WAIPUKURAU

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 305, 9 December 1931, Page 4

WAIPUKURAU

NEWS AND NOTES. (Special Representative.) Mr and Mrs W. W. Jamieson left yesterday morning by train for Wellington. Mr and Mrs R. Hughes, who have been visiting Waipukurau, have returned to Wanganui. Miss Morrah, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs P. Hunter, Porangahau, returned to Wellington yesterday. Mr A. Kinghorn, of Dannevirke, who has been seriously ill in the Waipukurau Hospital, is making satisfactory progress. Mr P. G. Lewis, one of the Education Department’s school • inspectors, was in Waipukurau on Monday, when he carried out the proficiency examination in the primary department of the Waipukurau Public School. At the monthly meeting of the Patangata County Council yesterday, Mr A. Robottom, Otane, was nominated for re-appointment as the council’s delegate on tho Howard Estate Advisory Board. The winner of the competition for a doll’s bed and duchesse, held in conjunction with the very successful garden fete held on Saturday last at Porangahau, and which was organised by the ladies’ guild in aid of the church funds, was Mr J. O’Reilly. 1 “If we show any sign of weakness, they’ll ail flop on us,, but at the same time, we want to be just,” said Cr. R. H. White, at the meeting of the Patangata County Council yesterday, when a ratepayer’s application for a rebate on rent was being considered.