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Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1931, Page 4

March 27.—At 7.30 p.m. Meeting Hokitika Borough Council. A final reminder is given of the ball to-night at the ■.Soldiers’ Hall, commencing at 8.30 o’clock. Newmans Motors 1/d. notify that if sufficient inducement offers to run cars to tho Westport races leaving on Saturday morning at G a.m. Please ring No. 171 for reservations. Messrs W Jeffries and Co. will sell by auction at Princess Theatre on Friday next at noon, tig. rights of the Kumara Racing Club for their Easter Monday meeting to a publican’s booth with soft drinks bar and the rigliL to race cards.

Entries, for the Hokitika races dost? ;it 8.30 o’clock tomorrow (light There is the. promise of a good meeting, as a long string of horses is coming to the Const, On Friday at noon the rights to two publicans’ booths will be sold by ! auction by Jeffries and Coy. The race meeting promises to be inaugurated very successfully. Advice has been received that tip l open season for talcing imported and siiativo game commences on May Ist and extends to July 31st. The followin'' nu’y be taken :—Californian quail, Are. 1 1 •: 1 1 i :»11 quail, mallard and grey cluck and black swan. Paradise duck to be taken only in Wataron, Cooks and Karangarua river flats for a spacin' period, May Ist to 7th. Shoot’”lieons“s, 20s each, will he obtainable at Hokitika, Otira, Kumara, Rimu, Ross, Harihari, Wnilio Gorge, and Welicka. Tile usual conditions as to penalties arc gazetted.

Twenty thousand cases of fruit were blown off the trees in the Nelson district recently by a south-west gale, reports the “Evening .Mail.” The estimate i»s that of Mr J. H. Brunt, shipping supervisor in Nelson for the New Eealand Fruitgrowers’ Association. Much fruit on the trees was bruised and rendered practically useless for export purposes. In the majority of orchards Jonathan and Delicious apples suffered extensively. A number of growers have already cancelled their shipping space.

During the flood at Naur.ori, Fiji, the Colonial .Sugar Refining Company supplied food to u mini her of Indian labourers, who, at the time, were unemployed. As soon tip the flood subsided the men wore put to work clearing up and making good the damage. When it came to noon on Saturday the Indians were asked to continue during the afternoon on important protective work required by the company. Although they were offered overtime money for the work, they refused. snyi”<' that they did not work after mid-day.

The hotly of Maurice Lynch, on ( > oi the vintinis of the boating fatality in the Holler on Sunday. 18th March, was recovered at Q o’clock on Monday evening about one and a hall miles from the scene of the tragedy. There was a considerable fresh in the river, the water running over the wire netting. Phil Lynch, a brother of deceased, who was watching the river C'-om the bank- with the aid of field glasses, espied what ho thought might ,■ one 01 tlie bodies being carried down-stream. A boat was launched and it was found to be the body ot Lynch, fully clothed. Ihe search still continues unabated and it is fervently bowed that the body of William Spiers will bo recovered to-day.

The final scores of the Burnley (A ictoria) egg-laying competition again demonstrate the wonderful productiveness of the modern laying ducks. A Khaki Campbell cluck, owned by the L. and L. Egg Ranch, put up an official record, laying 322 eggs in fortyeight weeks—the highest score made under Government supervision. Another Khaki, owned by M. G. Leech, laid 321 ; and one of the samp breed, the property of the Broadleigh Egg Farm. 309. The best individual score recorded by fowls was H. Firth's White Leghorn, which, fed on wet mash, returned 279. Th,> winning Aus- (■ in lorn laid 201 eggs. The Broadleigh Egg Farm's team of six Khaki C ampfell ducUr, laid 1652 eggs; the highest score registered by n team of six fowls was 1485 eggs, laid b.v Hicks Bros’ White Leghorns, so it will be seen that the-Khaki Campbell ducks have the berg of it by a long way. Sec Addisons window display of evening frocks ami evening materials.— Advt.

