LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 10 November 1949, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The famous passion play will be held next Easter in Bavaria at Oberrammergau. Anno Marie Mayr, aged 20, a student, will take the part of Mary. Most of the leading actors in the last performance in 1934 are too old to stand the strain of being eight hours on the stage every day for a fortnight. Almost all of them were Nazis, except Judas, Max Zwink, a musician and painter. Alois Lang, played the part of Jesus in 1934 and runs Oberammergau,s most modern hotel. He has been excluded next Easter because he was a former Nazi. The role of Jesus carries a payment of more than £450. Karl Preisinger, aged 37. a hotel owner, will play the part of Jesus.

A surgical operation, lasting one and a-half hours, was successfully televised at the Melbourne Women’s Hospital. The medical superintendent. Dr W. D. Rehshauge, said it was the first time in the Southern Hemisphere that an operation had been televised. About 20 doctors and nurses watched the operation on a television screen about 50 yards from the operating ■table. The demonstration was the forerunner of a television training campaign.

Mass will be celebrated on next Sunday, November 13. at Rotomanu, 8 a.m.', and Kotuku, 10.15 a.m.—Advt.

On the 19th inst. there will arrive at Auckland six girls and 14 boys, being the fifth party of British children coming to New Zealand under the Government’s child migration scheme. They will be placed in homes throughout New Zealand under the supervision of the child welfare branch of the Education Department. The Atlantis is due to sab from Southampton on November 25 with a further batch of migrants, and is expected at Wellington on January 11. She is bringing about 900 single men and women for essential jobs.

The Wellington Rugby Union’s profit last season was approximately £4OOO, and it will be utilised to improve Athletic Fark.

The following applications were granted by Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Warden’s Court, Greymouth, yesterday: John Robert Symes, ordinary prospecting licence, 161 acres, block 10, and 48 acres, block 11, Mawheranui S.D.; William Charles Symes, ordinary prospecting licence, 41 acres, block 10, Mawheranui S.D.; William John Dennehy, waterrace, block 9, Waiwhero S.D., three heads, 21 years (subject to non-interference with the rights of Jane Ryall under waterrace licence No. 34/1913); John Douglas Craig, leave to enter and peg section 2913, block 8, Mawheranui S.D., owned by Henry Dalziel. Applications recommended for the consent of the Minister of Mines were: John Eadie ordinary prospecting licence over 45 acres, block 16, Waiwhero S.D.; Edward Jeffrey Mann, for ordinary prospecting licence over 59 acres, block 2, Mawheranui S.D.; Carl Henry Gillman, for surrender of water-race licence 8398, dated July 1, 1935. Have you seen Jeff's new bar ? Empire Hotel, Ross. —Advt. The Greymouth War Memorial plans were discussed at a combined meeting of the War Memorial Committee, representatives of the West Coast Swimming Centre, and the West Coast Basketball Association, and a motion by Mr F. A. Kitchingham was carried, as follows: “That this committee recommends that plans be obtained for the whole of the war memorial scheme —detailed plans and specifications for the bath buildings, including roofing and heating of the water and community hall, also plans in connection with basketball courts .on the acceptable site, the cost of such plans to be apportioned against the subsidy obtainable by reason of the Swimming Centre and BaskeWaH Association moneys, and any balance of the cost to be advanced by the Borough Council”.

‘‘Grand Hills for Sheep”, Georgina McDonald’s story of early Otago, which won the Otago Daily Tim.es centennial fiction contest, is sole, out in the first edition, and a second edition is being considered.

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

Te Wai Founamu Maori Girls’ College, Christchurch, is offering an Old Girls Association Scholarship, also the Eveleyn Couzins Memorial Bursary, for which application closes on November 30. The scholarship has a term of four years and the bursary of one year. Candidates for the scholarship must have passed Standard six, be not more than 14s years of age on February 1, 1950, and of good health and sound constitution. The scholarship is valued at £36 per annum, reducing the amount of fees payable by parents to £lB per annum (£6 per term) plus £1 per term incidentals. Candidates for the Bursary must have had three or more years post primary education. The bursary reduces fees to £7 per term (£2l per year) plus incidentals. Both are intended to help outstanding girls to adopt a professional career (teaching or nursing) in which they can be of special service to the Maori people. Application formal may be obtained from the Principal. Te Wai Pounamu College, 2'90 Ferry Road, Linwood, Christchurch.

For bookmaking at the Devonport naval base, Richard Guy Paul Earl, aged 41, a boilermaker, • was fined £5O, in default six months’ gaol, at Auckland yesterday in the Police Court. The police said one apprentice became financially involved and stayed away from work. Earl, when arrested, possessed papers relating to bets totalling £316 on live race days. Counsel for Earl said that bets were taken not as a business, but to oblige bettors by handing them on for commission. At Lower Hutt yesterday, on a charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker, Frederick Arthur Mervyn Kifching, aged 49. was fined £lOO by Mr A. A. McLachlan, S.M. ■ I T.

Eighteen vessels, totalling 15,161 tons arrived'at Greymouth during the last month, reported the Harbourmaster, Captain H. Moar, at last night’s meeting of the Greymouth Harbour Board. Captain Moar, in his report, added that dredging operations in the harbour were urgent and he estimated that it would require five weeks of dredging before the harbour was cleared again.