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Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1926, Page 2

The ferry connected with the West Coast express at Christchurch this morning. Members of the Hokitika Seniors will meet at S p.m. to-night for practice at till' Kiwi Shed. All members must turn out. —Advt. A general, meeting of the Westland Acclimatisation Society will be held in , ;l week’s time when officers will be elected and a suggestion made to extend the operations of tho Society throughout the district. A Wellington correspondent states that Sir •lames Carroll, who suffered a paralytic stroke on Monday, and was for a time unconscious, had shown considerable improvement on Tuesday, lie is in a private hospital.

The number of motor vehicles registered in New Zealand up to the end of last month was 137.G00. according to figures supplied to the Minister for Internal Affairs (the lion. R. F. Tiollard). The North Island total was 81,098 vehicles (55.993 ears, 12.818 trucks, etc., and 15.887 cycles), as against 52,902 in the South Island (31.909 ears, 5031 trucks, etc., and 12,302 eveles.

The Returned Soldiers’ Euchre Tournament will he continued in the Soldiers’ Hall next Friday. June 25th, at 8 p.m. The following valuable prizes will he offered by special request:—First, 18 piece dinner sot: second, 21-piece tea set; third, set of fancy jugs; fourth half dozen cups and saucers. The four winners each night plnv oil’ at the end of the season tor a ladies’ or gents’ bicycle. Roll up early! Slipper! Admission 2s.—Advt.

Mr H.'ddon M.l*. has received the following letter from the Minister of Public- Works relative to a district matter: ”f have to acknowledge the receipt of your lot tew of the 9th. inst. enclosing one signed by live settlors at Koitorangi regal'd in <4 the roads in their district, especially from the main road along Cropp road and Wall road. In reply, 1 have to inform you that 1 have noted the representations which have been made in reference to the condition of those roads, and shall he pleased to give tho matter my careful consideration.” Addisons have just opened up n new assortment of Ladies’ Ties, ((loves and 1 losiery.—Advt. Gold dredging operations were commenced on Tuesday by the New River Company’s electrically-driven dredge at Dunganville. The dredge is supplied wit h power from ’the Grey Electric Power Board’s station at Dobson. There is an extensive area of auriferous ground at Dunganville, which in the early days of the West Coast, gold diggings was a prosperous mining township, and was formerU known as Maori Creek. For many years Dunganville. like other once prosperous townships, lias dwindled in population, until to-day all that remains of the old township is the name. The returns from tin? electric dredge at Rimu prove that the ofd-iashioned methods of goldmining were quite inadequate. and it is generally lielieved that the auriferous areas of Dunganville and the sites of other old goldmining localities can he worked successfully by the application of modern machinery. It is quite safe to assume that the future of the alluvial goldmining on the West Coast will depend largely on the results from the golddredging activities at Dunganville.

A Wellington correspondent. says the cases of influenza now being dealt: with by the Department- of f'nblic Health are those of an ordinary kind, common to this time of the- year. Cases of a mild type have been occurring for the past six weeks in all parts of the Dominion. Bacteriologists in the four centres have reported that the examination of specimens shows that so t far the germ involved is of the ordinary type, and that the number of pneumonic' and fatal eases occurring up to the present is no greater than in any of the ordinary influenza visitations prior to the great outburst in 1918, but the Department has taken the precaution of warning local authorities and Hospital Boards to be in readiness in case they should have increased work thrown upon them in connection with an influenza outbreak. Fortunately up to the present there has l>cen no need to make special provision. Otherwise the epidemic situation is normal. There is the usual type of diphtheria which always occurs in the late autumn and tho early winter throughout the country, hut nothing more than usual. There is also some scarlet fever, hut nothing of a very serious nature.

“No-Rubbing Laundry Help” wields a magic charm for men. women and children and keeps grocers busy.—Advt.

We have received from the growers with instructiins to sell at lowest market prices, a shipment of Jonathans, Delicious, Orange Pippins, Washingtons and other va’ ieties of apples.— Paterson Michel and Co. Ltd.—Advt.

Schroder and Co offer wise buyers the chance of the season, the newest in Indies’ coats in the most approved style and colours at wholesale cost. Also huge stock of blankets, rugs and quilts bought cheap to he sold at reduced prices. Don’t hesitate till you are too late. Visit- Schroder and Co at once.—Advt. For Influenza Colds take

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.Advt.

Motorists: Easy-starting in cold weather with “ Air-Friction ” Carburettor which saves petrol yet ensures greater power and speed with better pulling on high gear. R. P. M. Manning and Co., 5. Bedford Row, Christchurch.—Advt-

No cold is “Nazol ’’-proof. “Nazol” is good for all the family pleasant, effective inhalant that routs colds. 60 doses Is 6d.—Advt.

The best advertisers of “No-Rubbing Laundry Help are the users.—Advt.

Addisons arc now showing a full ■ange of Ladies’ Woollen Bloomers in iV’s, O.S. and Ex. O’S.

The Timaru Trotting Club tailed to submit to' the Stamp Duties Department in propel' time a statement which would enablelotnlisutor duty, dividend duty- and stakes duty to be levied for its March meeting. The club did not receive the necessary returns from the Railway Department to enable these particulars to bo compiled until Mareli 28. when, owing to the intervention of the Easter holidays and other pressing duties connected with race date alterations. the club secretary inadvertently overlooked payment of the various duties, totalling £1395, oonseqeuntly a penalty of £69 was accrued, which the club, in a petition presented by the Hon F. J. Bolleston, has asked Parliament to remit.

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, at the annual meeting in London of the Roads Improvement Association, said that Mr Churchill seemed to have only one idea of taxation. He was talcing money from the Road Fund and putting super-taxes on motorists. He (Lord Montagu) thought the time was long past when “ that ancient fable that a motor-car was a sign of wealth” had been exploded. Ninety-nine per cent of the motor traffic was essentially democratic. It was a retrograde and lamentable spectacle to see the .Ministry of Transport lending its influence to getting rid of motor .omnibuses in preference to tramwa.v cars. All over tho world the general trend was the other wav. If we pursued our present policy we should make ourselves the laughing stock of the world.

The first criticism of the constitution of the Coates Ministry came on Tuesday from Mr Sullivan (Avon) who followed up a strong advocacy' lor effective protection of New Zealand industry from imported goods made, under low wage conditions with a suggestion that a more suitable Minister should have been appointed to the charge of the Industries and Commerce Department. He had no personal objection to Mr M’Leod. but he did not know that he had any experience of secondary industry, nor Iliad he ever made a speech ill the House indicating that he had any interest in the manufacturing side of the country’s activities. All his speeches dealt with the agricultural and landed interest. He did not condemn Mr M.’Leod for this, but he did not, hope to get from such a Minister an investigation of imported goods made by sweated labour when the Minister’s interests were entirely agricultural.

Save Fifty Per Cent: Special Bonus Offer for this month. Palmolive Soap two for Is (id and one free, six foils (id and three free. 12 for 9s and sis free. Average one gross a day sold from June Ist to sth. Only limited quantity left. Buy half-dozen hits. McGniers, The Leading Drapers. Hokitika and Greymoulh.— Advt.

For Catarrh. Inhale “ Nazol ” or take it on sugar. Clears blocked passages ; heals inflamed membranes; assists breathing. 60 doses “Nazol only Is Gd.—Advt.

What! Away from school to-day.' Give the child “ Nazol ” for that cold or cough. No cold is " Nazol -pioof. Take it on sugar. 60 doses Is Gd.—Advt.