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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16908, 23 March 1929, Page 6

Mr Tommy Corkill, ex-Hawke’s Bay representative, and ex-Alt Black, has taken up his residence in Masterton, and will play for Red Star seniors tins season.

Remarkably good progress with the pile-driving in the training wall gap is being made by the contractor’s stall, and it is expected that bv the middle of next week, the actual driving will ‘be completed. There is no\y le.-vs tnan a third of the gap left, and the piles were going in this morning at the rate of three or four au hour. After all‘the piling is driven, tho placing of the top slabs and pre-cast “A” frames will remain as the balance of the contract.

I Mention-was marfe early last week of the necessity of renewing some of the dredge Maui’s plates, during her overhaul in Wellington, and speculation upon the cost of the operation afforded a topic’for discussion among members of the Gisborne Harbor Board. The chairman of the board, Air. W. G. Sherratt, paid a visit to Wellington in order in confer with Marine Doi pertinent officers as to the extent'and. cost of the work, and lie found that jtho renewals concerned deck-plates, , and not a part of the hull, as was expected. Tho cost will bo moderate, and it is understood the Gisborne board’s share of the expense will not run beyond £2OO. In order that they might be entitled to vote at the municipal elections on May 1, electors whose names do not appear on the main roll will require to place their names on the supplementary electoral mil, which closes at 5 p.m. on April 3. It. is suggested that electors should avail themselves of tho opportunity to inspect the roll and ascertain whether or not "their names appear thereon.