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Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1931, Page 4

A benefit dance in aid of quake sufferers will be held in All Saints’ Hall vision has been made as far as is huniOrchestrn. On Friday next, February 13th. the proprietors of tlje Merry-go-round and other shows in Cass Square are giving a benefit in aid of the Earthquake Relief Fund. As the proceeds are in aid of a worthy cause the patronage of the public is solicited. Advt. Good heavy coloured towels 4'2in. by 20in. special to clear at Is 9d per pair at Frank Hades.—Advt. If you want a taxi, day or night, or a trip to Lake Kanieri, ring ’phone No. 176, Thomas Moore, Park Street. —Advt.

Tenders for the supply of 10,000 fruit eases for Samoa, are invited in this issue.

The (uitries for the fat stock sale at Arahura on Monday appear in Hus issue. The Government steamer Tutanekai went to her grave on Wednesday being taken out iirio Cook Strait and scuttled

The Brunner district excursion to Hokitika arrived this morning, a mrge cnowd (arriving. Cass Square was made tin* rendezvous. The weather is perleet for the outing.

W. Jeffries and Co. notify a stock sale at the Kokatahi Sale Yards on Wednesday, February 18, at 12 noon. Additional entries must for the fixture be sent in before noon on Saturday Februarv 14th.

Mr Arnold Perry will render a selection from Handel during the evening service at St. Paul’s Methodist Church to-morrow and special offertories will be taken throughout the day for the Earthquake Relief Funds.

Private advice lias been received that Sister St. Canice of the Mission Convent, Greenmeadows, has been injured and is in hospital at Napier Park Racecourse. Sister St. Canice is a member of the Mitchell family of Stafford.

One of the members of the Unem-

ployed Board, Mr Bromley of Wellington, will meet the overseers of the district Counties and Boroughs of the West Const together with the representatives of the various Unemployed Committees at Grey mouth on Monday at 2,lff) p.m,, to discuss ways and means of putting scheme No. 5 into operation.

.Messrs Black and Stephens. General Motor Carriers and Contractors, who have been successfully carrying throughout the district, notify they have a freight service to and from Kokatahi ami Kolterangi to Hokitika, twice daily*, while they are also prepared to carry out any transport, in town or to any* part of the district. Phone 190 or 130 M, and instructions will receive prompt service and attention.—Advt.

A phenomenal catch of groper was secured by a Timam fisherman recently. when he brought 20 cases into port from a day’s fishing near the Rangitata (states the Herald). This is considered to b« a record catch for the sea,ion. Groper and other line fish have been fairly plentiful of late, although trawlers have experienced a lean time. Two boats have departed for Nelson, where trawlers, it said, are meeting with more success.

Ploughmen are a vanishing race these days in and around Auckland (sa.vs the Auckland Star). When a Point Chevalier resident who wanted to break! up half an acre of land for market gardening found himself in a difficulty, he attached a single-furrow plough to the rear of a small motor van. His son, aged 15 years, drove the vehicle and ho himself guided the plough. The work was successful and speedily accomplished at a cost of 3fs for petrol.

The death is recorded of a former well-known West Coast pioneer, Mr Charles Goodwin, who in his ninetieth year passed away on Tuesday last at his residence, Collingwood Street, Nelson. ft is about 20 years since the deceased left this district for Nelson, after having spent over forty years on the Coast. Coming from railway works in South Canterbury, where he was employed on G. G. Wright’s contract for part of the main south line, he line! a good claim at the Kuninra rush, and subsequently opened a store at Brunner. La,tor lm kept stores at Ngahere and Blackball, selling out at the latter place to the firm of Armstrong and Hasiie. He was throe times married, and his third wife survives him, there being no family.

Speaking at the beekeepers’ demon- «! ration at Tuakau on Saturday, M* W. J. Jordan, ALP., for Maniikau, stated (says the Auckland Staid that the only primary produce from New Zealand that had not slumped in price was honey. In the markets of the world Now Zealand honey, thanks to (the excellent methods under which it was graded and sold, more than held its own with all competitors. Similar testimony came from Air W . Hillary, president of the Beekeepers' Association. “Our honey is now being marketed in all the Continental countries of Europe, ’’ he said, ‘‘ln Germany. Sweden, and in Norway the demand for our product shown increasing sales every month, and so long as the oeekocoers of New Z< aland keep up G-e excellent standard which exists to-dav, then we have nothing to fear from anv of our competitors.”

Great reductions are being made at Schroder and Co’s Sale for cash, especially in Hats, hrocks, and T'liinishings. To those about moving in to now homes, we extend a special invitntion to purchase at onr great sale, now on. You can reserve goods for future delivery at Schroder and Co. The finest stock to select from in town. —Advt.

Egg Production increased with Wad ham’s Poultry Spice! Not a forcer All grocers and stores.—Advt.

Wadhnm’s Poultry Spice builds constitution! Does not force, II lbs Is hd. All grocers and stores.

■ Wad ha m’s Poultry Spice the most economical egg producer! II lbs Is 9d. All grocers and stores. —Advt.

Parisian ties selling at Is to Is 6d sale price at W. H. Btopfortli’s.—Advt.

The Fire Brigade desire to acknowledge receipt of a donation of £1 }s from the Hokitika Gas Cov. Ltd.

Mr I). .1. EvanSj County Clerk, who has been on a holiday visit to the North Island is returning from Christchurch this evening by the express.

-Mails which left Wellington on December 30lh. on the Makura via Han Francisco arrived at London on January 29th.

Advice wus received locally conveying news that Mrs Nightingale formerly of the Dominion Hotel) and child, who had bam on a visit to Napier were sale, they Having reached Palmerston North on their homeward journey. The Napier 'Daily Telegraph" one of the papers that has suffered a total loss of its property in the recent disaster, celebrated its diamond jubilee on Saturday last, when a special jubilee number of 60 pages was issued setting out in excellent detail the progress of 'the town and paper during the last sixty years. Alas that three days later this progressive newspaper property should have suffered such serious damage.

Two men were discovered attempting to break open a safe with an axe behind a boarding house at Auckland at 3 o’clock on Friday morning of last week and were arrested b,v Constable Gleason, The safe, which was 2ft Gin in height and 2f‘t in width, weighed about two hundredweight, and was stolen from a bottle exchange at 11, ftturdee street the night before. When they were discovered the men had succeeded in smashing off the handle of the safe and damaging the. brass fittings on the door, but they were unable to break it open. MV A. Dodd, proprietor of the bottle exchange, stated that lie left his office securely locked, but when lie went to work on Friday morning the lock

of the front door had been forced and the safe, which contained only £2 Os 3d, and some letters had been stolen. He later saw the safe at the police station and opened it with his key. Ernest Richards, a labourer, aged 50, also a young seaman, aged 16. who will subsequently appear at the Children's Court, were brought before Mr E. Page, S.M.. at" the Magistrate’s Court in connection with the affair. A remand until Hth. February was granted on the application of Sub-Tnspeetor Wa rd.

16 per cent, reduction off our new up-to-date stock of shirts, is causing ready sales for cash. Call to-day and secure your shirt requirements, only n limited number left. Frank Bade, ’Phone 179.—Advt.

Men’s one piece all wool bathing costumes sale price 6s lid at W. H. Stopforth’s.—Advt.