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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1937, Page 4

A reminder is given of the auction sale of a valuable dairy herd at Ross saleyards to-morrow at noon by Messrs M. Houston and Co. The total number of wireless receiving licenses in force in Britain at the end of July was 8,269,500, an increase during the year of 550,700. Ask for your requirements. We will produce them quality g :ods at Annivei’sary sale prices. The brightest and busiest spot in Hokitika. The Bristol, Revel 1 Street Advt. Mr Boy Duncan, of Atarau, met with a serious accident while working at the dismantling of the Brian Born dredge. Owing to the winch catch slipping, the handle cau'dit Duncan under the-chic and broke his jaw bone. Thrifty mothers are buy’ng boys singlets in half dozen and eleven lets. Beys shirts, underwear, overcoats, raincoats at “give away” juices. f|ee them! The Bristol Anniversary Sale.—Advt. On Cass Square to-morrow morning two school football fixtures between primary and secondary teams from Greymouth and the Hokitika District High School will he played. Attention is also drawn to the alteration in time for the senior fixture, Ross v. Kiwi, , which will now take place at 1.30 p.m

It is expected that the Wallsend mine will resume work next week, arrargemnts having been made to replace the boiler which was found defective last week with a temporary mine boiler. The concrete foundations to receive the new boiler have already been laid. The miners have been idle all this week, and are unlikely to work a shilt he!ore next Thursday. Our selling off is proceeding apace. Do not miss this chance of money saving. 160 yards of whitebait netting, double mesh, in white and invisible, must go for 2s per yard at Schroeder’s selling off sale. —Advt. No increase will be made in rates in the Borough of Westport lor the current year beginning on April I last. Particulars of the rates to he struck at a future meeting were made available yesterday, and they disclose that a cun solidated rate amounting to 13d In the £. and a water rate amounting to 3d in the £, will be struck. A rebate ol per cent, will be allowed on rates paid by October 16. Fashions for the thrifty at Addison’s. All winter frocks and woollen suits marked at half-price and less for immediate clearance. Millinery selling at half sale prices and less. Visit our showroom for these bargains. Addison’s for greater savings on quality, goods.— Advt,

It was announced in the Gazette last night that two scholarships, valued at £35 a year, tenable for- two years, will be offered for competition this year among Maori boys under the To Makarini scholarship fund. One will lie a senior scholarship for Maori boys ruder 16, and the other a junior scholarship for Maori boys in regular attendance at native schools under 14 years of age. The scholarships will be decided by examination. Reginald King. aged 29 years, of Grnnitv, employed as a hushinan at St. Helen’s, was admitted to the Buller Hospital on Wednesday, with a crushed hand suffered while at his work and Robert McKenna, of Hector, 40 years of ago, a miner employed by the Stockton Coal Company, was also admitted to the Buller Hospital with a crushed hand caused by an accident at the mine. In accordance with the resolution passed recently by the West Coast Sawmillcrs’ Association, mills cutting red pine throughout the West Coast, are to-day observing the second of the holidays designed to overcome the difficulties facing the millers through the falling-off of the red pine trade. A further holiday will he observed on Wednesday, August 25. In the ordinary course of events, the holiday would be again observed on Friday, August 28, hut it has been agreed to take the holiday on 'Wednesday, in view of the Springbok football match, at Grey mouth on that day.

Patersons have just opened tlioir new season’s whitebait netting in the approved winter-dressed shade. This is the netting 'introduced by us some three years ago, and used by professional fishermen throughout the Coast with such success. If you are wise you will prepare for the opening of the season on August I. 'BO-inch, wide, double mesh, 2s fkl yard.—Adrt,

There will be a Presbyterian Chnrch Service in Kokatahi on Sunday next at 2.3 J p.m. White butterflies have been making their appearance locally during the past few days. Longford Hall, Kokatahi. Card tournament, euchre, and forty-fives. Hokitika play Kokatahi 45’<; to-morrow (Saturday) night.—Advt. In England at the Oval, to-morrow, the New Zealand cricket team commence their third test match against England. Methodist Church services will he held on Sunday, August 15, at Ross at 11 a.m. and Waitaha at 2.30 p.m. Special music by the Methodist choir. Preacher, Rev. Allon Carr, The Reserve Rank statement this week shows a decrease in the holding of sterling exchange of £723,000, and an increase in advances from the dain account of £70,300. Among the lia hi likes, notes have decreased by £-9,300, demand liabilities to the State by £112,000. and to the Banks by £632,2 .0. Other demand liabilities have inc.e..seO by £93,700.

The Government Statist'cian has published figures for the New Zealand export J’ear to June 30, 1937, which show that the total value of shipments of all merchandise reached £61,621,4,4 a rise of £10,961,511 over the p e.ims period. The main rise, one which accounted for 55 per cent, of the in crease, was in the value of woo', which at £18,770,6.‘3 was £0.008,145 hijier than in the previous year.

The opinion that kiwis are increasing in number in the Arthur’s Pass district is expressed in a report that has been made to the Arthur’s Pass National Park Hoard by its ranger. The report says that a kiwi was caught in the township this week by a dog; but it was dead before it could be released. One man who has lived in the settlement for the last nine years had said that this was the first kiwi lie had seen in the township, and the ranger believed that these birds must l>e increasing considerably in number. It is believed that the bird was caught at the back of the hostel.

Mr James O’Brien, M.P., has received the following reply which refers to Gibb, and Docherty Roads, and ae: css to Mr J. C- Christianson, Oemee.oa: — “Dear Sir: I am in- receipt of your letters of the Bth and 12th July in eon nection with the representations which were made to you by Messrs Gbb Bros, during a recent tour into South Westland. As a result of the support which you have given to the request for a grant towards the cost of con structing a road from File Main South Highway along the south hank of the Waiho River to the Coast l am noling the position carefully for review during the preparation of the next Estimates. You may rest assured that the req ics will be given the fullest possible consideration before the Estimates are finalised. Yours faithfully, H. C. R Mason (for the Minister of Public Works).”