WAIROA (Hawke's Bay).

Otago Witness, Issue 3443, 9 March 1920, Page 27

WAIROA (Hawke's Bay).

March 3.—Last week end Wairoa was the scene of a very important conference, when representatives from all the local bodies of Northern Hawke's Bay, Wairoa, and Gisborne districts met to formulate demands for the prosecution of the Lake Waikaremoana hydro-electric scheme. Mr J. Corkill (mayor of Wairoa), who presided, said that Wairoa was tired of the delay and was quite ready to go alone; but she would more willingly join in a general scheme provided time was not wasted. The result of the conference was a demand on the Government to proceed immediately with the scheme; and to stress the resolution a. deputation o£ 14, thoroughly representative of the Hawke's Bay and East Coasts districts, was appointed to proceed to Napier and lay the districts' needs before the Prime Minister. After the conference a number of the delegates pro-

oeeded tq Lake Waikairemoan& to obtain oS first" hand some more definite idea of the scope ana possibilities, as wall as of the difficulties of the proposed work. Death.—The death of Mr Albert' Mackenzie, eon of Mrs Mackenzie," of King street, Wairoa, had some specially sad features. He was a returned soldier who 1 had been wounded" and gassed; his return was for some time quite an invalid. Then ho improved, went into country work; but more recently got a chill on his lungd, which resulted fn his death. His body was. taken out by an evening boat to Napier, to bo buried there in the Parke Island Cemetery.