LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1932, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

The annual meeting of the Excelsior football Club will be held in Keller's Sample Rooms on Thursday evening at 7 o'clock sharp. Krom the King Memorial Hut an ascent of Mount Cook was made on piaster Tuesday by Mr Jack Clnirinau (Christchurch) * and Guide Suter. The hut was left at 2.30 a.m. and the suminit was reached at 10.55 The weathei was perfect, but the absence of snowbridges across the great crevasses on the Linda Glacier gave the climbers some trouble. The summit rocks were entirely free from snow, and thc dreaded ice-cap was found to be in good condition. The return to the hut was made in (>l hours, the total time being 1411 hours.

“‘The days when we got 20s a case for apples are gone for ever and I don t think we will ever get 10s a case again, - ’ remarked the president (Mr U. Premium) at (lie annual meeting of the Canterbury Fruitgrowers’ Association on Saturday evening. He said he thought the price would he stabilised about 3s a ease oil the tree and at that pric<’ the growers ought to he able'to make a living. A member: Don’t publish that price. Another member: But it's all we’re getting now. Mr Freeman said that'the Nelson growers were managing to keep going on 3s a case oil' the tree, and if they could do it the Canterbury growers should be able to do the same, as just as good fruit could be grown bore.’'