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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1928, Page 2

Tlie Westland electoral roll contains 9078 names. The entries for the fat stock sales at Aralmra on .Monday ajipear in this issue. The question of whether they were wethers or whether they were stags or rains engaged the attention of counsel at the .Magistrate's Court yesterday. Anyhow stated one speaker it did not matter whether they were wethers or whether they were anything else. The presentation ball in the Public Hall. Kokatahi, in connection with the recent Winter Show takes place on .Monday evening next. Tho Black Hand Orchestra will supply the music, and the other arrangements will he equally complete. A. very large attendance is being looked forward to. Tlie death of Mr Albert Alderton, of Preston Hoad, Greymouth, took place yesterday morning. He was -1(5 years of age, and leaves a widow hut no family. Deceased was a native of Suffolk, England, and enlisted in the Imperial Army when 1G years of age. He leaves four brothers (Fred, William, and Charles, in London, and Arthur, in Greymouth); also two sisters (Maud' in Harrow Green, and Mabel, in China). The Rabbit Nuisance Bill introduced into tlie House on Tuesday is a consolidation of the existing law regarding the rabbit nuisance, with amendments which have been found necessary. The Bill gives power to the Agricultural Department, or a Rabbit Board, when obliged to undertake tho rabbiting of a property because of the owner's neglect to do so. to collect aiid sell the skins, giving the owner credit for 7b per cent of the net proceeds. The protection of any animal which is a natural enemy of the rabbit is at present Dominion wide, but it is proposed to limit it to specified districts. Authority is to be given to keep under proper restriction Angora and other rabbits carrying valuable fur. Considerable changes in the law are proposed in connexion with Rabbit Boards. They are designed to meet the present day requirements of the Boards, as represented hv their Association. There are now three distinct kinds of Boards, but if the Bill passes there will be only one Kind. The new Board will be able to levy their rates on any one of the bases now applying to the three different kinds of Boards. The Bill provides that all existing Boards shall ensure and that both new and existing Boards may change their basis of rating from tlie stock basis to the rateable value of acreage basis, from the rateable value basis £o tlie acreage basis, or vice versa but not from the rateable value or acreage basis to the stock basis. In every case a poll of the ratepayers will determine the form. The subsidy in the case of existing Boards is not proposed to bo changed, the only alteration in this direction being that in future Boards formed with a smaller area than 20,000 acres will not receive a subsidy. The general election of tlie Boards is to take place on the same day as the county elections. Stock owners’ Boards are to be given power to raise loans. Specials for this week: Fifteen only boys’ Petone navy college shorts, sizes 9 to 10, at 7s lid; sizes 11 to 13, at 8s (id. Twelve only all wool colonial sport suits, sizes 9 to 13s at 19s 6d. Schroder and Co. —Advt. No cold is “ Nazol”-proof. Highly powerful and penetrating, it goes right to the root of the trouble. Acts like a charm. 80 doses Is 6d, ready for pse.—Acjvj;. ■

Messrs Kortegast Bros, notify the latest winners in the Jusfrute Crown * Seals Competition. The Postal Department advises that telegrams for Mexico are now subject to censorship in that country. "Shine on Harvest Moon,” one of the latest hits, price 4s, at Yarrall’s, Revel! Street.—Advt. ( The annual ball in aid of the funds of the Kumara Memorial Hall will he held on Friday, August 3rd. Ross’s Orchestra will supply the music. The 'Westland Power Ltd. has a notice in this issue in reference to ( canvassing for'electricity consumers on the Company’s behalf. Hockey one, Shinty two, Sntacky three and away 1 Where to ? The Hockey Club’s Ball on Wednesday, of course, for the senior game, and on Thursday for the juniors. ICvery thing first class and sporty. An accident occurred on Thursday at the Landing Sawmill, Inangahua, the victim being Mr W. Schwass junr. In the course of his work he inflicted on liis foot a severe cut necessitating eight stitches. Owing to the unfavourable conditions prevailing this morning the Bectors of the Grey and Hokitika Schools conferred by telephone and decided to ]>ost[>one the Newman Shield match set down for this afternoon on Cass Square. It happened during the Auckland Commercial Travellers’ drive for old clothes on Saturday. One of the workers, on knocking at the front door of a suburban home, was greeted with profuse apologies by the good lady of tlfe house, who had forgotten to get together a bundle on the previous evening. Asking the collector to wait just a second, she hastened inside, and within a few minutes she was hack again with a good bundle of oddments. The “C.T.” accepted the bundle, lifted his liat, and went off down the garden path, but he was not outside the gate before a wild yell caused him to wheel about. Down the path, dad only in singlet and trousers, with one hand waving in the air and the other tightly grasping his nether garments, came : the male head of the family. “ Tim wife has given you the only pair of braces I’ve got in the house,” he pants ed, and a scraggy pair of suspenders . changed hands. 1 Thirty-six Inch Crepe Do Cliene. Shades of pink, lielio, blue, rose, cham--1 pagne and apricot. Regular prices 4s 1 lid.—Realisation Sale Price 3s lid at McKay’s.—Advt. Patersons have opened up a special t purchase of traveller’s samples in girls 1 and maids’ flannel frocks, sizes up to 39in. Prices from 5s lid to 17s Gd. Also ladies’ cardigans from 7s Gd. ] Those values will surprise you. Call r and inspect.—Advt. , Mothers! Protect your kiddies from colds and coughs. Give them “Nazol , on sugar. Sprinkle baby’s pillott. 1 Safe, pleasant, economical. GO doses i Is. (id.—Advt. 1 Latest record “ Shine on Harvest • Moon”, better than “Breeze.”—At 1 Yarrall’s, Revoll Street. —Advt. 5 Specials for this week: Ladies’ flan- ’ ncl frocks at 14s Gd, velvet frocks at } 12s Gd. new styles in repp and cliarmc- ’ laine at 39s Gd, 49s Gd, to G9s Gd.— Schroder and Co.—Advt. ; Messrs 1.. Brown and Co., of the t Hokitika Cycle AVorks, notify the public of the surrounding district, t that owing to being considerably overt stocked that they intend holding a - clearing sale for one month of first - grade Arrow cycles, built from gert- - nine B.S.A. and Brampton fittings, 1 at greatly reduced prices to clear. Old bicycles taken as part payment. Note the address, I. Brown and Co., 1-lokitika.—Advt.