WAIUTA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 5 June 1943, Page 6

WAIUTA NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.) Private R. Beard, . who has been spending sick leave here has returned to camp. , Mr and Mrs E. Wallenberg, who have been spending a holiday here have returned to Christchurch. Aircraftsman Pat Cowie, R.N.Z.A.F. spent the week-end in the township. At the Sydney Royal Show, the world's 14 in. championship underhand chop was won by “Snowey” Richardson, >a Wesjt Coast native, and a nephew of Mrs Ted Mitchell of Blackwater. His father was among the top-notchers of the West Coast in the days of Charlie O’Rourke, Featherston, Artie Beban and other well-known weilders of the axe. I General regret was felt here at the death at Greymouth on Wednesday, of Mr Thomas Jobling, a former, well-known and highly respected resident of Waiuta. A native of England, 75 years of age, the late Mr Jobling, after following mining for a considerable time in Africa, came about twenty years ago to Waiuta, where he was employed at the Blackwater Mines foi’ a considerable period, until failing health caused his retirement some few years ago. He saw service in the 1914-18 war, and had travelled extensively, possessing a good knowledge of world affairs. He leaves two daughters, one in England, and the other, Mrs H. Courtney. Waiuta. Two sons, one Private D. J'obling, Senr., and the other, Tom, is serving in the British Army. To the bereaved is extended the sincere sympahty of the community. Mrs C. Waters, who has been an inmate of the Reefton Hospital for some weeks, has returned home. Mrs R. Morrisey has been spending a holiday in Greymouth. The annual balance-sheet of the Colonial Sugar Refining Coy., makes interesting reading. The profits for the year only amount to a little over a million, while a final dividend of seventeen shillings, has been distributed to the struggling shareholders. Meanwhile, Mr and Mrs Muggins pay top price for sugar. However, there are no combines in the British Empire !