LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1925, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Fresh fish and oysters arriving tonight, Orders are being for fish for Good Friday at the Commercial •Supper Rooms. Perched precariously on a hill-top, prominent, lint inaccessible, ami when reached too unsafe to enter, appears the little church at Ross i.says the ••Church Xcws"i. The vestry desired to move the Sunday school from the vicinity to a more comfortable situation they laid acquired on the flat. They lately look Archdeacon Julius up the lull lo ni-pcet. and convinced him of (he superior situation of the site on the flat and the imperative need to shift the sel-001. But, with West Coast jugglery, tl'.e vestry also wanted to get sanction for an exchange ol the section they had for another, a better site, which had been olfered them by the man who occupied the land next to the original site. It was held that the church had the best of the bargain, hut it was not clear how the title stands. Now on the Coast there are titles and lilies. The miner’s right tradition still holds, and not every section has a normal title. It is stated, for instance, that a certain important, church, and a newly re-built church at that, in one West Coast town, is built on hind to which the title if chioliy

occupation under miner’s right or sametiling like that. It is a subject

tabu <iu the Coast, and the camno sleep is undisturbed. Apparently in Ross, however, there is a plentitude of land, and the matter of titles is jiot practical politics. At any rate, as the vestrv appeared satisfied, the exchange was consented to, on condition that the transfer could be effected in legal form. There remains a sum ol about (_Rio in the South Westland extension fund, raised some years ago, and the (~useiit of all the other centres having been obtained the vestry were authorised to expend it on additions to tlio Russ Sunday school.