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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17608, 26 October 1931, Page 8

A start Jins been mado in clearing away the ruined and displaced roof of the members’ stand at Wingatui, states ■the Dunedin Star.. A suggestion has been tendered that in the circumstances the Dunedin Jockey Club might just square off the ragged upper work and let the stand remain roofless for a while; until racing can .be conducted without Joss. T>he one-day meeting this month caused a Joss of £3OO odd to the club, yet .the Government raked in £9OO. The funeral of Doreen Mary Hogan, the little girl who was killed in a motor accident on Friday, was held yesterday, the interment being at the Tnruheru cemetery. There was a large attendance of the child’s schoolmates and friends of the bereaved family; nearly SO cars followed the hearse ,to the cemetery. When ..the cortege left 'St. Mary’s Church .pupils of The Convent and Marist brothers’ schools preceded it ns far ns ■Feel street, where they divided and formed lines on both sides of the road. Special hymns wore sung in the church by pupils of the Marist Brothers’ 'School. The graveside service was conducted I>V Father 'Murphv, assisted by Fathers Dougherty and McMahon. The pnll-bearers were Messrs. D. and 11. bee, J’. O' Donogliue, J. Bolger, J. Fitzgerald, and D. Ravin. A suggestion that the mechanical shovel still in the possession of the Harbor Board might be converted into a dredging tool of the dipper type was made at to-day’s meeting of the board by the .chairman, Mr J. Tomhleson. Ho stated 'that the gra’b dredger now in use, in an endeavor to check the seepage of sand into the ship channel, was only partially effective, and that lie had. offered his suggestion to the engineer, Mr. C. F. Marshall Smith, as an alternative to the use of the grab. The engineer had mot received the proposal with enthusiasm, hut, consulting an engineering (firm, he (the chairman) had been informed that the conversion would not be a difficult matter, and that with a new bucket and jib, tiio steam shovel could be’ oxpected to do good work in the harbor. Mr. Toinblcson proposed that the works committee he empowered to investigate the suggestion further, and to submit a report to the hoard as early ag possible.