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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1921, Page 2

The entries for Monday’s fat stock sales at Arahura appear in this issue.

Tlio Maori’s mails connected with the West Coast express at Christchurch and will arrive here this evening.

ana* Until further notice all full rate and deferred cable messages for the United Kingdom are to be forwarded via Pacific owing to interruption of the Eastern route.

As the Overseas Club lias to vacate its rooms in Hamilton St. immediately, the premises will close finally tonight. The ladies committee of the club have invited club members and members of the .Returned Soldiers’ Association to supper at the rooms at 9 o’clock this evening. The furniture and effects of the Club will he sol'd by public auction at the Club rooms next Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o’clock.

The electric light connection was made yesterday with a number of business places in llevoll Street, and the appearance of the various premises were considerably (u’anced last evening, the main street ic.ruig a very much brighter appearai. .’ than usual. Tonight Re veil Street should wear a much brighter appearance than of late, with all the shops lit up with their new installatipns.

Work on the Otira tunnel is proceeding steadily, said the Minister of Public Works at Wellington early in the week, and there is no reason to anticipate that the completion of the undertaking will lie delayed. The biggest task remaining is the electrification of the tunnel and the installation of the generating plant, and it appears that this part of the work is going to absorb a great deal of monev.

The dates of New Zealand wool sales for Julv-August are not yet definitely fixed, but the following provisional timetable has been drawn upWellington, July 4; Napier, July 8; Auckland, July 12; Wanganui, July 14; Christchurch, July 20; Dunedin, July 25; Invercargill July 29 ; Timaru, August 2 ; Wellington, August-8. Probably a combined catalogue of 10,000 bales will be offered at next Wellington sales. The estimated average daily consumption of water in the borough of Palmerston North is 70 gallons per head. During the summer months the daily consumption rose to the alarming figure of 120 gallons. The borough engineer says that 70 gallons per head is the average consumption for colonial communities, but in the United Kingdom is a little less—about 50 gallons per head. In Germany many of the towns and cities consume only 30 gallons per head.

The Blue Star liner Royal Star, which is going to the English Channel for orders, left Wellington on Thursday afternoon last with, it is understood, the largest cargo of meat that has ever left New Zealand. She carried approximately 1(55,000 freight carcases, and with her departure New Zealand was practically cleared of the last of the Imperial Government beef. The loading of this vessel was done fairly expeditiously, as she cleared for Home exactly one calendar month from the date of arriving at her first port, viz., Lyttelton.

The welcome, slump in price has come at last. So while it lasts you will always lind our price the lowest. Thou sands of pounds worth arc being sacrificed by us, to make room for thousands more baigains already secured from the worlds markets. Visit Schroder and Co. It will pay you. —Advt.