LOCAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 31 August 1948, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS

The second consignment of general goods and motor ’ spirit will be taken by the fishing trawler Nile, from Greymouth to-day for residents of South Westland. To replace one installed eight years ago, a new seismograph was installed at the Kaimata Station on Saturday. The instrument has a paper speed of 30 millimetres per minute, double the rate of the old model. Three cases of poliomyelitis among children were reported from the Hutt Valley, and one from Wellington, at the week-end. The GreymoutH amateur athletic club is supporting Canterbury’s claim to conduct the British Empire Games. The venue of the Games will be decided at a meeting of the New Zealand Olympic and Empire Games Association on Wednesday. The issue is expected to be between Christchurch and Auckland. »Have you seen Jeff’s new bar ? Empire Hotel, Ross. —Advt. More than 1,000,000 board feet of rimu will be loaded on the ‘‘Matthew Flinders” which, is expected in Greymouth next month. The timber is to be shipped direct to Australia.

■ By a margin of one point, Miss Mona Ross, of Dunedin, won the John Court Memorial aria contest at the Auckland Competitions. Arthur Downs was second. The first prize is £lOO. Greymouth experienced a sharp frost yesterday, when the temperature was 30.3 degrees. There was more sunshine in Greymouth on Sunday, 10.4 hours, than any other day since last summer, but the maximum temperature was only 57.6 degrees. Mr C. W: Dunlop, 5.D.0., N.Z., Optician, is now visiting Greymouth and. surrounding districts with his caravan consulting room and will visit intending clients by apoointment C/o. P. 0., Greymouth.—Advt. The contractor engaged in . demolishing the Greymouth Town Hall has made such good progress that he is likely to begin work on the tower to-day. Fronting Mackay Street, this portion of the building will be demolished so that it will collapse into what was the concert chamber. Scores of concrete piles, which supported the concert hall, were removed on Saturday, by a Greymouth family for use as a retaining wall in Leith Crescent. The eight-inch water main serving Cobden was repaired at the weekend, and the supply was restored at about 2 p.m on Sunday. It was cut off at 8 a.m. Owing to a reduction of one third of the coal production at the Strongman mine in the past month, two ships were, idle at Greymouth yesterday. A total of 6,000 tons of coal were taken by four ships last week, and the Kaimai and Kaimiro are expected to begin loading coal to-day. It is stated that the enforcement of the shot-firing regulations in district coal mines has been the cause of reduced production at the Strongman mine. Conversation between two housewives recently overheard in Greymouth: “John said-when things got back to normal he would buy me a washing machine, but I told him I would never go back to doing my own washing, even with a washing machine, as I was more than satisfied with the Westland Laundry. I’d sooner put the money towards something else.” Second housewife: “Yes, they do the clothes up beautifully and it’s a reasonable service, too.. I sent my blankets last week and they are wonderful. So soft and fluffy, no more home washing for me.” Yes, join the hundreds of satisfied housewives who use our laundry service regularly. ’Phone 136. Depot: Sam McAra, ~Mackay Street. —Advt.