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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1938, Page 4

A notification by the No. Transport Authority appears in this issue.

The election campaign addresses will be opened at Hokitika on Tuesday night at the Princess Theatre when the Hon. P. C. Webb and Mr James O’Brien, member for Westland, will address the electors at 8 o’clock

The Ranfurly Shield match between Ashburton and Southland ha s been set down definitely for September 24 at Invercargill, according to confirmation received from the Southland R’urby Union by the Ashburton Rugby Union yesterday.

A substantial increase in the membership of South Island automobile associations ig recorded in the annual report of the South Island Motor Union. The total is now 23,950, compared with 19,058 in 1937. In 1934 membership totalled only 13,218.

Spring Deliveries ! Coloured towels, large shipments just to hand. Outstanding in quality weave and weight. Colour plays an important part in the latest productions. Beautifu} blendings and artistic designs. See special display at Addison’s.—Advt.

The polling places for the Westland General Election have previously extended a long distance south, as far as Okuru. For the coming General Election there will be a polling booth at Jackson Bay, and one also at Haast Pass, some three miles on the Westland side where some 200 men are at present in camp. The big majority of the votes tt> be cast there, however, will be for constituencies other than Westland. The arrangements for the booth are being made from the Otago side.

Seamen will assume the status of ordinary voters at the General Election as a result of an alteration to the electoral law which was made when the Statutes Amendment Bill was before the Legislative Council. “They will be able to walk into any polling booth and exercise their franchise, the same as any other elector”, said the Prime Minister (Mr Savage) at Wellington yesterday. Under the existing law tho procedure is oumbersorre, seamen being required to apply for the right , vote,

Mr H. Kortegast inserts a notice of thanks in this issue

The Assembly dance takes place as usual, in the Soldiers’ Hall this evening, when a full programme of mixed dancing begins at 8.30. Music will be provided by the Victorian Dance Band and the usual dance prizes will be awarded.—Advt.

The London equivalents of the basic guaranteed prices for butter , and cheese, which were announced in the House of Representatives yesterday by the Minister for Marketing (the Hon. W. Nash) are : 124 s3d per cwt for butter, and /3s 9d per cwt for cheese These figures were supplied to-day by the New Zealand Marketing Department.

A total of 41 placements were secured through the State Placement Service at Grey-mouth 1 this week. Three general farm labourers were found permanent employment, also one youth (general carpenter); One seaman (stoker) was placed in temporary employment, and five general labourers in casual work. In addition 331 men were placed in State Departments or in full time subsidised employment.

The gold yield in Western Australia in August was 100,050 ounces, valued at £688,274, Australian. currency, the highest monthly total since August, 1915, when it was' 101,021 ounces. The yield last month was 5883 ounces above July and 11,945 ounces more than in August last year. The edsrht months’ output was 749,755 ounces, an. increase of 106,249 ounces compared with the corresponding period of 1937. Increased production on the, east Coolgardie goldfield by the Great Boulder and Lake. View and Star companies was responsible for the improvement.

The hope, echoed on all sides of the House, that the coming election campaign would be conducted in a manner that would not be. unworthy of New Zealand’s tradition of. democracy wag expressed by the Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. Adam Hamilton) during the valedictory speeches in thy House of Representatives yesterday. “May I express to the Government members my hopes for a pleasant and interesting campaign,’’ said Mr Hamilton. “I hope it will be conducted in a way that will be worthy of our great that will be worthy. of our great tradition of democracy, and that nothing that is in any way unworthy will occur.”

Using their strong, sharp beaks to cut the wires of’their cage in the Invercargill gardens alongside' the I’urti creek the two keas which have been in captivity for nearly two years enjoyed an hour or two of liberty in the sunstates the ‘ Southland Daily News.” A householder in Eye street went into the hack garden to inspect the fowls found one of the keas hau invaded the run. Tile other bird showed a fondness for . perambulator tyres and glass houses. A woman who was wheeling .a pram in a private garden was surprised to find an escort interested in the moving wheels, and who hv continual peckings threatened to cut the rubber tyres to shreds. After a feed of rubber and some soliloquising at a distance, the bird made off, and was later found admiring the specimens l in a glasshouse.