TOKOMARU BAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16458, 17 June 1924, Page 6

TOKOMARU BAY.

The following shows the working of the port of Tokomaru Bay for the month of May: Imports: General cargo, 200 tons; coal and coke, 7 tons; timber (native), 26 tons; hardwood, 91 tons; 177 bales of wool. Total imports for month", 397 tons. Livestock, '505 heifers landed for dairy factory at Tikitiki. Exports General cargo, 40 tons; frozen meat, 293 tons; tallow, 32 tons; 736 bales of wool • making a total of 664 tons exported during the month. The rainfall for Tokomaru Bay as recorded by the harbormaster, Captain Plummer, tor the month of May, is as follows: —Total for month, 19.24 inches; rain fell on 17 days, the heaviest being on the 18th inst., when 3.60 inches were recorded. For the corresponding period last year 9.81 inches were, registered: 42.26 inches have fallen since January, being 4.18 inches more than Ihe previous year for the corresponding period. The Gisborne Sheepfarmers’ Frozen Meat Co.’s Tokomaru Bay,works finished killing operations for the season on Monday, the 9th inst. At the monthly meeting of the committee of the Tokomaru Bay public school, the secretary was instructed' to write to the Waiapu County Council of the urgency of a bridge over the Waitekeo stream, Waima. to replace the one caried avvay by floods some time ago. The death took place at Te Puia hospital on Thursday, June 12, of Clement Ilaigh Burdett, twin son of Mr. and Mrs. Burdett, of Tokomaru Bay, aged 3 years and 3 months. He died within a. few hours of admission to the hospital, of diphtheritic croup. The body was interred at Tokomaru Bay cemetery at 2 p.m. on Friday, the Rev. J. Pigott conducting the burial service, the first part of which was held in St. Mary’s Church. Between 50 and 60 people were present, and numerous wreaths were placed ou tlie coffin, which had lain in the church overnight. Seven little boys acted as pall-bearers, their names being J. Pepper, G. Schofield. J. Burdett, I). Schofield, S. Hoi ah and O’. White. The road to the cemetery was in a bad state, and the hearse was bogged several times. The service was continued at tlie graveside, when many wreaths were placed on the grave at the yonclusion. The numerous friends of Mr. and Airs. Burdett will sympathise with them in their sail bereavement. At Tokomaru Bav, before Messrs. T. G. Buchanan and F. L. Thomas, J’s.l’., C. Leith, a Maori, was on Friday, the 13th, .sentenced to onp month’s imprisonment in Waipiro gaol for stealing a case of whisky out of the New Zealand Shipping Co.’s store at Waima, on the night of Tuesday, the 10th inst. The Tokomaru Bay public school children’s fancy dress ball was bold in the Te Puka ball on Friday night, when a large number of people were present to witness tlie children dancing, etc. The fancy dress costumes were well up to the usual average, as also was the attendance. After the children had had their fling, the adults took the floor for an hour or two.