WAIROA PERSONALS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20618, 20 November 1941, Page 3

WAIROA PERSONALS

(H«—aid CorreHpondent.) Mr. E. L. Cullen, M.P., accompanied by Mrs. Cullen, will visit Wairoa on Friday and spend the week-end |at Nuhaka.—The Mayor of Wairoa, Mr. TT. E. Hanker,, .left yesterday, to .-attend to Patriotic Fund Board business fir. Wellington.—Mr. It. Coe, Central Hawke's Bay, has'Been visiting friends and relatives in Wairoa. On receipt of news of the death, while a prisoner of war, of LandeCorporal Ronald B. McCann, fittiju 'tributes to his memory were paid b: the pupils of the Wairoa District Hign School, where he had been an assistant master for 18 months. The flag was lowered to half-mast and the headmaster, Mr. O. H. E. Yates, gave a brief address. No games were played at the school during the dayThe Wairoa County Council, at fty. meeting yesterdty, passed the following motion: “That this council deeply, regrets to record the death of Mr. William Tait, of Morere, councillor for the Nuhaka riding, and extends to the members of his family and relatives the sincerest sympathy in their bereavement. Further, the council, places on record its high appreciation of the public service rendered the Wairoa County and ratepayers during the long term he was associated with county administration in the capacity of councillor and chairman."