WAIROA NEWS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21816, 12 September 1945, Page 2

WAIROA NEWS

By running out tho winners over Waiau by nine points to six, Tapuao annexed the junior championship in tho Wairoa Rugby Sub-Union's competition. Tho function arranged by the Wairoa Chinese in aid of tho .210,000 appeal for the It.S.A., resulted in a profit of approximately £SO being liandod over to the executive. Itangi Ehu nppearod before Mr. J. " R. Gillespie at the Wairoa Police Court on Saturday charged with unlawful carnhl knowledge of a young girl. On the application of Sergeant W. R. Miller, the defendant was remanded until September 14. Tho Inquost on the late Thomas Rivers, who was found doad on the roadside at Mnngnpolko, Wairoa, was opened before Mr. V. E. Winter, J.P.,' district coroner, on Saturday morning, and after hearing evidence of identification liy Vincent Fraser, and the evidence o Constable Q, Tomlinson, who brought tho body into Wairoa, it was adjourned sine die, At the annual meeting of the Wairoa A. and P. Society Mr. H. Bayly was reelected president, as was Mr. W. Torbott, vice-president, and Mr. W. A. Crarsr, lion treasurer.

A motion of sympathy with Mr. D. 11. Withers, secretary, and wishing him a npcedy return to health, was passed at tho annual meeting of fhe Wairoa A. and P. Society. Mr. Withers was also congratulated on ids excellent services and the splendid manner in which he had produced the balance sheet.

Letters of sympathy are to be forwarded to the Poverty Bay A. and I’. Society and the relatives of the late Mr. Henry Tucker, in the great loss sustained pi his death, tlie president of the Wairoa society, Mr. HBayly, remarking that Mr. Tucker had proved a tower of strength to the Gisborne organisation, being most generous in his donations towards tho progress of agriculture and pastoral activities. Mr. .1. M. Taylor, chairman of the Wairoa Hospital Board, is a patient in tho Wairoa Hospital.