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Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1939, Page 4

Fntries for the Ross stock sale on Wednesday next at 1 p.m. appear in this issue.

Kokatahi-Women’s Institute. Fourth Birthday Public Hall. Kokatahi, Wednesday, May 10. Cards and dancing.— Advtl ' v

;Owing to the resignation of Cr. W. J. Blacklow, an extraordinary vacancy has occurred in the Ross Borough Council and nominations for the position will be received up to Friday, Mar 5 at noon,

The Westland County Council invites tenders ’ closing on May 22, for the construction of a deviation track, Three Mile, Okarito. Plans may be seen at the Post Office, Okarito, and the County Office. Hokitika.

Lines of interest opened at Addisons. New woollen jumper suits, cardigans, blousettes, 'dress materials, eider down quilts, blankets, flannelette sheets, all lines in winter underwear, winter. hosiery, gloves, etc. — Advt.

Members of Lodge Westland, U.A.O. D., are requested to meet at the Lodge Room to-morrow at 2.30 p.m. to attend the funeral of their late Brother, W. Bone.

The quarterly meeting of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Society will be held in the Town Hall on -Thursday next at 8 p.m.

The Gael which left Wellington las* night, is expected to arrive on Sunday evening, and will sail again for Wellington on Monday evening.

In the statement of receipts published yesterday for the recent sports meeting held by the Hokitika Club, the gate receipts should have appeared as los, and not £47 16s.

Bail up! was the order last night on the road in from Kanieri. It was only the Traffic Inspector holding up a line of cars while an inspection of licenses and certificates of fitness was being made.

The juvenile cycle race which was postponed from the programme of the Hokitika Sports Club’s recent meeting will.be held on Cass Square track on Saturday next, May 6th, during the half-time football interval. A medal has been donated for the event by Mr •Steve Havill.

A much-needed rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, fell with torrential force in Christchurch and some of the other parts of the province last night. The rain was badly needed, as the continued dry conditions have caused a scarcity of grass for winter feed in most districts.

The new freight schedule for the railways, arranged to operate as from May 1, will not be introduced until June, according to information received yesterday by the Christchurch District Traffic Manager (Mr W. Rodgers). This is. the second postponement of the operation of the schedule, under which the two highest classes, “A” and ”B n are'to be abolished, “C” becoming the top rate.-.

Since Sunday. September 25, 1938, New Zealanders have had the clocks advanced half an hour to take advantage of all the available sunshine, but to-morrow at two o’clock in the morning, summer time will officially crease, and clocks must be put back half an hour. With summer time in England, the Dominion at present is 11 hours ahead of Greenwich mean time, instead of the normal llj, but with the reversion to normal time here, the Dominion will be 10£ hours ahead of England.

Dressing gowns for cooler days. Addisons have an excellent selection of dressing gowns in alLwool velour, in green, saxe, rose, plain, and trimmed with check to tone. Womens and 34s 9d to 41s Gd.—Advt. Under the direction of the Greymouth branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, a refresher course for teachers" will be held at the Grey Main School on May 3,4, and 5. The Canterbury Education Board has granted permission for all teachers to ; attend the course and for the closing of the schools, which would otherwise close for the holidays on May 5. Unless teachers are attending the course, they must attend school as usual.

Stating that the prohibitive costs! first of food to Westland, and then pigs back to the works, made the position of the pig producer on the West Coast a. difficult one, Mr C. L. Searle, of Southbridge, told delegates to the annual meeting of the Canterbury District Pig Council in Christchurch last evening, that bacon would have to sell at 9d or lOd per lb before pig raising there could be profitable. ‘‘l have seen milk running away down the streams there,” he added. The council’s supervisor (Mr H. W. Mclntosh) said he did not think the position generally was as bad as Mr Searle suggested. There was a good prospect for the industry, properly organised, on the Coast! A remit was received from the Harihari Pig Club asking for the introduction of a system of an agricultural hank, to assist farmers with finance, and it was decided to ask the supervisor to reporton conditions at Harihari and on ways in which the council could help the farmers there.