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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1928, Page 3

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The Grey Harbour Board at a meeting last evening decided to accept the scheme submitted by Mr R. T. .Stewart. of Dunedin, to improve the Grey bar, at a cost of t'7500. It was explained that Mr Stewart's scheme required 481) to 500 horse-power to work the pump, which would discharge two hundred thousand gallons of water per minute against a head of 300 l'eet of water. There would lie two nozzles, enclosed in a .submerged steel cylinder, a branch pipe from which up to the atmosphere above the surface admitted air. The pressure in the cylinder induced the air to circulate round (lie jets of water as a sleeve, and this sleeve prevented the iets from mixing with the water through which they were pro. jected against the material to be removed. The air sleeve was projected into the material, causing it to ruse and dissipate in the current. A meeting was held at the Town Hall this morning in regard to a suggestion from the Returned Soldiers’ Association for a united service on Anzac Day. Mr G. A. Berry (Mayor.) presided. The clergy present were Canon Hamilton, lievd. Knowles-Sinith, lievd. Hayward. Captain Barnes, and Messrs Evans (President) and Paterson (Secretary R.S.A.). Apology was made for the absence of Father Ffnnerty on whose behalf it was stated a Roman Catholic service would he held at 9.30 a.m. and for Rcvd. J. Perkins., who wrote regretting the proposal to abandon the ordinary church service which had. been so successful in the past. Canon Hamilton and Rpvd. Hayward favoured the Church services being continued and said that would he done. Rcvd. Ivnowlcs-Smith favoured the unite! service. It was resolved the Church services he held in the forenoon, and the united service in the Princess Theatre at 2 o'clock ia the afternoon. Canon Hamilton to he the occasional speaker. Captain Barnes suggested a special address he given the children. It was decided the Mayor preside at the public united service, and that the front seats downstairs bo reserved for the children. Following the service the returned men and the military on parade will visit the three war memorials to deposit wreaths, and later the returned men will visit the cemetery and piare wreaths on the graves of deceased comrades. The clergy were asked to prepare the order of service for the public gathering in the afternoon. and to include well-known hymns. The Mayor stated the whole of the service would he conducted indoors and its national character should he maintained in its entirety.