WAIPAWA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 19, 6 January 1920, Page 7

WAIPAWA.

' (Own. Correspondent). I ;• Steady rain iset' in at ■. Whipawa ‘ and- district on : Sunday ’• even.-ng, • and > continued , until/ nqpn on Mohday, ahtf was particularly, welcome j by fdnpers and . others. A phenom- | enal thunderstorm broke;over the town, on Friday last and the rain which continued for an hour was' the heaviest known here for many! yehrs. ' ' I Three local soldiers, who return-. ed by the Rimutuka, were met uy { the twd local bands . and a large ( crowd at the railway station on I Monday evening as the mail train, arrived and were escorted to the i Post Office where Mr. H. M. -Rathbone addressed a few words of. welcome. The men returning were Corporal L. Grant, Rifleman Bett Wheeler and L. ■ Downer. , Another returned boy, Corporal Alcrarlane of Onga Onga, also received a welcome on his way home.

A poll of ratepayers is to be taken on Wednesday, in connection with a proposal to raise a • loan to erect a morgue and a duplicate reservoir ■ both works of which are 'essential. The amount required for i the works-are £4OO and £1,600 r A-h spectively and if authorised, the * addition to the rates wjll amount tcr’the Small sum; of less than a |o. j in the £ on the unimproved value j of property. i VITAL STATISTICS. The following are;the vital statist tics for the Waipawa .Registration District for .the quarter ending De-cember-31st, 1919, and the corresponding quarter of 19181919: Births 17/ deaths 6, marriages 7 ; 1918: births 28, deaths 17, ■■ marriages I. ■