VANDALISM AT CEMETERY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23310, 20 July 1950, Page 6

VANDALISM AT CEMETERY

WAIROA NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.)

Vandalism at the Wairoa Cemetery, [escribed as “ghoulish” "melancholic” and “sadistic.” was discussed by the Wairoa Borough Council at its meeting this week. Mr. L. E. Galbraith said that glass coverings of wreaths and vases which had been placed on graves had been broken by stones. “Aopparentlv youths have been very busy,” said the councillor, “and have fired stones into the glass cases, breaking at least 70 or 80 per cent, of them: in fact, last Sunday it was verv difficult to find, one that was not broken It. c oerns a verv retrograde moral step end from our nntnt of view the damage is done and T don’t know what we ran do about it ”

The Mavor. Mr. C. V. Chamberlain, said if was a very «boulish thing to dn . Thp eomnlaint had been tak°n uo with th n noliee and be belWed that it a’so should be taken uo w : fh sebnol masters in n’-’er fo have (he matter massed on to the pupils. New Ru'idine- in Wairoa

The highest cost of a new dwellin'* in w-jjron fo far thise v«ar has been fwonn and the lowest £BOO. This was ehown in a report ta Mn d at the meet ; .w 0 r the Wruroe Borough Council I,T ith ihe erection of five new dwellings. ATnv was a record men*'* bujjHjng permits jesiJpd Mailin'* m vahl" Last month tb«v f' ) acs and for the nn.ertoi* en-l-..| J U ne gf) nej-rnjfr '■sued tolelleg dfi fi'l7. Wor fho firs* *hree r-’e-iths of the vear thev came *e £10.284.

re(i(>„« n f | arl f ear! At the Wairoa Borough Council meeting l» was stated that no objection had been reenj vr to co „ n eirs proposed €IO.OOO water reticulation loan and it was decided f 0 make applieatton to tb° 1..0",ai Government Loans Hoard M permission to r eM the loan. Th n Mavor, Mr. C. V Chamberlain. "ommenfed that bn honed |t wou’d not be too lone before everyone In the borough had a pood wafe r simply Sfwcrne-e Ryetem Fer Wa'-oa

Another rta'rfo has almost been reached in the construction of Wn Iron's sewerage svstern A brie' statement AO seweraeo r - o r--e<.<; bv boroijph npr'a-o'. M r . F. to *he council said that the contractor “has advised be evneet, to r orue-eneo bnildm" the onmnioc stat'ons earlv in August” "Great Toss to Fart Coast" Mie death of Rir Aoir.am Np.nfa. M.L.C.. referred t 0 at the meeting of th” Wairoa Bowueh Council, when the Mavor. Mr. C V Chamberlain, raid h<s death was a great loss to the Fas* Cons* and. indeed to the whole of New Zealand. The rounril Is to eonvov its deepest and sinecrest svmnathy fo the relatives V Sir Apirana. and as a mark of resnect those nrr ?nt at the meeting stood in silence.