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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 60, 3 August 1944, Page 2

Air Alf. Wallace, late of the Pier Hotel, invites residents when visiting Christchurch, to call at the ‘Cave Rock Hotel, Sumner.

In a list of wounded overseas, appears the name of Corp. Adrian Edward Paul Kilian, formerly of Oaro.

The fortnightly dance conducted by the Social Club of the P.W.D., will be held on Thursday night next, at the Social Hall, Beach Road. The dance to have been held at Hapuku Hall on Friday night has been postponed in favour of the dance to be held in the Suburban Hall on Saturday night.

Air and Mrs Alex Boyd, of Schoolhouse Road, will celebrate the anniversary of their diamond wedding on August .14. Mr H. Boyd, their son, who is manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Mosgiel, is to be present. The Social Club of the N.Z. Workers’ Union (Kaikoura) has made a donation of £lO 10/ towards the Kaikoura quota of the 1944 Patriotic Appeal. This was announced by Mr Lett Bray at the public meeting on Tuesday night. The statement was received with hearty applause. The presence for the first tiny) in New Zealand of Cape tulip, a South African plant, which causes serious stock poisoning in parts of Australia, was recorded by the botany division of the Plant Research Bureau during its weed investigations last year. The plant has come under suspicion as far as stock are concerned in the area in which it occurs in the South Island. Some four acres are known to be infested in Marlborough, with odd plants on the adjacent hillsides to a distance of more than two miles.

A pleasant little function took place at the County Council Office on Tuesday afternoon, when A.C.2 Len Harris, A.C.I Colin Hitchcock, and Able Seaman L. O. Guthrie were gests of honour of the Soldiers’ Entertainment Committee, and were recipients of gifts by Mr F. J. Monk (County ‘Chairman), on behalf of the people of Kaikoura. Mr Monk wished the guests all good luck and a happy future. Each of the recipients replied, thanking the organisers for an enjoyable afternoon, and the people for their gifts. Messrs D. M. Jack, A. B. Clark, R. S. Williams and W. J. Burland also wished the men all the best. A dainty afternoon tea was I provided by Mrs Hewson (County Clerk). i