.15 a.m. —Advt.

Messrs J. A. N. Hogg, J. W. Laws and K. W. Dane, all of whom are employed in the accountancy firm of Harvey and Laws, at Hastings, have won £lO,OOO in an Australian sweep. They have been taking a ticket each week for about 18 months under the nom de plume of “Two J’s and a K . During that period by dispatching their investments in advance at the rate of £lO a time they have been able to book the same ticket number 23,115, in each consultation.

During the first week they were on sale, the Dominion sales of Health Stamps totalled £82,500, which is the highest for this period recorded and and £7,571 in advance of the first week last year.

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

The fine war service of the Union Company’s passenger steamer Monowai will be recognised by Auckland Returned Services’ Association next week when the liner will be presented with a plaque signifying her creation as an honorary member of the Association. The honour is believed to be unique in the world. Now in the Tasman service, the Monowai will arrive from Sydney on Tuesday. On the following Thursday the plaque and a replica of the Association’s badge will be presented by the Auckland President of the Association, t Mr A. P. Postlewaite, at g. function aboard the liner. The Dominion President, Sir Howard Kippenberger, has been invited. —Press Assn.

Take “De Reszke”—See Wally Haybittle’s New Look Railway Hotel, Kumara Junction.—Advt.

A sh-.)-t sto:y, with til? Greymouth wharf as its setting and written by Mrs S. i' Dalton of Winnie Street, Greymouth has won first prize in a competition conducted by the New Zealand Women Writers and Artists Association. Mrs Dalton told the “Argus” yesterday that the story which is titled “Scrt’mcrJ Annihilates Fewer,” was her nrrt submitted for several years. Gwin" certain circumstances. she was unable to conlinuc writing until quite recently before which time she had sold numerous articles and stories to New Zealand and Australian newspapers and i-magazines. Readers of New Zealand liteidure will remember one of her stories, which was published in a volume ol ihe New Zealand prose in England several years ago, and was prefaced by the vcll-known writer, Mr Hugh Walpole, a New Zealander himself Mrs Dalton said that she was interested in writing a novel with the We!. Cxi.’-i, particularly Greymouth, as the b.u-kgrmmd. “I have been collecting cuttings about the Coast for some time nou.” sh? said. Meanwhile she is occ’.ipying her spare time by planning and wiiting more short stories, encouraged greatly by her latest succ-T's.