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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1925, Page 2

Owing to the flooded state ol the creeks in South Westland the motor mail ear was unable lo leave AN aiho this morning for Hokitika. Tenders for the Kunulra-Kapitea road section which close to-morrow forenoon, will he dealt with by the Public Works Committee of the Westland County Council on Tuesday next.

The committee of the ICS.A. meets at the Soldiers’ Hall to-night at 7.T0 o'clock to consider proposals for adding rooms for social purposes to the front of the present building.

It is announced that Superintendent (■ (■ ’Warner, of the Christchurch Eire Brigade, had been elected on-op-posed to the presidency of the l uit-co Tire Brigades’ Association. He «'il take up the position at the annua conference next month at Christ church.

Next Sunday the final section ol automatic signalling, between Moana and Stillwater, will he brought into operation, completing the single line section from ItollcsLon to Stillwater, a distance of 118 miles, excluding the tunnel. This is the longest section o! single line automatic signalling outside America. It is three position daylight eolnriight type with electric interlockings at intervals. The result is considerable economy in the working ol traffic. The installation was designed and installed by the Signals Branch of the Railways Department.

“Wherever we went in England.” Mi- I. Woolf, who returned to Christchurch oil Wednesday from a trip to Great Britain, told a lepoiter, "we found that ‘New Zealand’ was practically an ‘open sesame.’ i saw live ol the'All Blacks 1 matches, including the famous match with Wales, and e\ci%one we came across said that the team w.rthily upheld the reputation of New Zealand’s soldiers. There is no quostion.” Mr Woolf added, “that the Massev t ioveriiiueiit is exceedingly well thought of in business and financial circles in England. In fact, this country is really the curly-headed hoy ol England.”

A statement appeared recently to the effect that a number of calves in Auckland province had been touud effected with paralysis, the presumption apparently being tffial their condition might have been in some way associated with infantile paralysis which is now causing concern in New Zealand. W lieu tin; report first appeared departmental officers in Auckland lmd no knowledge of the matter, but inquiries have been set in train, and it. lias now been ascertained that the report arose as a result ol a conversation regarding some cases which' have occurred among calves on a farm a little distantc south of Auckland. These eases were nut paralysis, hut were eases of blackleg, and the matter had received the attention of departmental officers at the time. All the remaining calves <"> the farm had been inoculated with tile result that no further trouble bad occurred there.

Clergymen as a rule are poorly paid, and are so often credited with a disposition to despise riches that it came as a surprise a day or two ago to the Sydney public when the will of the late Rev. Paul Clipsham, a -Methodist minister at Pymble, one of the mu them suburbs, was published (writes a Sydney correspondent). Dying at the age of 74, he left a tidy little estate of £01.053, the whole of which was personalty, and which was directed to he applied in equal shares for the benefit of his childon. He was a widower. It reads more like the will ol a pastoralist, with a more remunerative flock than that of the average minister of the Church. In fait, simultaneously with the publication of this will, there appeared the will oi the late 1 bourns Crawford, a New South Wales grazier, who at the age ol <5, left only about £4OO more than Mr Clipslmm. Sister Agues l.ochore, a former resident of Hokitika, is once more visiting our town. She has come in the interest of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and is staying at St. Andrews’ .Manse. She will take the Service in the .Methodist Church on Sunday morning, and in the Presbyterian Church in the evening. She intends going on to Ross, and Southward at the beginning of the week. Those who are interested in this mightiest of till auxiliaries of Christian .Missions will ho glad of this opportunity to learn something of the mare recent activities of the Society. One returning to the home town is sure of a hearty welcome from old friends, but one of our own coming as the representative of this world-wide society, may well remind us uf the great world of humanity to which we belong. Perhaps also it may give us a clearer conception of the tremendous influence of the time detying Book, which knows neither sect nor creed, its message from the (Iml and Father of us all. to all the wandering sons of men.

'Wonderful value in unbleached table damask, 54iu. wide, ordinary price Is lid per yd.; 120yds only, now 2s (id yd. at McKay’s Great Sale.—Advt. Schroder’s Stock-taking Sale is one of great attraction. All summer millinery is marked below cost to dear. Beautiful hearth-rugs 7s Oil, 10s Oil. 15s Od each. Ladies frocks 7? Gd, Ss Cd, 9s Od. 12s Oil each. Those, are not the eheap-.Jack common kind. All latest productions.—Advt.

4s lid Sale I 4s lid great one price bargain event seven days only commencing Saturday, February 14th, Hundreds of articles usually 0s lid to SLss. Now one price 4s lid. A quick and busy disposal of all summer goods. We’re going to make our store a beehive of. bargain activity. Follow the thrifty. See our windows. McGruers, Hokitika and Greymouth.—Advt. Sensational offerings in ladies' ready to wear and trimmed millinery. Prices down to 3s lid, 7s lid, Ss lid to clear at McKay’s Great Sale.—Advt.

Radiator Leaky. Then use “ Radorene.” Permanently repairs in a lew minutes and no interference with circulation. Two sizes 3s 9d and 10s 6d. post paid. Rooklet from R. P. M.. Manning and Co., 5 Bedford Row, Christchurch.—Advt.