LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1925, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Special at the Commercial Supper Dooms, Wednesday night, oysters, first of the season. Fried oysters and chips to take home and fresh groper to-night. Tho supper rooms are open for meals at all hours and everything on ‘he menu is cooked and served on up-to-date cafeteria lines. Morning and afternoon teas, with our delicious meat pies. Flense note: Our fish is cleaned in a proper and up-to-date fish house, which is away from the supper rooms. Cleanliness is our motto.—Advt.

The possibilities of a speedy goods service hy rail between Auckland and Wellington were illustrated hy a fast goods train by which the lion. J. G. Coates, Minister of Railways, returned to Wellington during the week-e"' 1 The train left Auckland at 8.30 in the evening, and reached Wellington about 1.30 the next afternoon. The journey would thus he made in about seventeen hours, whereas before the running of limited expresses the ordinary express from Auckland required eighteen hours for the trip. It is understood that this fast goods train is dispatched to Wellington on occasion to clear accumulations of freights. If a regular service were maintained its usefulness for the carriage of perishable goods is obvious.

A Wellington correspondent states: —The original notice regarding the extension of the school closing period owing to infantile paralysis did not make the position clear in respect to the higher forms of secondary schools. Reports have been current that some of these forms, and some classes for senior pupils in technical schools would | H . able to resume on March 2.3, hut this is incorrect. The head office of the Health Department states that the closing of schools until March 31 or a further date if notified beforehand, applies to all primary and secondary schools, and that the higher forms of colleges are to resume. Certain artisan classes at the technical schools in the evening are being allowed to meet, hut these are not full-time classes. The Health Department officials are not able to announce the actual date fur rosumntion, which, when it comes, will probably he general throughout Xew Zealand, and there is quite a possibility that the Faster holidays will also come into the period of closure.