WAIPUKURAU

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 October 1927, Page 7

WAIPUKURAU

GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES. The annual ball recently held in the Municipal Theatre. Waipawa, in aid of funds for the District Hospital was responsible for the handsome sum, which includes Government subsidy, ol £261 16/- being netted. Local anglers were apprehensive early in the week a* to the likely conditions of the rivers as a result of the heavy rain for the opening day of the fishing season to-day, but the fine weather experienced since has resulted in the rivers becoming practically normal. The Napier Savages pay their annual visit to the Waipawa Hapu tonight (Saturday) and a treat is anticipated bv the local Savages. A full orchestra under the baton of Savage Tombs will be with the party. A largely-attended meeting of the Waipawa Progressive Association was held in the Borough Chambers on Thursday evening. The meeting was a very lengthy one and several matters of loca] interest were dealt with.

A telephone call box has been erected in a recess near the Post Office steps. When in commission it will be available continuously’. At niglii it will be lit bv electricity. A genera) meeting of the Central Hawke's Bay branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute was held in the Waipawa District High School on Thursday. Mr J. H Hill presided over a large muster of teachers and matters of special interest to the teachers were dealt with.

An old identity of the town in the person of Mrs Mitten, passed away on Friday. Mrs Mitten was conveyed to the District Hospital on Thursday afternoon. The old lady, who was 86 years of age, lived alone and had not been seen during Thursday, and acting on this Constable O’Halloi'an forced an entrance and found her lymg on the floor quite paralysed She was then taken to hospital.' The following are the vital statistics lor the district of Waipawa during the quarter ended 30th September. The figures lor the same period of last year are given in parenthesis.- Births 311 (21) mar rtages 4 (3), deaths 9 (11). Members of the Post and Telegraph staff were engaged yesterday erecting the cabinet for the slot telephone which is to stand outside the local Post Office, on the Porangahau road side. i The fishing season was opened today. when a number of enthusiastic anglers were seen in the Tuki Tuki river and other streams of the district. On Labour Day the annual competition will be held, and prizes have been allocated by the Anglers’ Club Iqr the heaviest bag, weightiest individual fish, and largest number (nine inches or over), the whole of the day’s catch to lie donated to the Hospital.

The quarterly meeting oi Arlington Rebekah Lodge was held in the Masonic Hall on Wednesday night when Sister J. R. Black, NG., presided over a large attendance of members. Seven candidates were duly initiated into the Order, and a similar number proposed for membership. After the usual business the lodge was closed and the members indulged in an appetising supper, followed by a dance. Mrs E. A. Bicknell, of Hamilton, a former Waipukurau resident, is at present visiting the town. Master Joe Hislop, a son of Mr and Mrs T. Hislop, of Otane, who had the misfortune to sustain the fracture of a thigh recently as the result of a horse he was riding bolting along Memorial Avenue, Otane, his leg coming into forceful contact with the guard of one of the trees, is making good progress towards recovery. He is an inmate of the Waipukurau Hospital The Waipukurau Co-operative Dairy Company is paying out the welcome total of £2733 17/1 to suppliers to-day, being the reward to farmers for the large percentage of superfine cream provided during the past season. By way of interest on paid-up capital, £346 17/- will be paid out at the same time, this being at the rate of 6| per cent- The bonus payment is on a basis of 1 7-10 d extra for superfine cream, and 1 l-20d for that of first-grade quality, these additions, which are independent of the fact that already Jd per lb. extra has been paid monthly for cream graded as superfine, bringing the average of all butterfat payments for the period to 1/4 per lb., and placing the local factory on the same 'plane as any other in the Dominion as to the high mark reached on this score.