LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1932, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

A committee of the local Ministers and representative laymen has arranged a series of discussions to be heiu ir> All Saints’ Hall 1 at an early date on the general subject, “The Mind of Christ and the Problems of the Day.” Speakers will be appointed on set subjects with a free discussion after each •lecture. The programme will be as follows;—(1) The Church’s Duty to speak on Social Problems; (2) The World in Chaos, (a) Internationally; (b) Within the Nation; (3) Christianity and Unemployment, (a) 'l'he Effects of Unemployment on the Human Character; (b) Unemployment and the Religion of Christ; (c) What can the Christian do; (4) Christianity and International Relations , (a) The Present Economic -Wary (b) National-Prejudices-;-(A-The Way to a Better World Order; (5) Individual Character the Basis of the State, (a) Home; (b) School; .(c) Church; (6) That God may come out Evil. The object of these meetings is to show to the community at large that the" branches of Christ’s Church can together give their Master’s message in a time of distress.

The Grey River bar has claimed many victim’s, the Kaponga being the seventh total loss. In nearly every case of total loss, the vessel has grounded on the northern side of the bar, and gradually worked across and been swung on to the North-lip Head, wh.ie she has been broken up by the heavy sen's. In only one case, that of the •Opouri, has much of value been salvaged, all other vessels having broken up rapidly. The Opouri s engines weie. salvaged, and later put in the Opihi, where they are still giving good service. The last vessel wrecked at Greymouth was the Blackball Company s •Ngahere, a single screw steamer of 1090 tons gro-s. Running under charter to the Union Company she went agiound on May 12, 1924. She was swung on to the North Tip Head and rapidly broken up, some of her crew having narrow escapes from drowning. On the same spot the Melbourne Steamship Company’s steamer Perth went aground in the previous year. Other wrecks include the Hawea, Kotuku, Taupo, and Opouri. The Union Coy’s steamer steamer Mapourika also went ashore on th e north side of the river when entering, some thirty years ago, but she was .salvaged and relaunched into the river some, months later.