LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

A dance will lie held in the Supremo Hall to-night in aid of the Footballer-*’ Crockery Fund. Admission Js. AdH. [ 1 1 is notified that the (»rev Jockey I (’lull have altered the dates of their meeting owing to the postponement of | the Hokitika races. They "ill now rnofc , on .Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday j of next week. ! Owing to a big slip between Jacksons and Otira the train that left Hokitika ; at d a.m. had not reached Otira and was ] mu expected to do so till (J p.m. Clo- | ments motor cats from Hokitika icach- . i i Oiira a lion t I o’clock after sur- • ?;-minting >olll** slips and other damage. The battle cruiser Australia lias been placed on tin* reserve list. She was paid off a few days ago, ami has taken up permanent moorings h.dow Garden Island, where she will remain imletinitei ly. The event is of more than ordinary i interest to New Zealand. She was on- | gaged in the New (Guinea operations in 1 IhU, escorting both New Zealand and Australian troops in their Is la ml vxpej diiions. After the battle of the Falk- ! land Islands, the Australia was ordered i Home to join the (Valid Fleet, and from | January. IPIS, till the end of the war 1 sue served in the North Son. She niiss--led the battle of .1 ill land through eol- | iiMon with H.M.S. New Zealand, hut ! was present at the surrender of the (fraud Fleet in November, ISMS. For 1 several months before and alter the armistiee she Hew Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey’s Hag. The crew of 150 have keen signed oil', and *2OO of these men on loan front the Imperial Navy sailed by the Osiorlcy for London. I

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