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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1926, Page 2

Lambs are now showing freely in the Kokatnhi Valley the past week or two having been very favourable.

The monthly meeting of the Westland Progress League takes place at tho County Chambers to-night aL 7.30 o’clock. Golden Treasure Art Union Tickets 2s fid each or nine for £l. £-1000 prizes. P.O. Pox 1.71, Greymouth.— Advt.

The wot summer has left the Kokatahi Valley very hare. There being an absence of wimer feed in many places, and the slock is going to have a hard time until the new grass comes

Your goal should he the first prize in. the popular Golden Treasure Improved Double Butt Art Union. (Jet. your half-crown ticket to-day or butte still a hook of nine for £l. £-1000 prizes. On sale everywhere. -Advt.

The death of slr l’anl Eivoburv took place at bis residence Christchurch on Wednesday last in bis 88th year. Deceased v’.is tlio father of Messrs William and Raul Freelmi'v, bath former well-known residents of Hokitika.

Tlio Wellington Band Contest Committee has taken a bold step in recommending the North Island Association to appoint 5L- William Halliwell, one of the foremost adjudicators and band trainers in England, as chief adjudicator of the Contest. sfr Halliwell had intimated his willingness to accept the office. Despite tho expense involved, the committee feci that the association will agree.

Another try and you might score a win in the popular Golden Treasure Improved Double Butt Art Union. Tickets for 2s fid or books of nine for £l. £4OOO prizes. Selling like hot cakes everywhere.—Advt.

The death took place early on Sunday. morning of sfrs Clements, wife of Mr AVm. Clements, of Beach Street, after a very brief illness, deceased having a heart seizure the night before. Deceased was a, native of Christ church and 47 years of age, and lmd been a- resident for a few years. Besides a husband, an adopted child is loft.

Mr John Timlale, one of the oldest I pioneers of the West Coast passed ' peacefully away at his residence, Brick Street, Greymouth. yesterday afternoon. Mr Tindale was born in Lincolnshire, England in 1838, and left with his parents for Australia, arriving in Geelong, Victoria in 1813, and came to Greymouth in 1864. Deceased is survived by three sons John. Benjamin (of tho Public Works Department, Greymouth), Edward (Australia), and by four daughters, Mrs Wnldie (Wellington). Mrs Gibbs (Baurinm). Mrs (lollop (Roxburgh), and Miss Alice Tindale (Greymouth). He is also survived by five brothers and three sisters, who are all, with the exception of Edward, living in Australia.

In respect to the complaints on behalf of the Auckland Racing Club regarding the levies by the New Zealand Racing Conference for management purposes, based on gross totalisator turnover, the remarks of Sir Edwin Mitclielson were brought under the notice of Mr ;T. S. Barrett, who was one of the delegates of the Canterbury Jockey Club to the Racing Conference last month. Mr Barrett states that the Auckland Racing Club has no real grievance. The revenue of the Conference is raised in exactly the same way as is the revenue of the country—not in proportion to the services rendered, hut to the ability of the citizens to hear the burden. The man with an income of £IOOO a year receives no greater measure of police protection nor any more benefit from the administration of justice than doei the man with £3OO a year, but he pays more for such services, in proportion to his ability, just as the wealthy' racing clubs pay more for the administrative costs of the Racing Conference than those clubs in less prosperous circumstances.

Sheetings.—Real good quality, guaranteed./' Me do not stock inferior low priced sheetings.—-54-inches wide, usually 2s lid a yprd, McKay’s sale price 2s 3d a yard; 80-inehes wide, usually 4s Cd a yard, McKay’s sale price 3s 6d a yard.—Advt.

Half-price days begin on Saturday, August 7th. Final Clearance of all winter goods. Now two articles for the price of one. Now the article you want at half price. If you can buy for . ss anywhere we will give you the difference. We know our half prices are unbeatable. —McGruers, The Leading Drapers, Hokitika and Greymouth. —Advt.

Goods traffic through tho Otira tunnel for the week ending Saturday last, totals approximately 7370 tons.

The Hospital Pall Committee will meet to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at the Board rooms at 7 o’clock sharp.

Tho Elsie arrived from Okuru this morning. Mr J. Ritchie and Mrs Cron were passengers.

During the absence in Christchurch of the Rev. I)r. Kennedy owing to illness, the Rev. Father Timonoy will take charge at Hokitika. He was a, passenger on the express I nun Christchurch on Saturday.

A record exportation of eggs from Otago will lie made during the coming season. Already 10! 10 crates, each containing thirty dozen eggs, have been sold with the option <d supplying up to 3000 crates for the London market. *.

