WEST COAST NOTES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 5

WEST COAST NOTES.

PERSONAL. .

(SPSCU& TO THB -?]UESS.) GBEYMOUTH, February 20. -* Mr B. H. .Montgomery, ex-president of the New Zealand Master Bakers' and Pastrycooks' Association, who has beon , attending the annual conference at Greyleft on his return to Auckland accompanied by - Mrs Montgf>iq.ery and -their daughter, Mrs JT. T. Lanigan. ' j Mrs G» Crowley (Dunedin), who some resident-at *(^lesten. r is op. a- 'viflit to the Eeefton & Stewart (Dunedin) are' visiting Greymouth. J. Whitehead, of the Bank,of>Newi Beefton, received Eliisabeth. Mary aged 77 ~Bhe"is~suTvived by" four dtlugh-,te?s»■,<Mrs.W.JEobertsonj'-Mrs Adeano,: , i^t^'F^Cooper^rflmd, MrakCoakley) and ?, %ofsoiw; andvtoey, of'Greybrothers (Mr George c iiong, ! o| , . Hei' -husband f v ;!mtMberfson,4secretary' of ' >Wert C4ast branch, in the death of i^Kasa'-v/" preside. , f s to-day, FTea^pMirade^Gny^wascoaV^ place.' He pleaded . for Mr^^^^'^S i 8 *' sec * ; Wt Bowleg Centre: ' t^s)-trtth reference ;to the I &59P0A?d 0| representatives of the ! ' 'six ! dr: seven' ipiake the, trips! lifrorts were being made to arrange tito' >tiDae4M£le so that the. party will leave WfesWOiFt Match 6th] proceed i Tft apd 'Plflfy<s , h?fe ; ? ; ' >, tfie'j conference last week: . in - Wellington between .".representatives of ,Co., t Ltd., the , Blackball' Miners' Union, and l£r T.'O. > i- a letter setting out the- , T?hiteh the company was / to resumie operations' at, Blackball, tentative agreement to ration'-wprk^Kas' been forwarded to of tJie Union. The mining w&»ager ? Mr I '^' G. -Q<4nn, has also adj , vised theTUnj.on; that unless there was »-j substantial \ injproyement in mining ! costs the company would.be fo?ced ,to cease - pperatlowr <•, As the company ob- ' jeot to. tie rope road being .used as a travelling road:for!wet ,time ,men, it is stated tKat 'there is a probability of ■ the_ company's proposals not being ac-t . ceptable to the Union,