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Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1932, Page 4

Anglican service at Kokatahi next Sunday will be evensong at 2 p.m.

The official result of the drawing of the Mv Lucky Day Art Union appears in this issue.

1 A notification appeal's ill this issue of the discontinuance of business of the Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Coy,, Ltd,

There was no improvement in the weather conditions as yesterday wore one the northwest gale increasing in wildness. During, the night there .vas a continuous downpour, the rainfall being very heavy, totalling for the ‘24 hours to 9 o’clock this morning, 2.22 inches.

The school inspectors in Canterbury and the West Coast have been engaged, during the past few weeks, in conducting the proficiency examinations. These are ‘ now completed in most of the schools, and the lists of the successful candidates are being typed out at the office of the Canterbury Education Board. The results of the examinotions will not he released for publication until next week.

A further remand, until Monday, was applied for by Detective-Sergeant Holmes, at the Magistrate’s Court, Greymouth yesterday, in the case of Desmond Ivan Perrin, who is charged that at New Plymouth on September 20, he stole a -clarinet, valued at £3 10s the property of Lawrence Broadway Davis. The remand was granted by Mr A. Naylor, J.P. Bail was previously fixed at self £25 and one surety of £25, but it was not forthcoming.

While proceeding with a full load of cream to the To Aroha-Thames Valley Dairy factory, a lorry skidded in the loose metal at the Tirohia corner of the Paeroa-Te Arolia main highway and capsized into a drain. Of the 27 cans of cream comprising the load, only two were saved, the contents of the others, flowing unchecked into the drain, which was in places! two feet deep with the wasted cream. The driver escaped without injury.

In the House of Representatives, tho Hon. W. Downie Stewart was asked whether any of' the money involved in the defalcations in the High Commissioner’s Office had been recovered. He said none had been recovered up to the present, but it was hoped .t would lie possible to get something buck out oil the superannuation payments due to the officers concerned. He could not say whether legislation would be necessary to ennblo this course to be taken. In the Supplementary Estimates there is a vote of £266(1 to replace the shortage caused by the missapproriations of the two officers concerned.

At the address belov, skilled and fashionable hairdressing la a speciality The mosu ip-to-date equipment foi c-iir waving, shampooing, and other oreatruents >.<is be. n installed, and your most '"acting requirements have oecn entered for. Miss Zilla StcpLcts level! Street,—Adv^,

The Nu-wny hemstitcher, a simple device', is advertised for .sale in another column.

Included among the passengers leaving for th e 'South by the m.v. Gaol to-imon-ow, will be two prospectors, whose destination is the Haast river.

During the Christmas holidays there will be two railway excursions to Lake Mahinapua. The dates fixed ar e December 27th and 31st.

The weights for. the first day of the Hokitika races opening oil Boxing Day, appear in this issue. Acceptances are due at 8.30 o’clock on Friday evening next.

The Finance' Committee of the West, land County Council will meet at 7.30 o’clock on Tuesday evening to deal with the accounts for November, and also deal with the tenders for Petersen road and County supplies.

The Rimu and Woodstock Women’s Irctitute met this week at Woodstock, there being a good attendance. Mrs Appleton, of Hokitika, paid a visit during the afternoon, and this was much appreciated. P!an s for a Xmas Tree for members’ and friends’ children were discussed, and a special meeting will b e . held at Rimu Hall on Friday, December 16, to make final arrangements. Tea was 'served by the hostesses, ■Mrs S> 'Wells and Miss Elsie Stoop.

The Municipal Band visited the Mental Hospital on Wednesday evening and playeß a programme from the band rotunda. Their programme was interspersed with dance music and dancing on the lawns was thoroughly enjoyed. At the conclusion of the programme the staff entertained the band! at supper when the ‘Medical Superintendent thanked the visitors for supplying the programme that evening and for having also supplied the music for the dances during the winter months.

The Inability of respective purchasers of wireless sets in regard to licenses wos made clear by the Deputy Radio Inspector (Mr T. Gates) in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court. Mr Gates said that 1 the radio regulations authorise a licensed radio dealer to-de-monstrate radio receiving apparatus at the residence of a prospective purchaser for a period not exceeding seven days. Persons without a radio receiving station license -who retain and operate radio receiving sets' after tile demonstration period has expired render themselves liable to pi*:secution.

The holiday railway time-table pi'Ovices for a daily service with Christchurch from 17th December tq 7th January. From 9th January to the end of the month, there will be ah extra connection oil Monday of each week iii addition to the three regular connections. On the 24th and 3lst Decehitjei’ there will ba relief trains ill the forenoon from both GreyniOuth and Christchurch, tind also night trains departing at 10.15 o’clock D’om Chvtet* church, arriving at Greymouth at 4.21 o’clock on Christinas and New Year mornings; and leaving Greymouth at 10.50 and reaching Christchurch at 5.20 the next morning.

It is with regret that we record the death of Mr John Thomas Rose-year which took place at Westland Hospital this morning. The deceased was a native of Launceston, Tasmania, and 85 years of agg and had sP en t -sixty years of that period in New Zealand. He was a miner at Kuinara for, many years and later removed to Hokitika. For sixteen years he was caretaker at Hokitika state school, retiring some years ago. He was of a quiet unassuming nature and made many friends who will regret his demise, and extend their deep sympathy to Hie widow and daughter (Mrs Lennane) who are ’.oft to mourn their loss. The funeral take* place on Sunday afternoon.

In the Legislative the Hon. Mark Fagan asked the Government whether it would take into consideration the urgent ■ need of amending the Mining Act in order; to prevent the present practice of persons holding gold-mining areas for purely speculative purposes by making provision for tho payment of a substantial cash deposit by applicants for any goldmining claim the area of which exceeded five acres. The Hon. R. Masters replied that it was recognised that the existing mining law was not ‘■■-tisfactory, and it was proposed when the next Mining Bill was being prepared to ensure that claims and other mining rights were worked more fully that they were at present.

Mr H. E. Davis, London manager of the Dairy Producers’ Board, ha s received from a retailer who uses New Zealand butter extensively one 4in copper screw. This was sent to London, embedded in a ca s e of butter from a, well-known factory, says an exchange. The inclusion of such foreign bodies in New Zealand butter is extremely rare. Nevertheless, the articles found over a period of years form a strange miscellany. A set of artificial teeth was one extracted. Then there have been thermometers, a broom handle, scrubbing brushes, chaff, and even a hammer. One one occasion some years ago mice were included in a case, and a fuss was made. No complaints have been made for a long time, end the inclusion of the copper screw, no doubt, was an accident. ■ *

Brighton up your home with some of the linoleums (new designs), shadow tissues, cushions, hearth rugs, runners, and the very newest in curtain nets, now showing at Addisons. Call and inspect.—Advt.