LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1917, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Th© monthly meeting of the Westland Land Board was held this afternoon. Our report will appear to-mor row. A weekly dance will be held in the Opora House, commencing to-morrow (Thursday) evening at 8 o’clock sharp. Good orchestral music and excellent floor Admission 1/-. —Advt. One of the last voluntary enlist- 1 meats at Hokitika for the September draft was that of Mr. H. R. Moore on the staff of tho local Post and Telegraph Office. Ho passed the Medical Board examination on Monday and leaves for camp in September. j In the “Gazette” the Secretary to the Treasury acknowledges the receipt of one fifty, throe twenty, and two single Bank of New Zealand notes, also postal note for 2s 6d, make a total of £ll2 2s 6d, forwarded from Auckland to the Commissioner of Taxes by some person unknown, as conßcience-monoy to the New Zealand. Government. The last whalo caught at Kaikoura, says the “Kaikoura Star,” was hot a right whale, but a, humpback. While being killed it damaged two planks of the boat attacking it. Considombte trouble was- experienced as the result of the whale sinking when killed, and 1 it had to be towed some distance on the bottom, and loft moored till th© formation of gases caused it to rise to tho surface.