WEST COAST NOTES

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18408, 15 June 1925, Page 15

WEST COAST NOTES

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I! (smccui to "tnt !>»««.") 7 GlfflYMOtyTft.Jrattft 14. J %t the last meeting of thG Sofls feugh Council a deputation requested., ITit hand over a siio adjoining 1 tfie! foliation Hall to allow of its Use pig the summer months for sports EjJastiines. A movement is afoot to JMtan organisation which will promoto wis, croquet and other. • games. (The lneU promised to consider the pro|v Mining Matters, ' pevcral forking places in the Blaclthavo been abandoned, owing jgpO discovery of a CTeop, this slightly tho output of the colliery. J||ho Denniston mine, which works 3is c consistently than any other on the jWWty'TYas idle one day Inst week Owing s|s shortage of shipping at 'w'estport. I JSt is\ stated that tho visit of ■ Messrs ' MfirKimbell and J. A. C. Bayne to : JM, State Colliones district is not un-, with the Department's inten-1 [w&tb reintroduce the co-operative I &ntta s ui sections of tlio. mine' when PttbJe agreements can bo' negotiated. vjW I»avo also visited tho Eeefton and v&ttlt£\listricts during the past few m { M"h . Licensing Committee. quarterly meeting of tho #rtiieka Licensing" Coramittco the appliSato for renewals, with the exception j&thpee in Rcefton, were granted. In ; stated the applications were' tysWJfned to enable the" lieenseos to jfPecfc minov improvements. jfyf-5 Holdtlka Borough Council. (Mr G. A. Perry) presided K.*Mfprtnightly meeting of tho Hoki|VWpjr;oUgh Council. ; resolved that -.members foria aWSwiVos iuto a committee to roccive raSWOT«P n 3 for a.national memorial to !£gfe'Eritao Minister. " PW.Oounty Council was empowered to jWmHho heavy lorry tax on behalf jasfM, decided to hand (over tho por|3}K"South Hokitika which, was 3fiSffe\ included ■ in the borough, to naJwliWty Council'on July: Ist. H. L. Michol, M.L.C., Was §?s§sss. to represent the Council o» |M*Hpptitation to tjie Government with M«M 4 * to the Grcvmouth-Westport S&MSyMland Engby Sub-Union asked .Council follow the same, course ?,sJfei;nn'ious years with regard to the use of Cass Square. '' §R4fioulson said that tho Sub-Union |wWj*red' a> letter from the Council bona fides. reported that the pipe- - »Wrtm Kanieri Porks to Lake i*»jwi was being overhauled. m&J.'' Personal. Kathbun, of tho Teloffi>W*l?rchango staff, leaves for WelS.aturdav on transfer, Bell, of the Courthouse * *rVP 8 a farewell on SaturCh i?v» e eve °* his departuro for JwSkT*S " on transfer.-.and presented) 1^4 -fountain pen and Eversharp sfife! H * :Extou aud J - Judd > of tho i«!fe°ffito staff, will leave Greymoutli 'ftSffi * he "*"*' tlie £ormcr for WSI " wJ,ere ho takes'up a new jposi- *" Ittomotion,' and the latter for ireh, where he will join the Department. D. Taylor,* of the Westport » Exchange, was tendered a in the ove of his departure for .promotion. Mr G. H. Davis, Oatmaster," presided and pret -Taylor with an illuminated vatch. Bjcknell, secretary of the Jreek mines, has arrived from

Cliristchureh on a business visit to Reef ton. Mr B. S. Robinson, . Government Apiary Instructor, is paying a. departmental visit to Kumara. Miss Minnie Lilburn has beesj appointed assistant teacher at the Greymouth State School. Mr E. Wade, of Kumara, -will leave Shortly for Auckland, whew he will in future reside. .7 Mr H. H. Allison, rector 'of the Grey»_ mouth State School, has been. "absent from duty owing to iiinei*; . Mr* Gi H. RuSßoll,- Health InspeetOtf for the West Coast, will lfi&ve sftdlrtly for Blenheim on transfer. He will fee succeeded at Greymouth by Mr ,M, Battell, of Blenheijm I -Mr' James Robertson, fermfcrly of! Reef ton, died suddenly it Nelson during 1 the .week. x Sister Lilian M, jtyndman, a flativ# of the West Coast, died suddenly from pleurisy on board the Maknra When i that vessel Was three days 6iit frdm oijjt Francisco. Mrs William Blair died early en Saturday, morning at the Grey Rivet Hospital. She was operated en during tho week for an internal eoirtpteiflt. She was 45 years of ago and Is survived by her husband, two -.daughters aftdoile son. Hall for Barvytown, The Barry town branch of . tho Fanners' Union is taking the prelim* inary steps with view to constructing; a public nail in the district. Sawdust In Streams. Action is being taken by tha fisheries Department against sawwillerg who allow sawdust,to find its way from the ; mills into the HokitSka River. Casualties. « , Walter Towusend, a seaman oh tho auxiliary ketch ElSie, is an inmate of the Wostland Hospital, suffering from injuries to his leg caused by a fall down tho hold; A man named Fischer suffered injuries to a foot through being struck by a rolling stono during blasting operation* 'on the Grcymouth-Westport coastal roads. ' i Golf. ' Two medal matches were;- played yesterday at Omoto, Dennehy U2 (23), 69» and McCarthy 78 (6), 72, returned thb best .cards in the A division and Baker, 108 (36), 72, in tho B division. Warden's Court. Mr W. Meldrum, S.M., sitting as Warden at Ross, on Saturday heard evidence in the claim By Aynsley Adaif Moore "(Mr J. A, Murdoch) against tho Rosa Borough Council (Mr W. J. Joyce) for £IOO for negligent construction and maintenance of i reservoir. The plaintiff stated that during heavy "rain the reservoir burst its banks ana damaged; his dwelling house. The Warden visited the place and : the ease was adjourned for the production of the remainder of-the .evidence.