WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17413, 11 November 1930, Page 10

WAIROA NEWS

(Horald Correspondent.) • Th© Wairoa Power Board’s revenue for the past month totalled £3456 16a 7a, made up as follows: Cash sales, £l7 11s sd; exchange, Is 9d; commission on sales, £3; advances to consumers repaid, £147 Is 2d ; interest on . advances, £l6 11s 8d; goods, services and motor power, £1929 5s lid; retail consumers, £834 11s 8d; Black’s-Waikokopu extension, £489 Tho Rev. T. Speer, 8.A., was the officiating minister at a wedding which took place last Wednesday at the residence of Mr. H. Chase, North Clyde. Tiie contracting parties were Miss- Naomi Chase,' third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. phase, North Clyde, and Mr. Robert Boggs, late of Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Tho bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. H. G. Chase, was attired in a frock of pink crepe do faille, with picture hat, shoes and hose to tone. Miss Barnes was. bridesmaid, and wore a frock of floral crepe de chine. Both carried preUy bouquets of roses and maidenhair fern. At tho reception the usual congratulatory speeches were made, testifying to the esteem in which tiie young people were held. Constable Stanilands, of JNuhaka, who lias been a patient in the Wairoa .Hospital', was discharged on Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. ft. 11. Smith, of Paliiatua, are on a visit to Wairoa. —Mr. Claud Sainsibury’s many friends here and in Napier and Gisborne will regret to hear that he has had to enter the local hospital, and all wish him.a speedy recovery. In the Wairoa Police 001111, on Saturday before Messrs. Oorkill and Harker, J’s.P,, Ihaka Chapman was fined £1 for using obscene language. Visitors to the Wairoa cemetery on Sunday were much impressed by the fine work carried out by a small contingent of unemployed returned soldiers recently. The sacred enclosure, instead of being an eyesbro, as in the past, is now looking better than it lias been for years. Tho great thing now is to keep it so. In the Hopper Shield cricket competition Waihua continued their first innings, making the total 99 (Bigg not out 46£ Tn the second innings they made 78 (Thompson 43). Waipapa made 109 in the first innings (Mackie 31), and in tho second innings 151, (Mackie 53). Waipapa won. In the match P.W.D. v. City, the latter made 142 (Millar 58). In the second innings the score was 142 (Macdonald not out 65). P.W.D. made 160 in the first innings (Reeves 58). In tho second innings 27 runs were scored for the loss, of two wickets. Patrol-leader James Brownlie is now in charge of the Frascrtown scouts, and several innovations will be shortly put into effect.

There was a good attendance on the Wairoa bowling green. on Saturday, when the following games were played: Fraser, Keating, McGoldriclt and Tlieo. Frown 27 v. Dillon, Archibald,' Noble, and Taylor 10; Ilill, IJalpin, Rutherford and Craig 22 v, Andresen, Kendrew, Popple, and Sandilands 14; Browne, Osier and Macdonald 19 v. Lyall, Paterson, and Wilson 18.