LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1933, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

Matron Anderson of the Westland Hospital, desires to gratefully thank the following persons for their gifts for tiie Christmas cheer at the hospital. It is pleasing to know that their generosity gavei great delight and happiness to the inmates of the institution. -r-Alesdames Blank, Hart, W. Wilson, Irwin, Cagney, Langford, Sp.argo, Gj F. Schroder, Fane, Chesuev, Jlarltrop, Knights, Misses Blank Maher (lUmu), King, Schroder. Messrs S. J. Preston, Perang (lvumara), J. J. Mclntosh snr., Sellers, Newman Bros., Dewshery (Rimu), W. H. “Kumara,” “Wellwisher,” E. Tobian, W. E. Jamieson (Kokatahi), Turner and Co., Kortegast Bros,, Westland Breweries Coy., Fords Brewery Coy., and several other anonvmous friends.

By a few seecnds.a resident of Georgetown, Invercargill, last week escaped a possible! fatal injury. He had been silting on a sofa near the front window reading when lie was called to tea. No sooner had lie risen and moved away from the window a few feet than there was an explosion and a. crash of glass. A youth, playing with a rifle in the street, had discharged a bullet through the window and it had entered at the very spot where a few seconds earlier it would probably have struck the head of the inan on the sofa.

“I think that the only sound way of getting New Zealand back to prosperity is by the reduction of the burden of her national and internal indebtedness,” said Mr F. G. Payne, of London, who is visiting New Zeeland to investigate the development of alluvial mining by modern dredging, when expressing his opposition to the raising the exchange rate, in an interview at 1 . Christchurch. I feel that the higher exchange is a mistake, and that the increase in the interest charges which it involves will not ease the country’s burden.”