WAIROA NOTES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16579, 7 November 1924, Page 8

WAIROA NOTES.

(Special to the Herald.) WAIROA, last night. The s.s. ivoutumu at the week-end worked 111® AAtaikpkopa port, landing general cargo at the new wharf- There are indications that the port will become fairly busy as the shearing season advu nccs.

Tim continual sporadic rainfalls ore. partly responsible for the paucity of catches at the Lake and Waikare-Taheko bv the followers of Izauk Walton. The fish,, even for this time of the year, are not in the pink of condition, bat both those disabilities will disapear as the season advances. It seems to be as-' “tired that the authorities should lake definite stops to introduce trout food into the Lake'.

•‘Prophets” have ever been the bailo uf the Maori from the days of Ho'ropapara and Te Ua to Te Ivooti, To TVlijti, and l'ito Poipoi, of Malik. Probably the latest “prophet,’’ a mere: boy, will do much less harm than any of those mentioned. His main delusion is a mission to locate certain treasure alleged to have been hidden in the Lake region by Te Ivooti when the pakeha. soldiers were hot on his trail. Some money was found, but practically useless, having been burned during some religious sacrifices- A similar find was made at Whataroa some years ago, the coins being also charred. They had some tiling to do with a proposal to build a large Haiihau temple at Whakaki for tho cult of Te Ringtu. Silence for the space of two minutes vyill be observed at 11 a.m. on Tuesday liext, the 11th inst., in memory of. those who fell in the great war, which ended at the hour of 11 on the day to be observed.

,The Te Aroha brought from, Gisborne 37.000 feet of- timber. The outward cargo comprised 336 boxes of butter from the Witifoa dairy factory and 168 bales of wool.

The boys of the town, celebrated the anniversary of Gunpowder Plot in the usual manner on Wednesday night, mainly by exploding crackers ana rockets. Bonfires were a negligible quantity, lire wood being a . rather scarce commodity.

The Scottish Society gathering took the form of a Hallowe’en niclit, the young people being specially catered for. They got, the most they could out of tlve gathering and went home in a happy frame of mind.

The following testimony to the deceased son of Mr. and Airs. Kirk, of Nuhaka. may be some small comfort to the bereaved parents- It occurs in a. private letter by one of the lad’s mates at the Napier High School: “It was only at about 3.30 p.m. that the whole house was overclouded with gloom, for it was only then that we heard that. one. of the best-liked, most popular, and largehearted chaps in the house, even perhaps in the whole school, had died of appendicitis in the Napier hospital. Really, it was just us if a. huge black cloud had been thrown over the whole place and tangled us in its folds. Even at tea that night there was hardly a, word spoken, as we wore too depressed and wrapped in our thoughts even to eat. The chap to whom I refer is a Wairoa hoy. Matt. Kirk, from Nuhaka. I can only just imagine how Mrs". Kirk must. fee{ it, as 1 know site thought, the world of. him. It. seems to all of us as if there has come a great gap in our school .which we shall never be able to replace, for nowhere could there he found a chap who was even half (lie chap Matt. Kirk was. The house seems empty, dull, and dreary without old Kirk's grin and cheery face. ...”

Captain and Airs. .1. Mitchell,, host and hostess till recently of the. Clyde hotel, have, left for Wellington. Inspector Winehoombe, of the Public Trust Offie<s, after transacting departmental business here, went on to Gisborne on Wednesday. The mortal remains of the late Thomas McKee, of Nuhaka, were laid to rest in the Wairoa cemetery on Wednesday. The Rev. Mr. Shannon, of Gisborne, who was formerly associated with the deceased as pastor of Morere charge, officiated .at thr* graveside.