LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1920, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The Government offices will bo closed on Tuesday and Wednesday (St. Andrew’s Day and Anniversary of Westland Province).

At the Harbour Board meeting on Saturday, a statement was submitted showing arrears of rates amounting to £3BB. The Chairman stated that the Board were simply a collecting agen for the Government Advances Department, to whom the whole of this money had to be paid, and the Secretary was instructed to issue summonses at once beginning with all amounts over £2, and less amounts a month later.

A London correspondent says:—Sir Joseph Ward has passed through a very unpleasant experience, but as the result of consultation with high medical authorities he now has the satis faction of knowing that he is physically quite sound. Owing to a severe internal trouble recently, he was induced by his own medical adviser, Sir Thomas W. Parkinson, to consult tlie eminent surgeon Sir Douglas Shields, and lie entered the private nursing home in Park lane of which Sir Douglas is the surgeon in-chief. Sir Joseph himself was afraid that he would have to undergo an o per. ation for strangulated hernia, or appendicitis but as the result of very careful examination by means of the X-ray, the temporary trouble was located, and a few days’ treatment sufficed to enable him to leave the home quite restored to health. As the result of a thorough medical examination, Sir Joseph has gained the assurance that he possesses a perfectly clean bill of health.