COAST NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4815, 12 March 1918, Page 2

COAST NEWS.

WAIPIRO BAY NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WAIPIRO BAY. March 6. On Saturday last a great storm arose and at the time oi writing it still continues. The mail coach came in on Monday morning as usual, and returned as far as Te Puia, where it still remains. . Much rain lias-fallen, the .streams are still high, and there is every prospect of them remaining so. Report says there is a big slip between here- and To. Fun, and further on towards Tokomaru the road has sunk bodily in one place. On the 3rd inst. Mr and Mrs Sheen and family and Mr and Mrs Bradley left here on, their annual holfday. At Tokomaru the luggage was put safely on the launch Waima, and Mr and Mrs Bradley were lucky enough to embark on the Araliura, but the rest of the some hundred odd passengers wore left behind, either owing to the rough state of the sea or a mishap to the launch. The hotel and boarding house were lull, so that the disabilities of the East Coast arc being thoroughly realised by the unfortunate travellers. On the Ist inst. a concert --was given by the Maori Entertainers, travelling homewards from the big hui. The absence of some of the performers was apologised for by the Rev. 'F. Bennett, the reason being the inevitable break-down' of the motor car. The hall was crowded, and the price of admission, ss, must have helped to swell the prodigious amount already secured by the entertainers. The concert was much appreciated, the sixteen Maori maidens doing the poi dance, and the tissue paper kilties being really excellent items. The whole of the gross proceeds, it is understood, are used to augment the Wounded Maori Soldiers’ Fund. Mr Goffe, the Government’s Native Land Purchase agent, visited AVaipii’o on the 2Sth idt. He has been able to acquire some -1.000 cases near the Cross Roads, and purchased some 2000 acres in the Takapau estate. Air E. Erickdale, a returned soldier, well known in AVaipiro and the surrounding stations, who went to Gallipoli in the 4ths, and returned in February, 1916, having been shot through’ the ankle, has re-enlisted, passed the Medical Board, and left for camp on the 3rd inst. r l lie good wishes of his numerous friends follow him. , Mr D. A. Strachan, Inspector of Schools, visited the local school on Monday, a nd has been compelled to stay in the village owing to weather and road conditions. Ho is on his way northwards. Mr Mclntosh and friend, of Tologa, on a week-end motor trip, arc marooned here. Mr J. AVoodford reports wreckage and benzine cases on the beach in front of his house. "1 lie wreckage is charred on the inside and painted green on the outside, and is free from sea-growth.