LOCAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 10 August 1948, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS

During the month of July the Rehabilitation Department in Greymouth approved of six housing loans totalling £2820, loans for tarming £7970, business loans £3300, furniture loans £631, tools trade £126, and miscellaneous £65. During the fortnight ended July 7, 1311 meat coupons and five butter coupons were contributed by residents of Greymouth to the food for Britain campaign. Football has a disturbing effect on some people, and it certainly upset a service car driver on Saturday. The driver of the Nelson-Westport car, beat his own time to Inangahua in order to get to Westport tor the big football. He was in such a hurry that he omitted to unload a perambulator tor a passenger to Gerymouth and was off before the loss was discovered. Prior to this, however, the driver had passed out a suitcase to a passenger at Sullivan’s bridge but it belonged to another passenger for Greymouth. The latter was not aware of the accidental switch of luggage until she alighted at Inangahua, and some quick work on the telephone rectified the error. The suitcases were returned to their respective owners last night.

The condition of the 19-year-old motor-cyclist, John Gardner, of Sturge "Street, Cobden who was admitted to the Grey Hospital during the week-end was last evening reported to be fairly satisfactory. He was discovered lying unconscious with head injuries on the roadway on Mawhera Quay near the Waite Street intersection at about 11 p.m. on Saturday. With 566 returning members of the J Force on board the. Australian troopship, “Duntroon,” will arrive at Auckland early this morning from Japan. An official party will board the ship in the stream at 7.30 a.m., and the disembarkation of the troops will be carried out between 11 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. The soldiers will leave the ship in five main groups to proceed to their homes on leave. Have you seen Jeff’s new bar ? Empire Hotel, Ross. —Advt. An extraordinary general meeting held yesterday of the Nelson Tobacco Coy. Ltd., decided that the company be wound up voluntarily. A bank holds a debenture over the company’s assets. The bank has appointed a receiver. At a meeting of the creditors yesterday afternoon, they decided to appoint a liquidator. —Press Assn.

The formation of Sinnott Road, north-east from Marsden Road, for a distance of four or five chains, which was started recently, had to be abandoned because of wet weather. A bulldozer which was engaged became bogged, and had to be withdrawn. The borough engineer, Mr A. J. Fairmaid, said yesterday that operations would be resumed as soon as the road would hold the bulldozer. In the early hours of Monday morning a vehicle is believed to have collided with the hand railing on the approach to the Shakespeare Street bridge in William Street. The rail was ripped off for some distance, but the vehicle apparently suffered no damage. The Borough Council is to effect repairs as soon as possible. Since Friday, three inmates of the Seaview Menial Hospital, Hokitika, have been at large. One is the man who escaped the previous week, and dived through the window of a house. Two other men escaped about 4.3<> a.m., and although chased by warders, managed to get away. None of the men js considered dangerous. Protection !■ We actually protect your clothes ! It’s been proved that scientific laundering with modern washing and ironing machines, causes less wear and tear than rubbing on the old-fashione i scrub board. All washing is carefully inspected at every stage and you can send anything at all to us with perfect confidence. Only the finest washing soap is used and the clothes are hygienically washed and sterilised in seven separate waters. All water passes through a Zeolite water softener, which removes all hardness and impurities from the water. The Westland Laundry Ltd., ’Phone 136. Depot: Sam McAra— Advt. The increase in the price of timber granted to sawmillers by the decision of the Price Tribunal would make little difference to the already high cost of building, according to Mr S. G. Shearer, president of the New Zealand Master Builders’ Federation. Yesterday at Wellington he said builders would await with particular interest the new price lists for millers and merchants which the tribunal had announced it would issue. These lists were expected to remove anomalies and have the effect of making more readily available those sizes of timber most heavily in demand.

The Aurora Australis display on Sunday evening was observed over the greater part of New Zealand, including Auckland and Wellington areas. At Wellington it was brilliant between 9 and 9.30 p.m. Yesterday Mr J. L. Thomson, Director of Carter Observatory, said that though sunspot activity has not been excessive of late, one group of spots was on Thursday erupting rather violently. He attributed the display to that. Last week he was advised from Auckland University College that radio noise emanating from the sun had been heard. There appeared to have been no serious interruption in radio or telephonic communication according to Post and Telegraph Department officers yesterday. William Hainey Hillhouse, aged 18, of Runanga. appeareu before Messrs M. J. Eogarty and E. O. Henry, J’sP., in the Greymouth Police Court yesterday, charged with having converted two motor cycles. It was alleged that he converted a motor-cycle valued at 1180, the property ot Owen Cedric Summerton, on August 7. and on the same day, a motor-cycle valued at 1175. the property of James George Allerson. The youth was arrested near Kaiata by inspector D. Tolchard. at midnight on Saturday while riding a motor-cycle from Greymouth. Hillhouse, for whom Mr W. D. Taylor appeared, was remanded until next Monday, bail of £5O and one surety ol £25 being allowed. He is to report daily to the police. The “Pamir” now in the Tasman Sea, less than 1000 miles from Auckland, may reach that, port in a fortnight. Yesterday she was 270 miles east of the nearest point in Australia, and she has been meeting light winds and calms. New washers have been recently installed in more than seven hundred Greymouth taps from which water had been escaping. Borough workmen are at present renewing washers in the taps at Cobden. Householders are reminded that the repair of leaking taps is a free service, and any such defects should be reported immediately to the Council. The repair of the taps is expected to save hundreds of gallons of water that was being wasted through leaking taps. Passengers were picked up and set down on Greymouth aerodrome yesterday for the first time since last October. This follows the cancellation of the license permitting the use of the Hokitika aerodrome by Dominie passenger aircraft. One passenger was taken from Greymouth and another from Hokitika. The Nelson and North Island passengers were transferred at Westport, and the Fox Moth returned to Greymputh with one passenger, and then, flew on to Hokitika.

The tramp steamer “Yunnan” with 463 tons of live British ammunition from Kure, Japan, for the Army Department, and 1000 tons of Japanese oak, is being diverted from Auckland to Lyttelton for unloading, owing to the hold-up at the northern port. She will, after unloading the ammunition, go to Wellington and Auckland, as 700 tons of the Japanese oak is for Auckland. The biggest weight of crayfish yet landed in Greymouth—more than two Lons—arrived by Mr R. Wilson’s fishing trawler. “Coaster,” yesterday. The Coaster had visited South Westland delivering goods for residents of Jackson’s Bay. Completing this mis, sion, the owner, Mr Wilson, dredged the sea bed off Jackson’s Bay using the usual fishing trawls with unexpectedly good results. The nets also brought up a large number of sole. cod. groper and other fish, which appeared to he in abundance in the Jackson’s Bay vicinity. It may be anticipated that fishing in that locality will now be given an impetus.