LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 1 June 1948, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The result of a 15-mile road race held by the Greymouth Cash Cycling Club on Saturday was as follows:— Gordon Armstrong 1, A. .King 2, C. Thomas 3. The fastest time was made by A. King, 39min. 20sec. .The body washed ,up near Cape Dirnappers on Friday last has been identified as that of Mr Allan Alexander Robertson, aged 80, of Hastings. A preliminary inquiry before the collector of customs into the loss of the scow Yectus off Castlepoint last week, was held at Napier yesterday. Charged with carrying on the business of a bookmaker, George Leonard Lindsay, aged 33, wharf labourer, was convicted and fined £5O by Messrs H. G. Hume and A. A. Davis, J’s.P. in ’the Lower Hutt Court yesterday, Have you seen Jeff’s new bar ? Empire Hotel, Ross. —Advt. Heavy seas on the bar and a flood in the river with a seven-knot current interrupted shipping movements here yesterday. The Kaimai, 'which had completed loc/lng coal for Wellington was unable to leave last evening, when the' Holmlea. from New Plymouth, was lying in the roadstead waiting to enter port. Loading operations on the Gabriella were suspended because of the weather. The “Weather Man,” Mr D. S. Binnie, of Karoro, who is also the Greymouth Borough Council’s abattoir manager, has lost his black and tan sheep dog pup which answers the name “Pup,” although his name is really Mac. He has tan patches on his body and two tan “dimnles” above the eyes. Should he be found, Mr Binnie is offering a reward. The ’phone number is 226 K.

To . love, honour, obey and do the washing. No that last line isn’t in the marriage ceremony. But many a bride has found that its part of the iob expected of her. You wash and lug a heavy basket of clothes out. into the yard to dry no matter if the weather is heavy going. Then there is the ironing and he expects to>-come home and find that sweet tempered bride. Don’t take chances, send your washing to the Westland Laundrv and retain that new bride look. ’Phone 136, and make our telephone line your clothes line.— Advt.

Four hundred separate entries from 100 competitors in all parts of New Zealand were received in the Post Office competition for suitable designs for four Royal visit stamps to-be issued next year. The designs will be dealt with as confidential till judged by the panel of judges set up by the Postmaster-General.

The weather yesterday interrupted the Hokitika-Wlellington ail’ service. The plane left Hokitika as usual, but had to return ten minutes after it had taken off. Greymouth passengers returned from Hokitika by car.

Judgment for plaintiffs by default were given in the following civil claims, all by the Commissioner of Taxes, at the Greymouth S.M. Court yesterday: Against Jack F. Phelan, £l7 8s 4d, costs £1 4s; against Noel Francis Brazil, £l4 11s 2d, costs £1 13s; against Willis Case, £6l ’ lr '- lOd, costs £2; against Roy Spark, £5B 12s 6d, costs £2 Is. In a claim by Sarah Jacobs against Bernard O’Neil Thompson, judgment was for £lOO with costs £5 Is. On a judgment summons,- R. Moore was ordered to pay forthwith to W. H. Boucher and Co. £6 Is, together with 15s 6d solicitor’s fee.

The following applications were yesterday granted in the Warden’s Court at Greymouth: Robert A. O’Donnell, five ordinary prospecting licenses, three of 96 acres, one of 100 acres and one of 32 acres, Moonlight Road, Blocks 15 and 16, Waiwhero S.D. and 4 Mawheranui S.D.; Ray Mavis Davy, certificates of protection over special alluvial claim, water race and dam, Maori Gully, for five months from date; Gilbert and Tomasi Sawmills Ltd., license for tramway, two chains, crossing Taramakau Settlement Road, Block 10, Hohonu S.D. Mr T. J. MacKinnon, 'of Toronto, Canada, who has been on a fourmonths’ visit to New Zealand, says clay houses are the solution of the New Zealand need of more housing. He was general manager of a firm building clay houses in Canada until his retirement, shortly before coming to New Zealand. He said New Zealand was a “'natural” for clay houses. They are much cheaper tb,an any other form of house, and a- .country like New Zealand could readily adopt this type of construction. The heavy rains which have been experienced on the West Coast for some days, in Greymouth, continued yesterday, when a further 2.08 incnes fell. The rain abated somewhat last evening, although there were a numbr of showers. A party of Australian scientists will establish a research station at Leigh. North Auckland, to study radiations, audible in radio receivers, from a region in space in the Milky Way. They have been heard on ultra-shortwave radio receivers during the last two years. . Messrs J. G. Bolton and G. J. Stanley, of the Scientific and Industrial Research Council, will leave Sydney for New Zealand by air shortly to continue their work on discovering the source of cosmic radiations. The work of Messrs Bolton and Stanley is the most advanced in the world in this field. They have conducted frequent experiments from Dover Heights, Sydney, during the past 18 months. The radiations appear to emgpate from the constellation Cygnus. They are not radio interference, because they come from outside the atmosphere and from a fixed position in ■ space. “Some scientists think the noises come from a large area in space, but scientists in the radio nhysics laboratory think they come from a very small area, or nossiblv from a single-' star. Australian scientists are probably nearer to determining the exact source of the radiations than any other group in the world.”