WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18039, 16 March 1933, Page 12

WAIROA NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.) • The annual inspection of the transmission lines in the district has been made and the verbal report to the Power* Board engineer is generally satisfactory. Prior to the departure of Mr Maurice Dean, cadet in the Magistrate’s Court, for TV Kuiti, a few ) members of the local Methodist Church met at the residence of Mr'and Mrs A. E. Kelly, North Cyhle, and tendered a farewell evening to the departing guest. Community singing and ! musical items made it)) a very pleasant programme. During the evening Mrs T. 11. Stewart made Mr Dean a presentation of n handsome autograph book oil behalf of the pupils of Trinity Sunday School, of which he was superintendent, voicing the regret of all at | his departure and thanking Mr and Mrs Kelly for their hospitality, and j hoping tiiat their guest would find : plenty of similar work in his new I sphere. Mr Dean made a suitable re- ' pi v. Mrs Mary Ann Mills, of Tualui station, Ruakituri, and widow of the Hite Mr Alexander Mills, who was reported ! in our columns a few days ago as be jug seriously ill, died on Ihiesday morn ing in her seventy-ninth year. Th( late Mrs Mills lived a very quiet am: unassuming life, and yet found sc many opportunities of helping other: that she became known as “the mother of Ruakituri.’’ While Mi and Mrs Mills resided in Wairoa the aged couple earned the utmost respect and many townspeople also will regret her passing, and “the valley’’ will be the poorer through her death. Deceased leaves no children, and hei niece, Miss llighet, who has been hei companion for years, will have tfie sympathy of a wide circle of friends The funeral took place to-day at the Wairoa cemetery. Leave of absence was granted at the Hospital Board meeting to Mr A. T (tun-oil —Major John Chicken, a Maori War veteran, is still in hospital, and as cheerful ns possible under, the circumstances. There is. a slight improvement in his condition. —Mr (. B Allan, 'supervisor of works under the Health Department, was a . visitor to Wairoa on Tuesday and conferred w ith the Hospital Board on the subject ol the nurses’ home contract. M.i G Xieol, who had a hand severely injuied on the new Wairoa bridge construction work, is making good progress, and ex m-cts to be discharged soon from hospital.—Mesdames J. W. Calinglmi ami 0. U. Willis, and Mr D. Willis, Napier have been spending a short Dine in Wairoa and Morere— Mr Flewellen King returned to Oreenmeadows on Monday.—Captain •<’. -Jackson, A mlkeen, is making good progress m hospital after having undergone an operation. , , „ , The imports at Waikokopu tor I oilman- were:—Petrol, 255 drums; general goods, 40 tons; southern pro duce, 134 tons; rams, 00; cement, ->0 tons; manure, 10 tons; wire, 30 tons. The exports were: —Hides, 57 sacks; empty petrol drums. 181; slice]), 117 o; lambs 743; transhipments, 3 tons; pipes ' 128 tons; and one milking plant The Hospital Board revenue for Fob runrv was £987 Is 4d, the chief iteinf being: —Levies, £643 6s 3d; patients fees £322 13s ILL The expenditure came to £928 12s Bd, the principal items being: Maintenance, £4.K 17s .W payments to other boards, £IOO I<»*