WAIROA NOTES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 12

WAIROA NOTES

(Special to the Herald.) WAIROA, this day. In order to take advantage of the passing season the Wairoa County Council has sown a quantity of pine seeds on the Mahia sand hills, a considerable area of which is about to be vested in the council for public purposes. As land it is worthless, hut, planted in trees it will he an addi--1 ion to Du'.scenic aspect of the Opoulama district, and slop the invasion of clear lands by Die drifting sands. At l ijo la*t moment, owing to domestic afflictions in one family and other hi nil ranees in another case, the ladies’ hockey team was deprived of tlie four best players, and the learn fell before Die redoubt able Ruahine club a t Daunevirke bv four goals to nil. The fishing season does not open here till November .1 —the day of the county jubilee. Followers of the calling of Izac.k Walton should find the fish, by then, in very good condition. Some days ago the ranger (Mr. Keane) liberated 150,000 rainbow trout in the Wnikaretaheke. Lake AVaikaremaonn, Waiau and liuukituri, and over 2.0,000 in the locality of To Beluga Palls. Wuihi, Mnnga-a-rtihe, and streams at Mangnpoike near Mr. J. Cork ill’s properly. Mr. Tt. McPlmil’s tender for the lease of the Kupcngn racecourse has been accepted by the County Racing Club, and the prospects of the coming season arc bright. Mr, D. Glengarry is the accepted tenderer at £IOBS for the erection in concrete of a (ire brigade station in Lucknow street. The work is to he commenced almost immediately. Mr. 'Marshall, the business agent of the N.Z. Government railway's department. is to meet the settlers oil Friday 'and will discusse the muchvexed question of railway freights between Wairoa and Waikokopu. Eliminating the lines on which the charges are reasonable, it ought to he possible to arrive at a satisfactory settlement of the question at issue. The movement to hold a “brighter Wairoa. Week” is growing, and the business people are becoming very interested, and in combination with the county’s effort ou November 1 it should be a success. A meeting is to M held'almost at once to finalise the arrangements'. So far only a tentative programme has been put forth, but it promises to bo very attractive. Mr. \V. A. Porter, of the Morero Home Mission charge, is at present attending the summer school at Wanganui. It is reported that Mr. Matthew*, formerly in business in Wairoa. is returning to resume his old-time trade of butchering. The Rev. Mr. Laughton, of the Urowora Presbyterian Mission, is relieving a I Nuliaka, Sister May having had to go to Palmerston North to uudergo an operation there. At the opening shoot of the Nuliaka, Rifle (’lull on Saturday, the, scores

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