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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1922, Page 3

LATE LOCALS

Kill l ies close on Monday night, July 21th with Mr G. A. Adamson (SeereMirvol' the Cveling Club) for the eveline road race from the Pioneers’ M< im.ri.d, Hokitika, to Stafford and hack, which takes place next Wednesday a fermion, starling at '-’.JO o’clock. lOntrane ' fee 2s fid. Ailvt.

Thi wes and ineemliari-Is aie busy on Urn'erth beach.. W'rs'i.ort. savs tlm “Times.” Last Saturday Mr A. '•'elite’s hut, which was built oj iron, was burnt to llm ground, which entails a loss of over (J IT. Dr Koote’s hut lias been loo';.m ill*o two or th-eo times, am 1 , t'’e water tan, whieli bad been plac'd for tlie convenience of campers b- the Unrough Council, stolen. It is ti'.'e sometidng was done to bring tlm riis to hook for Hie wanton, willul d"sl ruction of property and theft.

T'.o Westport “Times” says:—The I oital authorities in Westport are evident lv going in for economy. « At the rerptesT of the matron it was dc- • Mod to purchase a tea urn. A' ,s torson explained at tie meeting that tea wits made at all hours oi the day and I,v that means a lot ef tea was wasted ft was proposed to make tea tv.. ~U hands af meal hours and then use what was left in the urn between times It is doubtful if there will ’■ ~ great demand for tea between meal hours. The Postmaster-General Void tlie House of Represent a lives on W ednes,iav nodit that he hoped presently to he' able to make slight reductions >" CC tain of ti:e postal charges. he os and Telegraph Departments bad exceeded the expenditure last I,v tHtill.fldd. and he iinlieipated Lha some concessions would lie ix.ssil.lo Ttm Dunedin “Star” 'intimates that, reduetion of letter postage Irom -d to l.i.d will tie made at the end ot

“There s only one way of entering the New Zealand postal service,” declared Mr A. P. Harper, of Wellington. during an nildressHn Auckland on Friday, states the “New Zealand Herald”. “and that way is by joining tis it messenger hoy.” This rule "as interpreted by the speaker as another argument in favour of overhauling the whole of the Public Service. “The future heads of the Department,” lie said, “will lie men who entered as boys whose education practically finished at lotiileen years of age. Tliis is a position that should not he allowed to continue.’

■Recently Mr Govan, of Te Allan. ' forwarded to the Marine Department two specimens of fish which were caught ’ in the Upttkuroro river. These fish j have been examined by Air Ayson, Chief rnspeetor of Fisheries, who has ! reported to the Minister of Marine that they ai’e a pair of Atlantic salmon. The large one is a male fish, two feet six inches in length, with fully developed nilt glands, while the otlici is a spent female, two feet one inch in length, which had recently sited her eggs. Mr Ayson has expressed the lielief that' this is the first time on record that Atlantic salmon has been taken on the spawning beds in New Zealand. .He hopes next year to he able to collect ova for distribution to other centres. He says that the fact that two Atlantic salmon have been caught indicates that success has attended the Department’s efforts to acclimatise this valuable food and sporting fish.