WAIROA HEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 14

WAIROA HEWS

(Herald Correspondent.) The total amount sued for at the Magistrate’s Court on Thursday was £329 15s lOd, including £4O 7s lid on judgment summonses. The wool exported by boat from Wairoa during October and November totalled 3508 bales. In the' Magistrate's Court a Maori debtor was being examined in a maintenance case when ho stated that for three yeans in succession he had broken his leg playing football, and had not been able to work. “Are you going to play next: season?” ho was asked. “No, thank you,” was the reply. “I’ve had enough.” Air J. Blake is acting as pilot for the Wairoa Harbor Board during the illness of Captain Knight, who continues to make progress.—Air R. A. Peez, secretary of the Wairoa Hospital

Board, who has been on holiday in

Wanganui, accompanied by Mre Peez and their small son, returned on Monday night.—Airs B. O’Rourke, Who has been paying a visit to Aliss K. Sheehan, returned to Napier on Friday.—Air 8. Craig, New Zealand manager for Paramount Films, Limited, who visited Wairoa to present the shield Avon by Air Kcrridge, has gone on to Gisborne. —Mr F. Milligan, and Aliss 11. Grundy, representing Messrs. Grundy and Shennan, Gisborne, are on a business visit to Wairoa; they are staying with Mr and Airs Sproule, Queen street. —Air R. J. Kerridgc, Gisborne, visited Wairoa on Wednesday.—Air A. «T. AlcPlierson, ex-town clerk, who left here some time after tho 1931 earthquake for Dannevirke, is uoav a patient in the hospital in that town. AVar ‘njuricis trouble him a great deal.

Hitherto private electricians have not been able to compete successfully with the Wairoa Power Board, for several reasons. In the first place it was operating its sales and shoAvroom business free of the taxation which, usually falls on the private trader. In the next place the business Avas established in order to build up an electric load, and this end having been achieved tho board is offering its business by tender to the public as a going concern. Tenders close on December 10. A start line been made Avith the mowing of the sides of the back streets of the borough, but owing to tho rough state of the ground the work done is very rough. Alore than one resident has pointed out that if the side drains were filled in so as to leave a 9in. watertable instead of a ditch about 3ft. deep, and if tho sides were ploughed and levelled off from the footpath to the metal the horse moAver could keep the borough in a tidy state by tvvo days’ work each month. The same resident suggests that if this were once done by the borough the residents in each street might enter into a competition to see who could keep his area in the best order. A fcAV householders in Lucknow street are doing this, and the contrast should bo convincing. As a result of the play at the Wairoa boAvling green on Wednesday, Cullen Avon the final of the Wednesday section for the Wilson memorial rose boAvl and the J. S. AVilson buttons, and his team uoav has to play Paterson for the final. Results: —T. Bmvne, Prebblo and Cullen (s) 27 v. AV. Ebbitt, Goodley and Clark (s) 1.9. Other games played resulted: —Phelan, Rachingcr and Aloore (s) 28 v. 11. Christensen, A. B. Smith and Fletcher 19; L. Kendrew, Morris and Osier (s) 22 v. BroAvn, Sheehan and Andresen - (s) 20. The draw for the third round of the Saturday singles section is:—C. Kendrew plays Noble; 11. Christensen plays Alacdonald; Lowe plays Thco. Brown; Paterson plays Coleman. Wednesday section, singles championship:—L. Kendrew plays Yal. Brown; Rachingcr plays Clark. Tho Croquet Club competitions on Wednesday proved attractive, though the attendance was not as largo as might have been expected. The competitions resulted: — Skittles: Airs A. E. Perry. Peg croquet: Miss B. Good. French croquet: Airs 11. Waldron. Angles: Mrs J. O. Scott. Consolation: Airs AV. TL Brady and Aliss A. Ostler, tie. Aliss A. Amlreeen Avon a special competition, the prize for which aves donated by Miss Ostler.

A very enjoyable social took place in the Parish I la’ll of St. Paul’s Church on Wednesday. Vocal items A\ r ere given by Mrs j. Sutcliffe, Misses Hunt, Bain and Ridgway. Air Los Alanning gave a recitation. Tho card tournaments Avero won by the folloAving:— Bridge: Airs McTnnesnnd Mr Ate Natty. Five-hundred: Airs Burridgc and Mr L. Summerfield. Consolation prizes were awarded to Mesdames 11. O’Loughlin, Al. ITannam, and T. French, and Mr AtcTnnes. Air 11. Corslcio was presented Avith a silver cigarette box as a mark of appreciation of his management of the series of socials. Airs B. Moles was also tendered a presentation of a crystal dish. Tho presentation to Mrs Aides was made by Archdeacon and Mrs Butterfield as n slight recognition of the good work done by her for the church, the archdeacon paying a high tribute to Airs Aides for her services.

Air Cecil Perkins, who has been spending a holiday with his mother, Airs A. Perkins Marino Parade, returned to Auckland on Friday. He Avas accompanied by his sister, Aliss Aland Perkins.

There \yas a large attendance at the Gaiety Theatre on Wednesday night, when the Paramount Shield won by the theatre management Avas handed over by Mr. S. Craig. The Mayor, Air. H. L. Harker, in introducing Air. Craig to tho audience, congratulated Air. Kcrridge on winning this;' handsome shield. Air. Kerridge traced the history of tho shield and said it was partly due to the energy and kindness of the Mayor, councillors and tradespeople that tho shield was won by Wairoa

Tho weal her conditions being good on Saturday there was a large attendance at tho tennis courts, and good play was witnessed in the semi-finals of tho doubles, Mesdames Gold stone and Jardino defeating Misses Sunderland and La ne. Cowan and Moody defeated Grant and Withers. The best lady olayers this season are Mesdames Goldstone and .Tardinc, and Misses Scott. Ross, Bain, Sunderland, Lane and Green. It. Mclntyre, who lias been top of the ladder, is challenged by Cowan, and the contest will be worth watching. The following is the draw for the men’s singles, with the handicaps:—Mclntyre (o 30) v. Withers (o 15); McDonald fser.) v. Mowat (1.5); Goldstone (15) v. Thompson (15); Corskie (30) v. Fyson (sir.): Rradv (scr.) v. Gooff. Winter (15): Baird (15) v. T). Lane (15) ; Moody (o 15) v. Y. Lane (scr.); Grant (o. 15) v. Graham Winter (30): Rerrv (o 15) v. Hudson (scr.) ■ Y. Winter (30) v. IT. Lane (15) ; Mnrbrook (15) v. Roach (scr.): Hawke (scr.) v. Butcher (scr.); Barrett (15) v. Reynolds (o 15) ; Jardiue (scr.) v. Bussell (scr.)'; Cowan (o 30) v. Foot (15). There passed away in Napier on Tuesdav night another of the pioneers of old Wairoa in tho person of Mrs. Ida »>,itler. who reside! with her mother, Mrs Jane White (a sister of the late Sir ,Ta mes Carroll), at 25 Kennedy road, i Napier. The deceased, who was the eldest of tho family of the late Mr. Robert White, postmaster at Wairoa in

the early seventies, and of Mrs. Jane White, who is now very advanced in years, was born in Wairoa 59 years ago. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Carroll, of Huramua station, attended the funeral on Thursday, and to tho bereaved mother and other relatives tho sympathy of a large circle of the older generation in Wairoa is being extended.