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Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1930, Page 4

The Gael sailed from Okuru last evening for Hokitika, via Bruce Bay.

Thee is a large amount of motor traffic south this season, and the roads are reported to be in good order generally.

The a..s. Moa which left Iloki'ika on Saturday evening arrived at W.l lington last evening alter a smart trip of 46} hours.

A painful but fortunately not serious injury-was received by a man named Maurice Anderson at Kaiata sawmill yesterday' afternoon, when a slugging chain which broke under the strain, struck him on the chest.

A temporary footbridge has been erected across the box inter which is appreciated greatly by southern visitors to the Fox glacier, giving ready access lo the glacier traeK which permits an easy walk on to the ice.

Lady Hore-Ruthven, of South Australia, who visited South Westland with the Craigavons, told a northern newspaper reporter that her party was delighted with what they saw on the West Coast, not having seen such gUpvious sights before.

Mrs John Coyle, who has been so successfully carried on the business of her late husband for some years notifies the business is still being continued under the management ot hefr son John Coyle Junr, and all orders will be promptly carried out. Note the ’phone number, John Coyle No. 95.

Miss Joyce Lindsay (witli 525 marks), of the Greymouth Main School was successful in winning a Junior National Scholarship. She was the dux of the school, last year, and is the daughter of Mr and Mrs C. H. Lindsay, Palmerston Street. Master Gordon Ernest Windsor of Ross, was also successful, with 524 marks.

The window at the Economical Crockery Shop is allowing a- few of the many lines that have been greatly reduced. Fancy jugs Is each; plain glass jugs fls each; coloured egg cups 3d each; glass lemon squeezers 4d each; glases 4d and 6d each; fancy cups and saucers 9d eaeli; cujp, saucer add plate 2s set; sandwich

sets 6s 6d, 7s 6d, 8s 6d; 21-»piece tea s-.+s 9s 6d a set. P. Stephens, Proprietress.—Advt.

lb was oriigina.My announced that their Excellencies the Governor-Gener-al and Lady Alice Fergnsson would be leaving Wellington by the Rangitata for England on February Ist. The date of the departure of the Rangitata has been) 'postponed' until February Bth, and their Excellencies will thus be another week in New Zealand. The civic farewell by Wellington citizens has now been altered to take place in the Town Hall on February 6th.

At the Soldier’s Hall on Friday night there will be a special benefit dance for the building funds, when Fred Smith’s Christchurch Band will be associated with the Black Hand Orchestra in providing continuous music for a very fine evening’s dance programme. Cool drinks and ices will be on sale in the hall. Dancing begins at 8 30p.m., and the admission is fixed at 2s 6d. A large attend'nee of town and country patrons is assured for this special dance night.

Addisons have just opened to-day a range of all the new shades in “ Lady Jane Hosiery.”—Advt.

The death occurred at Westport on Saturday evening of Mrs Mary O’Gorman.' She was born in Dunmore County Clare, Ireland, and was 86 years of age. In December, 1886, she came to the Coast in the Alamba, which arrived in Hokitika on May 24. The following year she was married at Ross to James who predeceased her by six years. She went to Westport 39 years ago, where she resided since. Of her eleven children six survive—three sons, John and James, of Wellington, and Frank, Westport; also three daughters, Mrs M. H. Reedy and Mrs J. C. Brown, of Westport, and Mrs E. McCorraac, of Wellington.

The Mercantile Gazette notifies the registration of new companies, including:—North Brunner Syndicate, Ltd. Registered Dec. 19th. 1929. Office, 213 Manchester St., Christchurch. Capital: £I2OO, into 1200 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: R. Leslie, J. Broome, F. W. Mitchell, R. Wilson, A. J. Burley, E. Allen, W. J. Burley, one share each. Object: To acquire from R. Wilson his interest in an application or coal prospecting license over the area at Brunner known as the North Brunner Coal Mine; and W. McKay and Eon. Registered as a. private company. Dec. 16th. 1929. Capital: I £II,OOO into 11.000 shares of T!l each. ' Subscribers; Nelson—M. A. Nightingade 8980, W. A. Armstrong 2000, J. B. Nightingale 10. Motueka—A. G. Nightingale 10. Objects: To acquire and take over the business of drapers carried on at Nelson bv M. A. Nightingale under the style of AY. McKay and Son,

Your child needs a bicycle to go to school on. Buy one now at L. S. Ross’s Cycle Depot and teach the child to ride before school starts.—l2.