LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1930, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

Mails which left Wellington on the 15th. July per R.AI.S'. Makura via San Francisco, arrived at London on 12th. August. ..

Air C. AI. Malfroy, of the State Forest Service, Wellington, who was injured in a motor accident oii July 24tli, is still,in the Mater Misejricordiae Hospital, Auckland. He expects toAbe (jischarged in about a wepk, AS

. The annual meeting o;f the Westport ’Jockey Club whs’held on Friday Wiling,' Air Cliff Thomas presiding. The following officers were elected:—Patron, Air A. ;. president, Mr C. Thomas; vice-president: Air F. Roche; auditor, Air J. Radford; committee; Messrs t Brown, Keating, Afethven, Scanlon,'Colvin, Young; Lambert, Cummings and Petersen. A long list l of new members were elected.

The puncturing or blowing out ; . of tyres when a vehicle is travelling at high speed is an ever-present danger,’’ said Mr A. Tyndall, Highways Board engineer, in a paper was read at the recent conference in Wellington on road accidents. Mr Tyndall said that nothing had been done in this country by roading authorities to eliminate this trouble, but the Main Highways Board was ht the present time going into the question of obtaining a special magnetic truck for operation on the highways. The truck would be bitted with an el-ectro-magnet which would pick up nails and other ironwork off the roadway:

Nurse Venie A. Dawes, at present taking her maternity course at tiiFranklin Memorial Hospital at Waiuku, after going through her nursing course at the Auckland Hospital, lias achieved the honour of passing highest in the recent State nursing examination for the whole of New Zealand. Prior to taking up nursing, Miss Dawes tool; her. B.Sc. degree. It is understood when she completes her course at WaL uku it is her intention to go abroada missionary. Miss Dawes is a Devon port girl, her parent residing at Jubilee Avenue. Local renders will remember Mr and Mrs J. S. Dawes in former years, Mr Dawes having been propriet or and editor of the “Guardian”, while Mrs Dawes is a member of the wel known Ross family of Gibson Quay. Their daughter, Miss Venie, who ha passed .her examinations with such credit, is also a native of Hokitika. '

One of the most attractive to visit New Zealand waters is the Corinthic. Though a veteran in the New Zealand run—her present voyage being her sixty-eiglith—she i s always admired by men who work by the sea as a very fine class of ship. During the early part of the war she waft kept busy carrying Home meat, cheese and butter. Later she was converted into a and sl.f took Home the 23rd reinforcement and the last reinforcement to leave New Zealand. Mr Albert H. Hughes, the present chief engineer, was on the vessel between 1914 and 1918. yin 1918 he was transferred to Genoa as superintending engineer for the White Star Company. In 1925 he was transferred back to the Corinthic as chief engineer.