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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1939, Page 4

Summertime onme to an end yesterday morning, when docks were put back half an hour. With a finp night experienced, the alteration was hardly noticeable yesterday.

Air Travel (N-Z.) Ltd. aeroplanes flew on 28 out of the 30 days of last month, and made 380 flights. The total number of flying hours was 169, and the number of passengers carried was 432. Mail-carried weighed 73621 b, and freight 13121 b.

May Day, or International Labour Day, is being observed as a holiday by all members of the miners’ unions today, and none of the coal mines in the Greymouth district is being worked. Under the miners’ agreement, May Day is a holiday. This is the only industrial agreement in which May Day is included.

r l he funeral of the late Mr Frederick W. Bone took place yesterday afternoon, and was largely attenuej by friends. The Rev. D. D. Thorpe conducted the services at All Saints’ v lniroli and at the graveside. The members of the Druids Lodge attended in force Bro. J. Conning reading their service at the graveside, a wealth of floral tributes was received from sorrowing friends.

When he was struck by a motor-car near Paroa about 6 o’clock last evening, a cyclist, James Alexander, married, who resides at Rutherglen, near Greymouth, suffered a broken leg. The car was driven by Albert Francis Fairhall, of Alarsden road, Greymouth, and was proceeding towards Greymouth, the cyclist, it is understood, being stationary.

Dressing gowns for cooler days. Addisons have an excellent selection of dressing gowns in all wool velonr, in green, saxe, rose, plain, and trimmed with check to tone. Womens and 0.5., 24s 9d to 41s Cd.—Advt.

Intended to be used for clearing large areas of Crown land in the Boiler district under a scheme to be formulated by the Lands Department, and later to assist farmers to clear holdings which have remained unproductive for many years, the machinery used in the recent land clearing demonstration near Westport, has been taken over by the Government. Advice to this effect was given by the Minister for Mines (the Hon. P. C. Webb) to Mr C. F. Sehadiok ClerkEngineer to the Boiler County Council, at Wellington. Farmers in the district will he asked to co-operate with the Government in promotion of an extensive land clearing scheme.

A not sum of more than £II,OOO, the best result foi some time, will he available from the proceeds of the art union conducted recently for the purpose oi raising funds to assist sports bodies in the promotion of sports attractions during tlie Centennial celebrations. Fifty applications have been received in Wellington for various amounts from this fund. A small subcommittee was appointed to attend to these applications and group them, and when this has been done the applications will ho placed before the advisory council which was appointed some time ago to deal with them. The advisory council may meet some time this week to consider the applications, hut- it probably will not be until some later date that the announcement of the allocations will be made.

The first, big drafts of mutton-birds from the Mutton-bird Iblands have reached the markets, and the price of the birds has not varied from that of last year. They are retailed at about Is uncooked, and Is 3d cooked. The Bluff vessels Kekeno Britannia, and Ranui carried most of the cargo of birds to the mainland. A total of about 25.000 birds was brought back by one Vessel, compared with nip re than 30,000 last year. It was estimated that 40,000 fewer birds wovhl be marketed this year than last year. The- Muttonbird Islands are very flat, and it is thought that water may have entered J (Some of the burrows and that some of J the younger birds may have drowned,

Robert Francis Ltd. require an office girl.

A warning to shooters at Upper Kai terangi is given in this issue by T S. Harcourt.

M. Houston and Co., notify, in this issue entries for their stock sale at Ross on Wedne&lay next, May 3.

The National Mortgage Agency notify a special sale at Ross Yards on Wednesday Ma v 10. particlars of the offer ing appearing on our front page.

At the Women’s Institute meeting to-night, Mr H. M. Goulson will be giving an interesting talk on his European tour. —Advt.

A summary of the records of temperature, rain fall and sunshine tor inn.month of March, in the latest New Zealand Gazette, shows Hokitika’s rainfall totalled 4(3lins. The number of wet days being 10. The most rainfall was recorded on March 9th when I.6lins. fell. The number of hours of bright sunshine experienced was 137.2.