LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 2 June 1943, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Miss America meeting held at Herb Moore’s last evening was presided over b\j Mr. A. Hill. There was a> very large attendance -and activities for the month were discussed. In order to close the gap in the main outfall sewer across Erua Moana, plant is being .assembled and piles made ready, the ‘Borough Engineer (Mr A. J. Fairmaid) said yesterday. He added that it was .hoped that the job would be finished within three months.

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

On Mondav evening an exceptionally large muster of Home Guardsmen from all units in the Greymouth district saw a Special talkie film, produced in England under Army ; auspices, demonstrating the use of f modern mechanised weapons. This •screening was the first of its kind on l the Coast.

White’s Coats are a staunch friend for the Winter; always smart and cosy, easily priced too. Call and see them; they are in a high class all their own.—Advt.

The number of births in Greymouth for Mav w.as 22, a decrease of 11 on the figure for the same month last year. The other statistics with the corresponding figures for May last year in parenthesis are as follows:— Deaths 14 (17). marriage notices issued 7 (4),. marriages by Registrar 3 (0).

Two deaths from tuberculosis and one from pneumonic influenza were reported in the Canterbury Health district last week. On the West Coast there was one death from diphtheria. Other infectious diseases notified up to noon on Monday were: Scarlet fever 1, tuberculosis 8, puerperal sepsis 1, hydatids 1, infantile paralysis 1, cerebro-spinal meningitis

Last, week 199 towns, ten more than in the preceding week, attained or exceeded their national war savings quotas. All the main centres out of the eighteen postal districts were again successful and sixteen raised their full district quotas. The number of '.successful .towins is steadily increasing, the figures for the last three week s being 180, 189 and 199.

It is understood that the National Service Department in Greymouth is concerned with the failure of employees to obtain consent of the manpower office before taking on new employees in non-essential work. Advice has been received from the head office that a firmer attitude must oe taken, and that authority to prosecute should be sought when cases indicating breaches of the regulations are brought to the notice of tile Manpower Officer.

Greymouth this year, up to June 1 1943 has had 6.72 inches less rainfall than up to June 1, 1942. The total to date is 41.15 inches, compared with 47.87 last year. May was a very dry month, compared with May of last year, only 5.16 inches having fallen against. 13.45 the previous May. Rain fell oh 13 days lust month, the heaviest fall (1.28 inches) being on the 9th. In Mav 1942, rain fell on 17 days, the heaviest fall being 2.70 inches on the 4th.

Does your wife threaten to go home to mother when the house is in a turmoil on washing-day? 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.

During a discussion in the Auckland Supreme Court of the record of a man who was being sentenced for fraud it became apparent that the particulars concerning him supplied to Mr Justice Callan were not accurate. The man was credited with having received 18 months’ reformative detention and having been convicted under an alias for robbery with violence at Dunedin, whereas it appeared from other sources that he had been convicted under his own name and had received 18 month’s hard labour. “It is very careless,” said His Honour, “because, amongst other things, it attributes to the man the use of an alias. I do not think that kind of thing should happen.”. He said these particulars came to him with the probation officer’s report, and both he and the probation officer took them as gospel. He asked Mr Cleal. who represented the Crown, to point out to whoever was responsible that Judges regarded the sentencing of prisoners as one of the most onerous, responsible, and difficult tasks. He had always assumed that he could accept this kind of official record, done with great care, as absolutely correct, ly.it if this kind of thing could happen he would begin to lose faith in all official records. Mr Cleal said he would bring the matter to the notice of those concerned.

Strange to say, the poorest land will often yield the finest tobacco, and the splendid leaf grown in the Dominion on land incapable of growing anything else is a case in point, as many a hard-working settler has discovered to his .advantage. Of course, with a tobacco crop careful cultivation is all-important, but in the case of our very finest N.Z. tobacco. the finishing work is supplied by toasting, which remarkably ingenious process (the manufacturers’ own) not only cleans: up excess of nicotine, but gives this beautiful tobacco its renowned flavour and famous bouquet. A pipe or cigarette of the real toasted, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Pocket Edition, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, is a positive luxury in which the smoker may revel without fear of consequences. Innumerable brands of tobacco contain too much nicotine to be safe, flffiere’s so little nicotine in “toasted” that it hardly counts! But ’ware imitations! The offer of something “just as good” should be promptly declined. There’s nothing “just as good” as toasted.—Advt.