WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 12

WAIROA NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.) The weather still continues good for the shearing and for hay-making operations The gardens are not suffering to any extent for lack of rain, and many of them are a pleasing sight just now. The local unemployed, especially, au, doing well in the way of growing'vegetables for their own use, and it is bait to sav that it is many years since gardening activities were so pronounced. Mr D. Prvde has given notice to move at next meeting of the Power Board to rescind a resolution fixing the commencing hour for Sunday shutdowns at 1p m. and to extend it to 2 p.m. Ihe change is necessary to enable the dairy factory to complete its pasteurising on these days. The new hour will suit the average householder, but in all probability there will be occasions when the milking sheds may not get power at the regular time. The board’s_ engineer has given the opinion that it is almost impossible to estimate how long a rejuiir job inav take until the wiring is opened

Next week will be a 'busy one with the Wairoa local bodies, being the last meetings of 1932, unless special meetings are held. The Power Hoard meets on Monday at 11 a.m., the Borough Council the same day at 7.30 p.m., and a special meeting the following Monday. Ibe Harbor Board meets on r J uesduv at 10 a.m., and the Hospital Board at 1 p.m. The County Council meets at 10 u.m. on Wednesday. I)r. Shore, of the. Health Department, who was to visit Wairoa to confer with the Hospital Board in various matters next week, Ims had to postpone the visit until a future occasion. Mr. D. Withers, of the staff of the local branch of the New Zealand Loan ind Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has received notice of transfer to Hastings as sales manager for tyres. Mr. Withers is vice-president of tin; Chamber of Commerce, and a capable secretary to the Coif Club. lie leaves on Sunday for bis new sphere of duty.— Misses I!. Smith and Telford arrived on Saturday from the Wellington '1 raining College for the Christmas vacation. — Miss Edna Crarer, of the Wellington General Post Office and formerly of the Wairoa telephone exchange, is here on holiday; she is staying with Mrs. 11. d. Mackay, Black street. —Mr. It. S. Paterson, of the legal firm of Messrs. Sandenian and Chamberlain, has been admitted to the Wairoa Hospital. His many friends wish him a speedy recovery from his illness.

Saturday next may he reckoned a fateful day for Wairoa, when the shareholders in the Wairoa Meat Company are to meet to decide on the proposed sale of the works. Mr. L. T. Powdrell has called a meeting of farmers, shareholders and others interested in the operation of works in the district to meet in the Borough Chambers at 10 a.in. the same day.