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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1931, Page 4

Tlie service at the Anglican church Koiterangi next Sunday, will lie: Kvensong at 2.30 p.in. Owing to the position of the sawmilling industry in the district at the present, stage, the annual picnic lor employers and employees, which was fixed for February 28, at Hokitika, has been abandoned. Those who have enjoyed Horan and Alack, the. two Black Crows, on gramophone' records, will have the opportunity of hearing this amusing pair at tli c Prince sis Theatre to-night, where thev appear in the sound picture play, “Why Bring That Up.” The doings and sayings of the pair will provide a very jolly entertainment. A narrow escape from losing his sight was experienced hv a To Awaniutu hoy, Gordon Martin, while attending a picnic ((states a correspondent of the “Wanganui Hernl”). He was boiling water in a Tib treacle tin and had jammed the lid on tightly. When the water boiled the lid was blown off and the boy was badly scalded about the face and head. Glow worms make the tunnel on the track to tile Okeliti dam from the lm'lin road a veritable fairyland (says the “Wanganui Chronicle”). The tunnel is about a third of a mile in leiigtli, and the worms’ bright lamps shining iii clusters a lid in pin-jioilits of light are good rewards for quietness to anybody who is making the trip to tlie dam. The track is about a mile in i leiigtli and follows the Mungnboropito stream. 1 Probationer teachers and pupils attending training colleges are to have their allowances reduced by £5 a year as from January Ist, according to advice received by Mr C. It. Kirk, Secretary to the Canterbury • Education Board. Previously the allowances paid were £BO a year to females, and £BS to males, while a hoarding allowance of £3O a year was paid to pupils at the Training Colleges. It is anticipated that many of the young teachers will be seriously inconvenienced by the reduction. 1 A smart shearing performance was registered by eight Maori shearers on Tamvliareparae station, on the East Coast of the North Island, just prior to Christmas. With an early start, the gang got through 2216 sheep in the day, this being a record for the shed, and a good tally for a gang of this size under any conditions. Ihe sheep were the average run of the station flocks, and were turned out in satisfactory condition. Of the eight men, three 'tallied 320, 318, and 314 sheep respectively. Moving on an incline in Victoria road, Devonport, all unattended motor lorry gathered speed and collided with a telegraph pole at the corner of victoria load and Clarence street (says the “Auckland Herald”). The impact caused a short circuit of the file alaiin wiring which the police carried and a call was registered at the station. The brigade, however, was saved the trouble of answering the summons owing to the fact that the tape machine, which registers the alarm, makes a distinction between a short circuit and a • genuine call. The defect was later adjusted.

A fully attended meeting of the West Coast Rugby Union was held last evening, at Greymouth, over which Mr A. Adams (President), presided. The rules of the Union were approved and it was decided that the Union be registered immediately as a corporation. The report of the Grounds Committee as to the new playing area at Ivaroro was read and received and adopted r 4 s very satisfactory. The Ground Committee reported that the work of draining and of constructing the two playing areas would be completed by the end of the month, after which the erectiop of dressing sheds and seating accommodation will lx? proceeded with.

At a meeting of Indies at the Town Hall last evening arrangements were made for the entertainment of the Vice-Regal party after the public reception on the 31st inst. The public reception will take place at the railway station, where a platform will he erected. The Municipal Band, Girl Guides and Boy Scouts will be in attendance. Their Excellencies will be received bv the Mayor and loun Clerk, members of. the Borough Council and of other local bodies. His Worship, the Mayor, will extend a formal welcome to His Excellency and the Town Clerk will read a joint addross on behalf ol the local bodies, namely. Borough Council, Counts Council. Harbour Boaid and Hospital Board. Before Lord Bledisloe replies opportunity will be- given to the member for Vest land (Mr J. 0 Brien) and members of the local bodies to sp ak. At the conclusion of the recep'ion, the Vice Regal party will be driven to the Soldier’s Hall, where Indies will dispense afternoon tea. Subsequently a visit will he made to the Rimu Gold dredge. Being Saturday night, the evening will he left free for their Excellencies. On Sunday forenoon, visits are to be paid to the hospital,S_ and service will be attended at. All Saints at 11 n.m. At 1.30 o'clock the Governor-General's pfrtv will leave, for South Westland. and will not return to Hokitika till February 911 i. leaving the following morning for Wellington, where the Gov-ernor-General is due on February 11th.

