WESTPORT NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 15 February 1927, Page 7

WESTPORT NOTES.

fOur Ow» * T >>rreemond«nt.s WESTPORT, Feb. 14, Mr and Mrs Samuel, of Christchurch, have taken over the Empire Hotel. The Westport, Athletic and Cycling Association are holding a “Go as you please” ball on Friday night next at the Theatre Royal. Dancers will remember that the Jubilee Committee held a “Go as you please” ball at Christmas time, and there was never such a successful ball before. The W.A.C.A. are trying to make this so successful that it will be talked about until the next comes around. This Association has been indefatigable in its efforts to give the public exhibitions of good elean sport, and it is up to the public to assist them to carry on. Sister Conlon, after enjoying her holidays on the East Coast, is back again, and her presence will be welcomed at the District Hospital. Rev. Father Carmine, accompanied by his brother Pat, left for Takaka on Friday in his ear. Air and Airs Petherbridge have returned after attending at their son’s wedding at New Plymouth. Air Rex Boniseh, of the P. and T. Department, is spending his holidays wit.h his parents. Mr R. AV. Morton, representing Colver, Watson and Co., hide and skin merchants, Christchurch, is arranging for the opening of a branch in Westport, with Air Peter Anderson as local agent. In reading some notes by a Denniston correspondent on the formation of a bowling greens. 1 note that at the meeting, after stating the virtues of a game of bowls, it was remarked: “Shortly we shall have conveyances carrying all hands to work, and by so doing, would in the time saved as well as energy, permit one hour longer period for leisure and recreation.” This is indeed gratifying to read about. If the Westport Coal Company has at. last done so much for its employees, it deserves all the credit that can be accorded. A contemporary gives prominence to a speech made by Miss Margaret Kidd at the Town Hall, Grangemouth, England, under lhe auspices of the Grangemouth Women Unionists. The paper does not say women trades unionists. Miss Kidd is made to say many things which might be classed in slang parlance at “Kidd stakes.” Starting out about the ideals of trades unionists, she states that their object was to climb up the ladder and become owners of the industry they worked, by devoting their surplus earnings to that object. The position appears abhorrent to the lady in question that trade unionists should get mixed up in politics and Socialism, i his lady forgot to tell her hearers that the early trades unionists, who according to her account had such lofty ideals, got transported for having them, aucl when she talks of becoming proprietors of the business out of their surplus , earnings, and of the miners in the Old Country wanting coal to be dear, and such tosh, one can only put such rumblings down to Kidd stakes or propaganda for the Employers’ Federation. Maybe this kind of stuff is to be served up at intervals. The passenger list on the “Koniata-” which left on Friday morning was as follows: Messrs Kane, Erskine, Phillips (2), Hastings, Voyce, Prince, Taylor, King, Scott, Mesdames O’Gorman. Phil lips, AlcLean, Pascoe, and two children, Erskinq, Russell, Taylor, King and child, Samuels, Scott, Sutton and child, Galloway, McDonald, Robertson, Misses O’Gorman, Phillips, Bentley, Taggart, Ogg, and Master Sutton.