WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17414, 12 November 1930, Page 12

WAIROA NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.)

At the Wairoa Borough Couneirs meeting, Cr. Demmell brought up the abbatoirs question, and reported on a meeting the sub-committee had with the local 1 utchers. At this meeting there was a diversity of opinion on the subject, and no real decision was reached. The Mayor stated that the difficulty in respect to the freezing works taking up the slaughtering was that they could not hold an export license and a local license also. Ho understood that it had been intended to bring in an amendment to the, slaughterhouse legislation last session, to permit the work to be carried on under the one license; he did not know whothei this had gone through, and till they received a copy of the Act (if passed) their hands were Held. It was decided to apply for a copy of the amending Act, and also to approach the Eltham Borough Council, to ascertain what ar rangements that, body had made for meat slaughtering with the Egrnont Bacon Co. Councillors all expressed themselves in favor of closer inspection and slaughtering under the best conditions, even if it- meant an increase of 2d per pound for the meat.

The mortal remains of the laio Mr. W. A. Neale were laid to rest in the Wairoa Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon in the presence'of a, large concourse of settlers representative of all sections of the community. The pall-hearers at St. Haul’s Church, where Archdeacon Butterfield officiated,' were Messrs. McLeod, W. Ryan and !). Bylord (Legion of Frontiersmen), and L. 11. Powdrill, Clyde Hill, and Captain Knight. The funeral cortege comprised 30 ears, and a large number of beautiful ween Ills were sent, as tokens of esteem, including one ol great, beauty from the Legion of Frontiersmen in the form of find, body’s badge, also one from the Waikareinonna Masonic Lodge. Mrs. E. Hague presided at the organ, and played the Dead March in “Saul as the casket was being borne from the church.

Mr. A. T. Carroll is a patient in a private hospital in Napier. At the last hospital hoard meeting he was granted leave of absence, and it was decided to send him a. letter of sympathy, with an expression of hope, for a speedy re-covery.—-’Nurse Hustwirk, of the Wairoa Hospital staff, is at present a patient in the, institution, but if. is likely that she will soon be able to resume duty.—At the Wairoa Hospital Hoard meeting leave of absence was granted to Messrs. T. Davey, chairman of the hoard, J. M. Taylor, and E. If. tilendinning on urgent private bus'/ness.—St aIT Nurse Dune and Nurse AfcElinchie, of the Wairoa Hospital, are on .holiday.

The revenue of the Wairoa 'Hospital Hoard for the past month totalled £1223 os thi, made up as follows: Patients’ fees, £391 Rs Id; capital levies, £4O las 7d; maintenance levies, £251 13s 4d: capital .subsidy, £93 11s 2d; voluntary cointHbutions, £1; bad debts recovered. £2; rents, £22 Is 8d; miscellaneous, £l4 0s Sd. The chief item of expenditure was hospital maintenance, £072 2s 9d.