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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1927, Page 2

Notice of the impounding of a bay stallion at Kokatahi Pound, appears in tliis issue. Gas Cooking Demonstrations next Thursday, filial of series. The following Thursday. Gas Cooking Competition, open to all residents of Hokitika, entries free. Useful household prizes for most points gained in competition. Further particulars next week.— <Advt.

The Christchurch “Press” says:— Dunedin clients of A. Y. IVhitta will he called upon in the Lower Court on Thursday (to-day! on charges of making a bet with a bookmaker. Approximately thirty cases will he called. Seventy-one cases have already been dealt with, the total fines amounting to £1022.

At the meeting of the Westland Land Board when it was dealing with an application for a timber tutting license. Mr Revell requested the Board to arrange that applicants for timber cutting licenses should give notice to the leasees of the areas on which there was millable timber, of their applications for the right to cut.' Mr Murdoch later supporter] the proposal as :t very fair and reasonable request. Tbe Board agreed that the request was a reasonable one.

The question of disposal ol the surplus profits for the past financial yeai was discussed by the Dunedin Savings Bank trustees yesterday, stated a Press Association telegram. It was agreed to grant £IOOO to the Dunedin free public library ns an endowment. A grant of a similar amount was made in 1010. and the library will now receive the benefit of interest on £2OOO. A grant of £IOOO was also made to the Otago University general fund and it is understood that the amount will he subsidised £ for £ by the Government,

' Messrs M, Houston and Co offer for .sale a farm of 113 acres for lease with right to purchase, as a going concern. The Public Works Tenders Hoard has accepted the tender of Mr J. Hart for building the Technical School hostel at Karoro. Greymouth. Work will be proceeded with at once. The Hokitika Ladies Hockey Club journeyed to Greymouth yesterday afternoon and played the United team on the Recreation ground. Hokitika had an easy win being successful by six goals to nil. The ‘•Brownies’’ are small people who do good by lending a helping hand. So if you would like to help them please come to the Town Hall on Friday afternoon, where they will have home made sweets, cakes etc. for sale, and dips for the children.—Advt. To-morrow (Friday) Nurse Spring of the Plunked Society will, pay her usual visit to Hokitika. She will visit in the morning and in the afternoon she may he consulted at St. Andrew’s Hall from 3 to -1.30 p.m. Messages left with .Mrs Geo. Perry (Hall St.) will receive attention. The Returned Soldiers’ Fin-lire I cur nanicnt will he continued ill the Soldiers’ Hall next Friday. May 2(h), ;1 ( H o’clock sharp. First prize, doublebed down <|ui!t ; second, half-dozen pi!-! low slips, hall-dozen tea towels; third pair gent’s pyjamas; fourth, gent’s shirt and collar to match. I’lav will he in the annexe which will ho specially heated, ensuring a eomlortahle night’s play. Fight o’clock. Supper provided. Admission 2s.—Advt. The death took place at lU'cltoii Hospital on Tuesday of Air James Bernard Woods, a miner well known in Reefton and all over the Inangahua field. The deceased, who was afflicted with miners’ phthisis, had worked in the Kncrgetio, Keep-lt-Hark, Globe, and Rig River Mines, as well ns at Waiuta. He was .17 years of age, and a native of Victoria, a single man, and had been 111 years in New Zealand.

Ladios’ black Roslyn woollen ribbed kill lied stockings—more suitable for elderly Indies—will outlast livo ordinary kind and stand mending. Trices Cs fid and 7s fid at McKay’s.- Advt. Regular stocks drastically reduced. Ladies’ Mack cotton Imre Bid arid Is -Id pairladies’ all wool llot any Cask more hose, in *• •2s l()d pair; ladies’ silk and wool hose, As 10d pair; ladies’ all-wool Ca unt.'ot gloves, 2s fid and 3s ltd; scalloped and embroidered duchess sets, 2s fid : pure linen embroidered enshion rovers, 2s fid. MeOruer’s Lire Sale, Hokitika and Grcvmouth. —Advt.

Kew rubber coats, just, opened Two dozen ladies’ Mark rubber eoats, size? from II to 50in. These goods are usually sold at 32s Od. Our price ]os ltd. Schroder and Co. Advt.