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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16927, 16 April 1929, Page 8

The running of the trains on the Gisborne section for the four-weekly period ended March 2 resulted in total earnings of £3506, which represented an increase upon the revenue for the corresponding period of last year of £351. The increase was made up of £73 more for passengers, £2 for parcels, and £2S3 foi goods, while labor and demurrage showed a decrease of £7. The traffic re turns for the four weeks, with the figure.' for the corresponding period in 19$ given in parentheses, weiio : Passengers 5925 (4682); stock. 21.647 head (32,039): goods, 5834 tons (3771). The .expenditure for the period totalled £3155, com pared with £32C2 last year. The funderal of the late Mrs. A. W. Kirk, wife of Mr. A. W. Kirk, t'hainuai. of, the Waia.pu. County Council, took place on Sunday afternoon at Ruatoria Weather conditions made travelling verj difficult, though the large number 6 people present and the many beam if u floral emblems testified to the groa esteem in which the deceased was held throughout the district. The Rev. Pihc Tamahori conducted the service, and made feeling reference to the late Mrs. Kirk's kindness and sympathy to the re sklents of the district where she had lived for many years, and by whom sin would be, remembered with affection The deceased is survived by her bus baud, one son, Mr. Arthur Kirk. o. Auckland ; a daughter, Mrs. S. Windsor, of Te Pauroa : also her mother, 'brother, and sister.