NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 5 August 1941, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Wairoa Druids’ Ball The Druids’ ball, held in Wairoa last night, netted £125 for the patriotic funds, proving the most successful social event for many years.—Special. Minor Cloud-bursts Spells of rain which, at times, approximated miniature cloud-bursts, fell in Wairoa throughout Sunday night and were accompanied by unusually strong gusts of wind. No railway or road damage was reported yesterday.—Special.

Helping Themselves ' A Company, Wairoa .Home Guard, netted £32 from a social and dance held in the Taihoa Hall the evening following on a “Paddy’s market”'during the day. At the social evening opportunity was taken to farewell Sergeant R. McGregor, who shortly will be going away. —Special. Inter-School Games in Wairoa Two teams from the Gisborne High School, the basketball A team and the second Rugby fifteen, travelled to Wairoa on Saturday to play their annual matches there against teams representing the Wairoa District High School. Both teams won the matches they played, the Rugby team winning by 20 points to five in a more even game than was indicated by the score The basketball team played two games against teams from the Wairoa High School, winning both matches, the first by 19 goals to four and the second by 17 goals to one. Caught Red-handed Following a complaint to the police, Tom Parata Nepia, aged 19, Nuhaka appeared before Messrs. J. Corkill and M. J. Gemmell, J.Ps., in the Wairoa Police Court yesterday, charged with the theft of £3 in cash from Elsie Loader. He was also charged with drunkenness. Sergeant L. T. Moore told the court that Nepia went to a shop in Nuhaka, leaned over the counter and extracted cash from the till. Then he caught a bus to Wairoa and spent the money in hotels. In the evening he was caught at the shop trying to repeat the performance. He had 15s 4d left. Nepia was admitted to probation for 12 months, a condition being that he refrain from going into billiard rooms or taking liquor—Special. “Most Abusive” “This was the most abusive man I have ever had in a police cell,” was the way Sergeant L. T. Moore described Bruce Simpson when Simpson appeared in the Wairoa Police Court yesterday "before Messrs. ,J. Corkill and M. J. Gemmell, J.Ps., charged with being drunk and with casting offensive matter in Marine parade. On the drunkenness charge Simpson was convicted and discharged, and he was fined £3 on the second charge. For obstructing the police, William Leslie Salter was convicted and fined £5. The two eases arose from the same set of circumstances and followed an argument in a restaurant in Marine parade on Saturday afternoon. Salter, according to the sergeant, tried to persuade the police to release Simpson, who was arrested, and persisted even after being warned Special.