HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 24 March 1948, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

(Our Own. Correspondent)

HOKITIKA, March 23. In the Magistrate’s Court at Hokitika yesterday, Mr A. A. McLachlan, S.M., gave judgment for the Hokitika Borough Council _ against the following defendants, in respect of unpaid rates: John Jerome Breeze, £32 14s 7d and £72 14s 6d; Ellen Cody (as administratrix of the estate of the late Mary Cody) £32 Ids 7d; Oswald Robert Every Borton, £4o 6s 3d; John. Shannon, £3l 13s 8d; Albert Cooper.' £l4 17s 7d; Henry C'reutzveldt, £7 2s 9d; Patrick Hendrich, £l5 0s Id; Charles Keast, £l5 15s; Arthur Meharry, £7 2s 9d; James Pamment, £lO Gs; Ellen Store, £l4 7s 7d. The appointment of a permanent, nurse at Hokitika will be discussed at a meeting of the Hokitika sub-branch of the Flunket. Society to-morrow evening. At last week’s meeting of the executive, letters were received from both the Creymoilth branch, and the council, urging the Hokitika branch to maintain a permanent sister and to raise the necessary funds for a car. At present a nurse visits twice a week from Greymouth,, but this is likely to be discontinued within the next month or two, and unless some concerted effort, is made,‘it rs stated, Hokitika and the surrounding districts will be without the services of a Plunket sister. -