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Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1923, Page 2

Tenders are invited in this issue for the purchase of ft 25 h.p. 901 h pressure semi-portable loco type boiler and engine.

A meeting will he held in the Town Hall, Rimu, on Wednesday next, 7th inst, at 8 p.m. to arrange for a sports gathering during Easter week.—Advt.

A meeting of ladies willing to assist in carrving out the arnngements for the Bowling Club gala will be held in the pavilion at 7 o’clock sharp to-mor-row (Tuesday) evening.

Entries for the A. and P. Show have been extended and will now he remved li\ the Secretary (Air .1. Jarman) up to Friday next at 5 p.m. at his office. Hamilton St. upstair-.

All G. K. Larsen, of Larsen and. Co., plumbers is in town making further arrangements for the carrying on of 1 heir newlv installed business in Re veil Street.

The annual meeting of the Excelsior euior Foothall Club will he held in Ki ller's Sample Rooms on Wednesday evening next at 7.30 o’clock. All members and intending members arc requested to attend. —Advt.

Advice has been received that Ah W. Jenkins, President of the New Zealand Industrial Corporation, will visit Hokitika for the coining week-end in conjunction with Air AVoodrnffe to discuss exhibition matters with the local people. While here Air Jenkins would like to meet local manufacturers with a view to linking up with the Industrial Association of Canterbury and a meeting is to he arranged to that end.

The* ladies of Hokitika are reminded of the meeting at the Town Hall at 3.30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon with regard to organising a bazaar for June next in aid of the Hokitika Beautifying Society. The Society has a good deal of work ahead of it this year and is anxious to have an assured finance. Tlic work hitherto done is generally approved, and no doubt there will lie read'" support- by the ladies of the town and district to the forthcomcoining proposal.

At the Town Hall on Thursday alteruoou and evening there will he a (lower show in aid of the Hums Memorial Fund. There promises to tie a very bright array of cut blooms. Air A. B. Boyd. who is organising the benefit will alone display over thirty varieties of flowers, while many other exhibitors are taking part. There will he a promenade concert at night, and a ladies committee is providing a jumble stall (mainly of home, dainties) as also a refreshment stall.

Fines were at Heefton imposed on three persons under the Legislature Act. Ethel Nancarrow was charged by A. K. Reynolds (Registrar) that she did make a false statement, in a claim for enrolment under the Legislature Act, 1908. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay 7s Court, costs and £1 Is witnesses’ expenses. AY. Purton, for making a false statement in a claim for enrolment, was convicted and ordered to pay Court costs 7s. and £1 Is witnesses’ expenses. Bessie AYilliams, in that she did sign the name of J. AA’il-fia-ms to n claim for enrolment, was convicted and ordered to pay 7s Court costs and witnesses’ expenses £1 Is.

The usual notices regarding deer shooting appear in last week's “Gazette.” In addition there are published regulations for the destruction of deer by persons appointed by aeelamatisation societies in districts where the society deems it necessary to have the doer thinned out. These districts are Ashburton. Otago, and Hawke’s Bay. Tit the llotoiti red deer district, the power to destroy is vested in the general manager of Tourists and Health Resorts. There is to he an open season for wapiti and moose shooting in the Fiordland national park. The seasons extend from Afareh 24th to Alav 31st. each day inclusive. Only wapiti stags and hull moose may he killed. The license fee for wapiti is £lO. Only two licenses will he issued, and no licensee shall kill morn than two wapiti stags. If more than two people apply for license, provision is made for a ballot. The license fee for moose is C3O. Only two licenses are to he issued, and each licensee is entitled to kill only one hull moose. If there are more than two apnlicants the licenses shall he fixed by ballot.

