LOCAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 12 October 1948, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS

The Arbitration Court will begin sittings for about a month in Auckland to-day when fixtures for tne session will be made. Mr Justice Tyndall and the members of the court left Wellington for Auckland last evening.

Tripping over an obstruction near a fireplace at his home in Kotuku yesterday, Mr Martin Cash, a pensioner, sustained cuts about the head when he struck the fireplace. He was attended by Dr Stewart, of Brunner, and later treated as an out-patient at the Grey River Hospital.

On Sunday, two Greymouth anglers fishing from a boat on Lake Brunner landed 21 brown trout of a total weight of 211 b. They were Messrs W. Berry and H. C. Hill, and this is the second occasion on which they have secured limit bags in a fortnight. Mr H. Kear, of Alexander Terrace, Greymouth took the lead in the MilnerBennington Shield competition for the largest trout caught in the Grey district when he landed a fine brown trout weighing 71bs lOozs from the Grey River on Sunday evening.

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

A cargo of 335 tons of cement is at present being unloaded in Greymouth by the Rata, which arrived from Tarakohe on Sunday. During the last month cement supplies have been delayed in reaching Greymouth by heavy seas on the bar, and as a consequence, some building activity has been suspended for several weeks. It is expected that a further shipment of cement will be brought shortly by the Rata from Tarakohe.

After being on order for some considerable time from England a £3600 excavator has arrived in Greymouth for the Borough Council, which will use it for the larger road projects drainage, gas and water schemes in the town. The excavator has been used to level a portion of the southern end of the cemetery at Karoro and is at present being operated m Marsden Road. The machine is being driven by a member of the council’s staff, wlio has been trained for the job.

Some person with a diabodical sense of mischief added caustic soda to the holy water in the stoups at the door of St. Mary of the Angels’ Church, Boulcott Street, Wellington, on Sunday, October 3. Several worshippers were nastily burnt on the foreheac as they blessed themselves. Luckily no one got a drop in the eye, which would have meant blindness. rhe caustic soda was put in the . water about 3.30 p.m. The police are inquiring and would welcome any information.

Do you have trouble getting to sleep these night, as so many people do? But we can help you stop that to.-,sing and turning by providing smooth professionally laundered sheets. There’s nothing so restful and refreshing and besides washing and ironing at home is a back-break-ing job. Let us free you from unnecessary drudgery. Make your ’phone line your clothes line and ring 136. Westland Laundry Ltd. Depot: Sam McAra. —Advt.

A first offender for drunkenness was fined 10s, by Mr E. O. Henry, J.P., in the Greymouth Police Court yesterday.

St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Greymouth, has received a gift of £lOOO from Mrs S. B. White, for the establishment of Ihe “Burnett White Memorial Fund’’. This announcement was made at the service on Sunday night, by the Rev. H. C. Fiebig, of Christchurch, Connexional Secretary for the Methodist Church of New Zealand. The fund will be used for the maintenance of church property.

Twenty-seven sawmill houses —almost all those sought—have been erected, and handed over to .West Coast sawmilling centres. It is expected that six further houses, three at Kumara and three at Camerons, will be ready shortly for occupation. This leaves only five remaining to be built at Stoney Creek, near Kamen.