WAIROA (Hawke’s Bay).

Otago Witness, Issue 3338, 6 March 1918, Page 23

WAIROA (Hawke’s Bay).

February 23.—1 had the privilege of a thorough inspection of the freezing works lately, and one of the most notable points was the almost empty condition of the cold stores. Although additional cold storage is being erected, the Wairoa Company was fortunate- in being able to get rid of the whole- of last season’s accumulation of carcases, as well as of a considerable portion of this season’s output. The works at present are also the only means of obtaining meat for local consumption, as all our loc*l butchers have closed down, the health authorities having condemned both shops and slaughter yards. As the works are a mile or so out of town, the problem of getting the daily meat is a serious one. Electric Power. —Owing to the Government having turned down their promise to give Lake Waikaremoana the priority in establishing power stations in the North Island a' league has been formed to give our scheme due prominence. One of the league’s, purposes' is to invite all local bodies in the surrounding districts, and as many M.P.’s as can accept their invitation to ioin. in a monster “joy-ride” through Wairoa, up to Waikaremoana. and through' to Rotorua. This is to take place early in March, and the league are asking for 20 motor oars for the trip. Personal.-—The late clerk of the Dunedin Drainage Board, Mr Esther, has arrived from Whangarei, where he has been settled for some time, to take over the duties of clerk to the Wairoa Harbour Board. Mr and Mrs David Bowie, who had been visiting Mr-Bowie’s brother, the head master of the Wairoa District High School, are at present visiting friends' l in the Waipukurau district, after which they proceed through to Feilding and Wanganui. Corporal Gladstone Wilson, who was badly knocked about at Messines, has arrived home after a protracted period in hospital. Considering his wounds and the loss of an eye, he looks wonderfully well. Privates J. S. Gilligan and Pat Konuke, ex-pupils of the District School, are reported seriously ill in France; the former being on the dangerously wounded list. One of the older Wairoa residents has lately passed away in the nerson jj£- Mrs Gardiner, of Frasertown, who for many years was head teacher of the Wairoa, and. at a later period, of the Frasertown District School. A very large number -of Wairoa and Frasertown residents have kindly remembrances of Mrs Gosncll, as she then was. who proved herself a capable and strict teacher.