Air F. J. Board, exprinter of ihe “lb-css.” who is retiring alter a

lengthy service, having join;' d the “Dress” in 1878, was furowclled on Friday, by a large gathering representative el all denartments. Air E. T. Gotirlay, father of the chapel, presented Air Board, on behalf of the combined staffs, with a silver-mounted, solid leather suitcase, a shaving outfit, a gold-mount-ed cigarette holder. Reference to the cordial relations which had existed between Mr Board and the editorial stall' were made by .Messrs Af. G. Keane, editor of the “Dress. ’ and A. 11. Bri*icd. editor of the “A\ eekly Press. ’ Air Board entered the service of the “Christchurch Dress” Company in 1878. Among the speakers was another old West Coaster. Afr H. Kent, who said that bis working relations with Air Board bad ox funded over more than 5!l years. Mr Board having started as a jun'or to him at tin* ‘AA’est Coast Times” in Hokitika. Air Kent had joined the “Press” office about 46 years ago. and Afr Board had followed him from the A\ cst Coast a tew months later. Air Kent went on to say mat during the whole of the time he had been in the employ of tie Dress Company. there bad been but throe printers'. which spoke volumes for tho nianin which the company treated its employees. Afr Board had always been a ,moll friend, a good printer, a fair man to his men, and a valuable man to the company.

The finest Fluid Magnesia is SHARLAND’S. Afore freshly made than imported kinds. Guaranteed highest strength and purest quality. Larger bottle—lower price. In another column Alessrs Paterson and Lloyd announce a "mark down” sale from .Monday, February 26th to March 10th. Owing to the fact- that new consignments are coming to hand Alessrs Paterson and Lloyd find it necessary to reduce their stocks to make rom for these new goods and accordingly they have reduced all their present lines to bedrock prices with a view to making a. speedv clearance of their shelves. This is an excellent opportunity for thriftv buyers to procure all their clothing requirements at remarkably reasonable prices, and wise people will make a point of calling early oefore the best of the bargains disappear. —Advt.

Trv “TAN-OL,” the liquid polish. Gives fine surface to floors and furniture—smartens leather goods. Easy and economical.

A notice by tho Deputy Official Assignee in bankruptcy appears in tliis issue.

The monthly meeting of the Westland Chamber of Commerce takes place at the County Chambers at 7.30 o’clock to-morrow evening.

Orr Bros, char-a-banc will leave the Pioneer Memorial on Wednesday at 1 p.m. for Kokatnhi Fair. Tho Bus will leave Hokitika for Kokatahi dance at 7 p.in.—Advt. The Kokatahi Fair on Wednesday at the Public Hall is going to be a big affair. The residents of the Valley have the happy knack of making a success of this sort of function. Judging by tho reports of donations of goods and kind tho Public Hall will hardly be large enough to hold the display. There will bo a. great display and it will be well worth a visit. .Many townspeople have already arranged to visit Kokatahi for the afternoon, and the run out into the country should prove an enjoyable one. In the evtming the proceedings will ho wound up with a ball.

At last meeting of Kumarn Borough Council, tile Westland Hospital Board wrote asking the consent of the C.uincil to the Board borrowing the sum of £7OOO bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent for 21 years to complete the building scheme of the Westland Hospital, in which is included the requisite sum for an Old People’s Home at Hokitika. The Council decided it was against the proposal, and instead suggested that the Westland and the Grey Boards be asked to meet in conlerence to see if arrangements could not lie cume to whereby the old people of the Westland and Grey district could bo accommodated in tho present Home at Kuinnra. Just landed a consignment of 200 cases choice dessert and cooking apples consisting of Cox’s oranges, Pippins, Scarlet Pcarmains, WolseyV etc etc. Also 100 J cases tomatoes.—-Paterson, Michel and C’o., Ltd. (Phone No. 2.) Advt.

I Be prepared for Hay Fever and summer colds. Keep a bottle of “N.YZOL” handy. A dose in timo saves nine. 1b lid for (if 1 doses

We are having a busy time meeting all demands lor “NO-RUBBING Laundry Help, the famous a Polisher of washboard slavery.

Now that the hot season is on you cull replenish your clothing with light summer garments and hats at much reduced price for cash, at Schroder and Co’s great summer sale now proceeding.—Advt. “NAZOL” knows no rivals -Ilie only safe, certain remedy J'or colds and ilay Fever, lid doses nr Is (id.