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Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1929, Page 4

The entries for the fat stock sales at Arahura on (Monday appear in this sue. a Messrs M. Houston and Co. notify J entries for their stock sale at Harikari on Wednesday next. A moot ing of the general, committee oi the Fire Brigade Demonstration will •m held in the Town Hall on Monday, February 18th. at 8 p.m. Members of sub-committees are requested to attend. At Thursday evening’s meeting ofL the Ore mouth Borough Council, the Mayor expressed his gratification at the amount of beautification being carried out in Greymouth by the citizens. Frontages to many residences were kept neatly cut. thereby improving the appearance of the streets without any expense to the borough. It had been suggested to him that as an encouragement to citizens to co-operate further in this direction a trophy should ibe offered for the best-kept street frontage to a dwelling. He expressed appreciation of the good-citizenship of Mr P. lManchfiekl in presenting two garden seats to the town. A dance for the Boss tennis players will be held in the Public Hall, Ivaniori, to-morrow (Saturday) night.— . . A _

“ How do you like being a farmer again?” was a question put to Mr Coates, Leader of the Opposition and former Prime Minister, at Christchurch shortly after his arrival from Wellington to take part in the ceremony to mark the opening of the electric train service on the Christchurch-Lyttelton line. Mr Contes, who was looking bronzed and fit, replied that he had been a farmer all his life, and during tho past couple of months had been looking after bis farm and certain commercial interests. He admitted that lie had done a bit of harvesting this year. Tbo ex-Premier declined to bo drawn into a discussion on politics, stning that lie had not come to Christchurch for that purpose. He said he was glad to visit Christchurch again and to meet old friends, but his stay would be a short one, as he intended to leave by the ferry steamer night on , his return to the North* l Island. “ Are we. becoming a race of mollycoddles?” was a question asked by Mill. T. Merritt, in his annual presidential address to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, when referring to the large increase in the number of persons employed in Departments, which, he said, was 'largely due to an increasing demand of the public upon the State for social services. “The State is expected to provide economic' utilities that could porperly be done by organised capitalistic exploration, and also act as a huge for people to build their homes ajr* less than market price, and to find capital to provide free schoolbooks. Dentists, doctors, lawyers and others generally act as Father Christmas-„$U Hie year round,” he said.

At a meeting of representatives of the raring and trotting clubs yesterday at Greymouth, measures were taken to curtail the period of the sporting season in the Christmas and New Year holidays. Hitherto it has broken into cue third week. The Westland Racing Club decided to transfer one of Us?' days to the Easter week, and now AMP Greymouth Jockey Club is deciding to do likewise. This renders it possible to curtail the duration of the holiday carnival substantially. . One result of the change is that the Beefton Jockey Club will lie able to follow the Hokitika, instead of as heretofore being tile winding up meeting of tho Const circuit The circuit will now end with the . Greymouth trotting meeting, and avoid three or four extra days, being required for race meetings. The changes proposed should general satisfaction.