LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1925, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The Hokitika School Committee meets to-night at 7 o’clock.

Newman’s Motors Ltd. cars will leave for Harihari races to-morrow morning at 8.30 o’clock. Special fares. Look seats early. The open season lor taking deei in the Westland Acclimatisation Society’s 'district, commences on Monday next, and extends to the 30th. April. Under the regulations now gazetted, the fee for licenses for each person is £5 in the South AVcstlaud district (where four -stags may he taken) and £2 per person in the Kokatalii and Arahura districts. Licenses may he obtained from the Postmaster, Hokitika. There is a limit of eighteen licenses for South Westland and already seventeen are applied tor. Ihe usual conditions are enacted in the regulations. Under arrangement with the Government, the Westland Acclimatisation Society is to spend all ievenue derived from license fees in South Westland in culling, and arrangements have Ik'ch made with Air C. Hodgkinson. of Ha wen. Flat to carry out the culling. The Government will give a bonus of 2s per head to the Society for deer so killed, and this amount also will be expended in culling so that over 691) head of deer are likely to he accounted for ill the Southern locality this season.