LATF LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1922, Page 3

LATF LOCALS.

it. was resolved at the Cycling meeting on .Monday evening that the committee and ridiers form a working bee commencing to-night, to clean up the racing track on Cass Square.

Messrs M. Houston and Co. notify an important sale of furniture and effects on Friday next at 2.3(1 p.m. on behalf of .Mr J. B. Ward on th c , premises Gibson Quay. Fuller particulars appear in another column. A first-class piano is included. We understand Mr A. Lawn is convening a meeting for Friday noglit of all interested in the re-opening of the municipal swimming baths, to arrange for the raising of tlw? citizens’ quota to .supplement the Borough Council grant to enable the repairs to lit' carried out as soon as possible. The marble for tho cenotaph for the Westland War Memorial reached Sydney from Italy recently, and has now been shipped to New Zealand. It is expected to arrive here next week. There are some thirteen cartes of prepared material, and Mr W. A. Thompson will begin the work ol erection at once. It is proposed, if possible, to have the Memorial ready for niivailing on Anzac Day, when a. special dercinony will he arranged for the occasion.

At a meeting of the newly iormed Athletic and Cycling Club held on Monday evening Mr George presided. It was decided to hold a two-mile bicycle race on Cass Square for hoys under 18 years of age at 6.45 p.m. on Wednesday, March Ist. The prizes are first, gold medal, value £2 2s, presented by Mr S. Bassett, second prize, trophy, valued at £1 : Is, and third prize trophy valued at 10s (id. Entries close on 2ith Fob. with the Secretary, Mr G. Adamson.

The doctrine of fatalism v.ilT surely ) henceforth have some very close followers in Wakatipu in view of the following occurrence (says the Wakatipu Mail:—An aged Celestial, whose weight of years made him hard of hearing and defiieient of sight, recently set out to visit his “cousin” at Kawarau Falls Station. This necessitated liis crossing j the lake above the falls in a small boat —the only means available for nianv years past. 110 followed the usual procedure of “hollering” for liis transport, but failing, through the personal disabilities mentioned to recognise the re-, spouse being made to his call lie essayed the task of crossing himself in another small boat which he espied on .liis side of the stream. The lake was high. +’•« current strong and the Celestial’s boat experience small, so that before many seconds had elapsed he was being quickly called upon hv an c.xorable fate to perform the feat of “shooting tho rapids.” One! two! three! over the rapids went the. boat and its passenger from the Flowery Land as neatly as any native with years of practice, would have done it in his canoe. The swirling current then caught the boat and whirled it to the protection of some low growth well out of danger, whero the CJelestial cousin came to liis assistance, and all was well. 1 Him nelly fast liver; nearly killee me,” was his f first ejaculation to which liis unnerved cousin replied in lurid language: “H‘m, you welly — — fool.” Ninety-nine times out' of a hundred shooting the Kawarau Rapids would ha vie sent any [ seeker after .such nolorietv to a watery grave