A sure mark will he Ihe first prize in the popular Golden TrenMiie Improved Double Butt Art Union. Send now for your 2s fid ticket or hook of nine for £l. £IOOO prizes, Sold everywhere.—Advt.

At tho Magistrate’s Court this morning before Mr W F- Williams, .1.1’., Alfred Robertson, on si charge of carnal knowledge was further remanded till Thursday morning next, when the charge will be hoard hv Mr Meldrum s.si.

Messrs M. Touston and Co. (in conjunction with Messrs W. Jeffries and Co A will sell at the -Mart, Wharf St., on Thursday, August 24th, at noon, on behalf of Mr W. T. Bond, his highly improved farm of 283 acres at AraInua. together with the Whole of the live and dead stock as a going concern. Fuller particulars from the auctioneers.

All arrangements are, now well in hand, for tho All Saints’ Tennis Club Ball in the Soldiers’ Hall on Wednesday next, 18th inst. Tickets are having a ready sale, and a large crowd is expected. A very dainty supper will be served by the ladies of the Club. Music by C. Boss’s orchestra. Tickets 2s ("id.—Advt.

In connection with the biennial visit to Hokitika of tile Reefton District. High School football and basket ball! teams arranged for the coining week-end a few more billets are required. The Rector and staff would bo pleased to hear from anyone able to billet one or more of our visitors, from Thursday evening until Monday afternoon.

An tun i (fil>lcs nr ran :»;on lent was arrived at by the Westland and West Coast suli-unious at a meeting of repersentatives of the two bodies held on Saturday evening. It was decided that the present senior competition bo cancelled and instead of these games to receive teams from Westland, namely Excelsior, Kanieri and Kokatalii and euimnemc immediately a competition amongst (Lose teams and Stars and United.

A return issued by the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon R. F. Bollard) shows that the registrations of motor vehicles up t > the end of last month now total 142,078. The following are the particular; of the vehicles registered : North Island, cars 57,737; trucks, etc. 13,307; cycles, 10,409—total 87,733. South Island, cars, 30.171; trucks, etc. 5958; cycles, 12.813—total 54.945.

Tho Magistrate’s Court Amendment Bill was read a first time in the House last Friday. The Minister for Justice, the Hon Mr Rolieston, said that the principal change proposed concerned Magistrates’ salaries. The measure provided mat the four senior Magistrates in the four chief centres should be paid £ IGGO a year, and the other Magistrates £9OO. The fees paid for services as Coroner were to be abolished, and it was intended that the. salaries paid should include remuneration for such work.

j’ut yourself on side then you can put side on yourself if you win the £4090 prizes in the popular Golden Treasure Improved ouble Butt Art Union. Tickets 2s fid eaeli or book of nine for £1 on sale everywhere.—Advt.

Tn the latest number of “Aussie,” August issue, there is ample humour to keep anyone well supplied with jokes and stories until the next issue comes along in a month’s time. There are more than seventy drawings in this issue, each with a laugh that can be passed on in cottage, mansion or camp; •and there are twice the number of funny stories and jokes and verses, all of them by good Australian, New Zealand and South Sea writers. “Aussie” is one of the few publications that have their writers and artists gleaning their stories and jokes at first hand. There is some splendid stuff in this latest issue.

The practice of wrapping bread in proper paper wrappers is considered by Dr T. Fletcher Telford, Jledieal Officer of Health for the Canterbury and "West Const Health Districts, as highly desirable from a. health point of view, and lie is of opinion that the time lias arrived when all bread offered for sale should be placed in protective wrappers. This is almost universal in England, and America, and the practice is becoming more general in Australia. Some Christchurch bakers say that apparently the public, do not want bread offered to them in wrappers, as during the outbreak of influenza, when it might be assumed purchasers of bread would desire to avoid any possible risk of infection, there was no extra dem for wrapped bread. To make the practice universal would involve all loaves being made of the same size ami shape. The wrappers cost one penny for five, and a number of wrappers are accidentally torn when tlie bread is hein put into them.

It is astonishing how quickly it acts. What? “NazoJ.’’ the proved remedy for coughs and colds. Costs only Is fid for (!() doses.—-Advt.

We have always something new to offer in the way of “sensational bargains’’ and this week the inducement is 40in. dress goods in serviceable materials and colours at Is lid, 54in. at 2s lid and 4s lid.—Schroder and Co. —Advt.

36-inch striped flannelettes, usually 2s Gd a yard, McKay’s sale price Is 9d a yard.—Advt.