WAIAPU NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14075, 19 August 1916, Page 8

WAIAPU NEWS.

(Special Cor - espoiident-v) . - . ' . - ' TIK ITI K I , ' Augiist ' 15. • Tho Waiapu. 's again ..running <: yery,,. high, as the result of a torrential dowivpour, comriiencing on Saturday everiihg,'' and which continued Jfor twenty-four hours. ' • ' A fcnthall niateh,be;t\vQen teaniii reprer renting; tlie Port Awaniii" and' 'Ttkitiki' districts will bo played . at the. Latter place on Thursday afterpooii; August 24-; . A collection wiL be. taken ( up . on the, ground, and proceeds will be handed -fo 1 one of the various patriotic funds. Rumor : suggests that Mr D. W. Duff, of the Wose hotel, Port Awanui, will 'ofßciatfe' as referee. „, „-•.' „ „r . „ ..." . A start was made b'\' W'"h, J. Wills, of the Public- Works Department, Ois- ' borne, 611 ' ail ;ad ditidilal room at ' the Native school, Tiki tiki. He expects t6 have the work completed iri the course of two or three weeks. '.• . . .;' -■ Constable Murray;" of Auckland, annvcd at Te Araroa last Saturday, and a-, temporary office is being erected for hirii on the .police Reserve by Mr' Hansen. , • The stables at Tikitiki, which. 3iave for some t hue bkm under ' the •of Mi- Frank Manuel, were last week taken oyer, by., Mr James Agnew, who until quite recently was on the,- staff of the.Wcvipiro Trading Company, LtdL __ Theio is veiy*lirae^"i;6:'re'porVih''sHip-' pirig ci rcles at" Pott;' tAwari'Ui' j> at ; present. The Kahu, bound' for, Auckland,, worked on Friday last* but the Mstko, which was due on Sunday, h-aa not yet put m an a p ped ranee.— 'Correspondent.