LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 1 June 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to a' delay in the despatch from Sydney of the papers for the theory examinations of Trinity College .of Music, London, the examinations in Greymouth will not take place until Saturday, June 19.

A Gazette notice announces that the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (Pltmket-Society) has been declared an essential undertaking in respect of all registered nurses, but excluding Karitane nurses in training. (

As no announcement concerning the Sunday rail-car service between Greymouth and Westport has been made by the Head Office of the Railways Department, the service operating on a week-to-week basis is still proceeding.

Men! We have seven pairs of size 7 Tan Shoes. A real snip;. 20/-. Post free. —H. Hamer, Kumara. — Advt.

A total of 16,956 tons of goods traffic passed through the Otira Tunnel from the West Coast to Canterbury during thei week ended on Saturday. This compared with 16,572 tons in the same week of 1942 and 16,342 tons during the corresponding period of 1941.

A gradual crescendo through the month of Social Security contributions reached a, climax yesterday, when a double queue, filling the Greymouth Money Order 'Office all day.' made 153 quarterly payments, and paid 642 annual levies, on the last day of the month.

Wliite’s Coats are double life. Don’t miss them; they are .also so smart and cosy. Call early, our experts will see that the fit is just right —this counts so much. —Advt.

The Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) has received the following reply to the message sent to Queen Mary: “My sincerest thanks to you and your wife and to the Government and people of New Zealand for their most kind birthdav message.—Mary R.”—P.A.

At. a meeting of the Timber Industry Manpower Utilisation Committee in' Greymouth on Saturday, it was resolved that certain recommendations from the Grey district are to be made to the Minister of Industrial Manpower relative to the procedure in releasing and transferring men employed in the sawmilling industry on) the Coast.

The following Greymouth candidates were successful in the examination for wiremen conducted in March under the Electrical Wiremen's Registration Act, 1925: Passed in written part: A. W. Adams, A. D. King, and K. C. Wallace. Passed in practical part: T. H. Guy, W. F. T, Lowe, and G. S. Whiting. In the examinations for electrical .servicemen W. Doherty passed in the practical part. All Presbyterian men cordially invited to the usual social evening, St. John’s Hall, to-morrow (Wednesday) at 8 o’clock. —Advt.

In the near future, several parties Ojj American soldiers from the South Pacific war theatre will arrive on the West Coast on furlough. The parties will comprise approximately thirty sodiers each, and it is desired that private billets be found for them. Offers may be lodged with the Mayor (Mr. F. A. Kitchingham) who states that about a week’s notice would be given.

; A car driven by John Ernest Jones, |of Greymouth, came into_ collision with a bicycle, on which two boys, (.Robert Sortgen. 14, of Gladstone, and j Reginald. Skelton, 13, of South Beach, were double banking, on the main south road at Gladstone at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Skelton received a fractur- of a thigh, and the other boy escaped with shock. Both were admitted to the Grey Hospital, and their condition last night, was stated to be satisfactory. Does your wife threaten to go home to mother when the house is in a turmoil on washing-d.ay? What with the standing over steamy tubs, going out in cold winds to hang out the clothes and having to get meals ready is enough to upset any housewife. Well, take advantage of Westland Laundry’s popular services and that married bliss you read about will be yours. ’Phone 136. Depot: 27 Albert St. —Advt. 1 St. Columban’s, High Street, Low|er Hutt, a seminary tor the training of Catholic priests for Far East mission work, was officially opened on May 24, the feast day of Our Lady Heip of Christians, Patroness of Australia and New Zealand. His Grace Archbishop O’Shea celebrated the first Mass in the Oratory, and later the A- chb-shop and a large gathering of the Catholic clergy were the guests of the Rector (the Rev. Father J. McGlynn) and the priests of St. Columban’s, at luncheon. In welcoming the visitors, the Rector expressed his appreciation for the kindness with which he .and the Mission Society he represented has been received in New Zealand by the hierarchy, diocesan clergy, religious and laity. His Grace emphasised his conviction that the opening of St. Columban’s Seminary in New Zealand far from imposing a strain on the supply of New Zealand vocations, would be the source of many blessings. In the afternoon, the Archbishop presided at Benediction, given bv the Rt. Rev. Monsigsor Connolly, who intoned a solemn Te Deum.