WAIROA NEWS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21064, 8 April 1943, Page 4

WAIROA NEWS

Mr. T. H, Forster, stationmaster, Wairoa, who some time ago fractured au arm, has sulliciently recovered Ur resume, duty.-r-Pri-vate G. L. Newnham, a Canadian who enlisted in New Zealand and was invalided home, has been spending his leave in Wairoa as the guest of Mrs. P. (1. and tho Misses M. and N. Wilson.—Mr. Len Wyllie, Hastings, is the guest of his mother, Mrs. J-. Martin. North Clyde—Mr. "Bill” Sainsbury. sou of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Sainsbury, has secured his wings and his commission and is now on duty as mi instructor in the air force overseas. —Private Stan Kelly is spending his leave in Wairoa with his mother, Mrs. .1. Kelly.— -Lance-Corporal P. Balfour, who shortly joins the navy, was the KM.-Sk at a partv in Wairoa, and made the recipient pi a presentation. In view ol her approaching marriage, Miss V. Jolley was, tlie guest of honour at a "kitchen tea at, Tuni when site received numerous ami varied! K 'Appearing hofore Messrs. V. E. Winter and J. Corkill. .T.P’s., in Wairoa, on a charge of common assault on a iomale and. also with being drunk, I’ora Solomon, a native, was. sentenced to one month S gaol on the first charge and convicted and discharged on the second. , , A number of slmrji oarthgua ms were Mr in Wairoa yesterday. The - „ol of long duration and no damage was reported. The heaviest Idt was nL "■• 1 „.n.: it was fairly heavy for a few rora ts then continued with a slow swmgmg motion for over a minute. . ~ , using obscene language at Not lb Clyde on Monday George a ha feaste. wan fined £5 and costs, tho Ht ten i marking that he was very or turn, »«.. that, had it not been lor ‘om , h T “ nre sevetsU penalty would have been ' Messrs M J The presiding justices were Messis. M. 4. Cemmell and T. Swcetmnn.