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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1933, Page 4

A reminder is .given of the dance to be he’d on Wednesday evening in aid of the hall fund in the Public Hall Kokatahi.

A grand dance will be held in St. Mary's Club rooms -next Wednesday evening, modern and old time dancing. Music will be supplied by Miss G. Jacobs and Mr T. Seddon. Supper provided.

The gas-cooking demonstration will be continued at the Soldiers’ Hall to-morrow afternoon at 2.30 o’clock by Mrs G. Heinz. The following will be included in the demonstration: — mincemeat squares, stuffed monkeys, orange cake, pineapple geriis, scones.

The weekly euchre tournament will be held this evening commencing at 8 o’clock at the District High School. First prize, pair double bed blankets; lucky table prize, and oth e, i prizes. Admission Is.—-Advt.

A largo amount of general damage was done to'the county roads by Saturday’s flood by scours. Some small culverts wore also washed out, liepairs where urgent were put in hand yesterday and are being continued today. The cost of repairs in the Central Riding will be abopt £l5O.

R.S.A. Euchre. Soldiers Hall, tomorrow (Tuesday) July 18th at eight o’clock, Ist. prize, 701 b. bag of sugar, 251 b. of flour and 51b. of butter; 2nd. prize, 51b. tea; 3rd. prize, 501 b. bag of flour; 4th. prize, Gib. butter. Gooa prizes. Admission 2s.—Advt. •

The executive of the Canterbury district council of the Workers’ Educational Association has recommended that an endeavour should be made to organise a trip to the Franz Josef hostel during the week-end in which Labour Day occurs. A. four-day trip is contemplated, from October 21 to 24, which will permit two cleai days being spent at the hostel. An effort will be made to get through to the Franz Josef in one day. Those. who cake the trip will travel by rail to Otira and will complete the journey by motor-buses. The trip will eventuate if not fewer than 20 students signify their willingness to make up a party.

Reference to Lady Bledisloe’s Welsh ancestry was made by Mr A. Rosser, president of the Auckland Justices of the Peace Association, at the annual social last week. “I wag born at Mumbles, near Swansea,” said Mr Rosser, “and I understand Her Excellency was born only three miles ■away. Of my Welsh birth I was always prou«, but my pride is the greater that Her Excellency is a Welsh-born lady.” Lord BleAsloe, replying said: “When Sir Rosser admitted he was a Welshman and began to compare birth certificates with bis fellowcountrywoman from the parish of Mumbles, I thought he ought to have addressed you in Welsh and had Her Excellency reply.”

Mr Charles Allen, a son of Sir James Allen, had the end of the middle finger of hs right hand lacerated and several fingers injured as a result of an accident on Saturday at Dunedin. Mr Allen, who is blind, was accompanied by a boy. He stepped off a footpath to cross the street, but the boy apparently saw a motor lorry (approaching at a slow pace and pulled Mr Allen hack. The latter evidently caught his heel on the kerb mg at the 'vice cf the footpath and put out his right hand in order to gave himself from falling. Al 3he grabbed a post the motor lorry struck it, with, the result that Air Allen’s middle finger was severed at the first joint. Mr Allen is a well known contributor to the new-papers and need the injured fingers for typing.

A notice of thanks from the Fire Brigade appears in this issue.

Schroder’s Factory stock of lovely knitted jumpers and cardigans selling freely from 9s lid each—Advt.

A reminder is given of the meeting of ladies in connection with the Hospital ball, to be held in the Board rooms to-night at 7 o’clock.

The Te Aroha which had been in the roadstead for the previous two days and was driven south came back to the roadstead yesterday afternoon and crossed the bar about 4 o’clock. The vessel will load a cargo of timber for Wellington.

Undoubtedly one of the attractions at the forthcoming Poultry Show will lie the knitting section. Knitting has come into vogue with increased enthusiasm and ie a favourite- as well as being an industrious occupation, and the extent to which it has been taken up locally is reflected in the entries for the show, which now well exceed one hundred, the articles to he exhibited being in a wide and attractive variety of patterns.

There is being shown -at present in Wellington a display of about forty pictures, the work -of the 1-ate Mrs Greening, formerly llhona Hazard, of Hokitika. The late Mrs Gieeiling was a pupil of Mr Hugh Scott, artist, and received her ‘ early tuition In Hokitika. Her father was a former Commiesioner of Crown Lands for. Westland. The display of pictures has attracted a great deal of attention at both Auckland and Wellington. Unfortunately Mrs Greening met with a fatal accident while on a sketching tour of Egypt.

“I am going to take a long shot and prophesy that in 10 years there will be only one county council in New Zealand, and that will be the Main Highways Board,” said the president, Mr F. W. Johnston, at a meeting of the executive of the South Island Motor Union, last evening. Mr Johnston later qualified this by saying that he meant one county council only so far as main roads were concerned, and that other roads and domestic matters would have to be controlled by the present c-ounty councils or road boards.

A gruesome ’find, of a human leg, intact from the hip down, in a fair state of preservation, was made by a young man, Mr. T. Mclntyre, of Cobden, yesterday morning on the little beach just inside Hie north breakwater, and it is now in tire Greymouth morgue. It will be difficult to identify the member, as several bodies are missing in West Coast waters, but none recently. it seems likely that it may belong to the late Charles McAnulty, who was drowned with J Nordstrom off tlie Blaketown beach, last summer.

Mb's t>, K, Bray, daughter of Mr \V. Bray, a former resident - of Hokitika when manager of N.Z.C.F, branch here, has been unanimously appointed secretary of the Wellington Racing Club Miss Bray’s appointment was announced after the running of the Winter Oats Handicap at Trentliam on Saturday. She has been acting-secre-tary to the club for gome time past, and it was considered by club officials that no one could better fill the permanent position of secretary. It is understood that Miss Bray is the first woman in the world to have been appointed secretary to a racing or trotting club. She wa,s the recipient of many co n grat ulatii ns.

Kaiapoi all-wool lumber jackets usually 19s 6d, Schroder’s clear 6 only at 7s 6d each,—Advt.

West Coasters will he interested in the success one of the number, Mr M. P. S. Byrne, is meeting with on the stage in England. For the past three years lie has been in London studying as a ’cellist, but recently turned his attention to the stage. He was engaged for small parts in Oscar Asehe’s Shakespearean Company. On the termination of the tour he was engaged by the Greater London Players, and appeared in good parts in several productions before beginning rehearsals in Oscar Asche’s revival of “Chu Chin Chow.” Mr Byrne is a son of the late Mr T. V. Byrne, solicitor of Kumara, and one time Mayor of that town and County Chairman. His sisters are Mrs W. Coburn, of Marsden and Mrs G. H. Chapman, of Ross.