LOCAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 4 October 1948, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS

Pleading guilty to a charge of having stolen a shoulder of mutton valued at 7s, the property of the Union Steam Ship Company, Patrick Byrne, 52, fireman of the s.s. Holmlea, was fined £5 by. Messrs M. J. Fogarty and J. North, J’s.P., in the Greymouth Police Court on Saturday.

Members of the Greymouth branch of the N.Z. Labour Party are reminded that the monthly meeting of the organisation will be held to-mor? row at the Lyceum Hall. The executive meeting will commence at 7.15 p.m.

Rimu Flat dredge won 218 ounces of gold on September 28 for 221 hours’ work and 48,889 yards of material treated.

The proposal to attempt the salvage of the remainder of the gold in the sunken Niagara has been postponed indefinitely.

Have you seen Jeff’s new bar ? Empire Hotel, Ross. —Advt.

Three new cases of poliomyelitis have been reported in Wellington since noon on Friday.—F.A. ,

While playing for the Greymouth Trinity hockey team against Karamea at Westport on Saturday, Miss G. Pring collided with another player and had to leave the field at halftime. She was attended by Dr Foote, and had to spend the night in Westport. She returned to her home yesterday afternoon.

Weather Report: Further rain we predict a long wet spell, and it is false economy to take chances with your health by doing your washing at home. Dashing from the hot washhouse to the yard to hang out the clothes. The Westland Laundry takes out all the worry from washday. ’Phone 136, Depot Sam MCAra.— Advt.

Augustus Stephen Parsons, car salesman, aged 36, was charged in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Saturday with conspiring with Clifford Leslie Richards, a seaman, aged 27, to defraud a person by means of a valueless cheque in connection with the alleged purchase of a car, valued at £460. Complainant was David Rowlands McLaren. Richards faced a similar charge. The case was remanded, and bail granted.—P.A.

Butchers’ shops on the West CoaSt are to-day remaining closed. The committee of the Master Butchers Association dealing with the prices question meets at 2 o’clock this afternoon.

The monthly meeting of the Greymouth branch of the New Zealand Labour Party will be held in the Lyceum Hall to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at 8 o’clock. Executive meeting, 7.15 o’clock sharp.—Advt.

One hundred British children, five to seventeen years of age, have been selected to come to New Zealand. Applications to have the children are shortly to be received. They will not arrive before February.

A payment of 8s 6d a bushel, f.o.b. for wheat harvested in New Zealand in the 1948-49 season, has been fixed bv the Government. This is an increase of 6d on last season’s price. The increase is intended to compensate wheatgrowers for higher costs of production.. These higher costs include wage increases made last November, purchase of fertiliser at an unsubsidised price, and higher tractor running and maintenance costs.