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See Addisons for drastic reductions in Ladies’ and Children’s Millinery, inspection invited.—Advfc. The Free Lane© the National Pictorial Weekly illustrates the Might over the Tasman by Guy Monzies, copies at K Lug's Services will be held in the Presbyterian Church, Woo-dstock at 11 a.nu and at Kokatahi at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday 18th. Conducted by the Rev. u. AIcC'K mont. This week’s illustrations in ttie Auckland Weekly News specially features the lone Tasman Flight by Guy .Vieludes. A complete pictorial record Copies at King’s stationer. After a line-weather voyage, the l’ nion Company’s new Monowai arrived in the stream at Wellington early on .Monday morning fiom Sail Francisco on the first trip in the Royal Mail service, and was voted by those on board to bo a comfortable ship. “People want to know when earthquakes are going to happen,’’ said 1W;, lessor Marshall during an address to the. Teachers’ Summer School, Christchurch, on Wednesday night. “There are many earthquakes in New Zealand at present and the people of I’iikaka are alarlned at what is going oil there and want ail investigation, but 1 don’t see how there can be a definite ttitfuveiV’ when a big earthquake stieli as that of 1959 occurred shudderings usually went on for some time while the country was settling down to a state of stability, he said. Falling through a reinforced-glass sky-light to the concrete floor of the press room of the “Evening Post” on Sunday morning, Oliver Staverley, a scho il-boy, aged 13, escaped with a sprained wrist and a bump on the head, reports the “Dominon”. Staverley, together with two other hoys, was playing cricket in the yard at the rear of the building, and it was while in scare!) of the ball that lie crashed through the sky-light, falling a distance of 20 feet. The building was empty at the time of the,accident and the boy lay unconscious for a period before assistance arrived. He was taken to his home. At a large and representative meeting of dairy companies at Pahiatua, Eketahuna, and Southern Hawke’s Bay, under the auspices of the Bush Factories’ Association, the following resolution was carried:—“That this meeting is firmly of Lite opinion after a trial that it is impossible to carry on the industry under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, and that the Government be requested to exempt the industry from the operations of the Act.” Steps are being taken for a monster petition to be presented to the Prime Minister asking that effect be given to tlic resolution. Public notice is given oil behalf of the Westland County Council to-day, that on and after to-morrow, and until further notice, all traffic on Adair’s road in the vicinity of dredging operations will be stopped. To-morrow the dredge will cut through the present roadway, and thereafter through traffic will be interrupted for some time. Access to and from the dredge either from Rinni or Hokitika, will be possible by road, but the round trip will have to be suspended for some time. The dredge is now making for the location of' the new hull in course of erection, and on to which the machinery from the present hull is to be transferred subsequently. Sir Thomas P. Thomas, of Cardiff, who arrived, in Auckland from Sydney by the Niagara, stated that the coal industry at Home was in a very had state. Many causes had contributed to this. One was that the big strike in 1926 had caused orders to he diverted to other countries, and many buyers bad not resumed purchasing front Great Britain. The substitution of oil fuel for coal was another imnortant factor in the situation, while Britain’s Freetrade noliev had caused the mines to languish. Sir Thomas said there were untold billions of tons of coal left in the British coalfields, sufficient to last for the next three generations at a low estimate. There was no eonl in the world equal to that of South Wales for steaming purposes. From Melbourne to Okarito, Mr R. T. Stewart told the meeting in the Chamber of Commerce hall, Christchurch, on Wednesday night, is the shortest distance across the Tasman by aeroplane, and it was quite possible that it would be the route chosen by aviators in the future. Just half a mile north of the township is an abandoned racecourse in the centre of a level piece of country three-quar-ters of a mile wide and four miles long, which would make an excellent landing place. Mr Guy Menzie.s, the Tasman flyer, when lie was off Okarito could not see tin’s area because it is overgrown with gorse, nine or ten feet high. 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The order of Masses, and devotions in St. Mary’s parish on Sunday, dan. 18th will be as follows: —Arahura It) a.m. j Hokitika 8 a.m., 10 a.in., and 7 p. in. It will he a fortnight to-day sinceThomas Tally, a Borough Council employee was reported missing, and no trace of him has been discovered in the meantime. Tally is the third man to be missing in and about Greynioutn during the past six months, Samuel Rothera and .Ernest Mansfield Burr being the other two men who have not been heard of since their mysterious, disappearances some six and three months ago respectively, despite the earnest endeavours ol the police to fathom their whereabout**. Because of the competition of motortransport and the need for replacing, obsolete stock, the New Zealand Railways have embarked on a more extensive building programme than ever in the past. In an interview at Christchurch the Workshops Superintendent (Mr E. T. L. Spidey) stated that an order for sufficient carriages for two complete express trains had now been completed at the Addington M orkshops. Work was at once being started oni thirty more cars of the same type—tent first-class and twenty second-class—-sufficient to make probably four new trains. Two of these might be put intothe south express service, and -the cithers oil the West Const line. All the liilitel'ial for the cars was now at the Addington Workshops, and the building was keeping in work many employees who would otherwise have to he dismissed. The completion of a good number of carriages would mean ageneral improvement in all branches of the service, Mr Spidley emphasisedWhen the new ears were in use thepresent cars would be put on secondaryservices, and the old cars would bescrapped. “We expect to continue for some years with a steady programmeeliminating all the old stuff,” said Mr Spidey. “Because of the good working of the new simps, what was authorised last year will largely he completed by March 31st. We are improving the seating and the comfort of the carriages, to meet the competition of road traffic and because many of our present cars are obsolete.