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Addisons have opencil up to-day ladies velour, tweed and lace doth coats, in the newest shades and styles. Call and inspect.—Advt. Practical quart/, miners are cnquiied for in this issue for Greenland gold mine. Apply by letter only to “.Mining” c'o “Guardian’’ {Jffce. The Rev. 10. A. Osmers, of Ross, Westland, has entered CuddcCdon College, Oxford, for two terms. Afterwards lie will probably work in London be I ore returning to the Dominion towards the end of the year. A tennis tonran’eid will h-"* lield on Hokitika and All Saints Courts on Caster Monday. Entries close on Wed > esd-y April Ist. with the Secretary, Hokitika Club. .Miss Rachel Mandl who has been abroad for an extended period, a lengthy stay being made in England, returned home Inst night. .Mds Maud was accompanied by Mr I. C'oltman sear, of Wellington. Messrs Taylor and Camming, of the City Ihitehery announce another speciality for this week, the special putchase of prime lambs from South Westland, which are being offered at special prices for cash, all meat being reduced.

Miss Park. Diocesan Sunday School Organiser, tvho is staying at All Saints Vicarage, will address the Anglican I’lihlo class to-liight at ? o'clock. She is also to speak to the .Mothers’ 'Union to-m'orrmv in AVI Saints’ Hall at 3 p.m., and at the Lent Service in the evening at 7.30 p.m, she will- give the address. She leaves for Harihari on Friday. The incursion of flood water from the Arnold River into the tunnel at tii'e Grev Power Board’s hydro works at Kaimata. which followed a hreait in the temporary dam at o p.m. on Tuesday, continued yesterdrl. hue tfitwater level gradually fell during the day until its height was by evening negligible. No material damage has resußed. and the delay in operating should lie a brief one. A very painful accident was sustained by Master Harry Reynolds, son of Mr George Reynolds. of Blackball, whilst nr it fishing with his father at Rlackball last evening. It appears that his father entrusted him with the carrying of his gun. which accidentally went off and the full charge was discharged info the youth’s left foot, blowing off his big toe and second toe. He was attended l>y Dr. F. 0. Bennett, of Blackball. About one o’clock yesterday morning a concrete wall used as the foundation for a bungalow which was to he erected oil Hasson's Hill. GrOymoiitl), collapsed on to the roach The concrete was not- reinforced, and it is conjee-t----übed that the collapse Was due to the rain water coming down the side of the hill, and bursting through tlfe wall. A large- quantity of soil was brought down, hut as the actual building of the house had only commenced, not a great deal of timber came down. The property was owned by Mr J, Hcffernau. Murrav Street.

An increase of seven cases of infectious and other notifiable diseases in the Canterbury and West Coa.st Health Districts was reported for week ended noon on Monday, as compared with the previous week. The total was 26. as follows:—Canterbury: Scarlet fever, 4; diphtheria, 1 ; tuberculosis 3; puerperal sepsis, 1 ; erysipelas, 1 : eclampsia, ] ; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2: hydatids, 2. West Coast: Scarlet fever. 1; diphtheria, 8; puerperal sepsis, 1; opthalmia neonatorum, 1. There were three deaths in the Canterbury district, one each from tuberculosis, eclampsia, and ophthalmia neonatorum.

“Don't indulge in what is popularly called I believe, ‘eye-wash,’ ” said Sir Michael Myers (Chief Justice) in the course of an address to law students at Wellington. “I am compelled to say (that, and I am glad to say it, because .1 saw a report of an address given, not in Wellington, by a member of the profession to students, in which be told them that to he successful at the Bar it was necessary to indulge in, to use his own expression, a certain amount of ‘eye-wash,’ But if lie thinks .that that kind of stuff goes down nowadays he is greatly mistaken. It does not go down with juries, it used to go down in the old days, but not now, and it does not. go down with judges. (Laughter). Frankness and candour can be much more successfully used, in my opinion, than this quality which the lecturer advised bis listeners to rifle in their Court work.’