WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18065, 17 April 1933, Page 10

WAIROA NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.) The pay-sheet of the Wairoa Harbor Board for March totalled £753 18s lid. Of this amount £6OO was represented by a State Advances instalment. During the past month the Wairoa poundkeeper impounded 28 sheep, nine cows and one horse, and released is COW'D oil the read. The health of the borough continues to ho highly satisfactory, there being no cases of infectious disease during tho month. The inspector made 78 inspections and took 13 samples for analysis. Mr. F. A. Phelan, traffic inspector for the borough, reports that in March ho issued four additional driving licenses, and also issued six noxious weeds notices. Several petrol tanks were inspected before being covered in and found satisfactory. Coupled with tho county report, it is evident that Wairoa is a very healthy place in which to live. 'l’he following are the returns at Wairoa and Waikokopu for March, the figures for the corresponding month the previous year being in parentheses: —Wharfages: Wairoa, C 27 Ss Sd ( £l7 12s lOd); Waikokopu, 1'37 13s (£2B 15s); total, £65 lsSil (.CBS 7s Hid). Fort charges: Wairoa, £22 IDs 5(1 (£6l 5s 2d); Waikokopu, C 25 6s 3d (£45 3s sd); total, £4B 5s Sd (£lO6 Ss 7d). Harbor improvement rate: Wairoa, £5 12s 6d (£4 9s 7d); Waikokopu, £5 8s ltd (£7 3s 3d); total, £ll Is 5d (£ll 12s lOd). The arrivals and departures were: Wairoa, 14 (23).; Waikokopu, 18 (29). The Borough Council’s pay whoet for March totalled £2828 18s Bd. The heaviest items were Power' Board, for current, £1025 Is lOd; electrical depreciation fund, £371 12s sd. The Wairoa pilot, Captain A. Night, reports: “On taking soundings on the flats 1 find that the earthquakes have disturbed the timber on the bottom of lie river, and in some cases the logs (hat were partly covered with mud. ire now lying on top of the mud, and with the first flood will go out of the river.” This may result, later on. In a great improvement in the communication as the silt caught by the ’.ogs is likely to follow them and t‘he scour on the bar will be increased. There are many thousands of logs buried deep in the lower reaches of the river.

The imports and exports at Waikokopu in March' were: Imports, 7716 posts, 170 drums of petrol, 411 'nns of super, 3'5 tons of general goods, 60 tons of cement, and 49 tons of southern produce. The exports were: 203 bales of wool, three cylinders, 836 sheep, 142 lambs, 35 empty petrol drums, and one piano. During March on the low pressure supply of the Wairoa water system 2 4 ;11 units of electricity were used in pumping. 3,026,800 gallons being sent .o town, equal to 183 gallons per connection per day. On the high pressure supply 4725 units were used in pumping, the quantity- of water pumped being 2,949,850 gallons, equal to 188 gallons per connection per day. The destruction of the old bridge made t necessary to run the waiter pipes across on the riverbed, since when this has proved very satisfactory, and though provision has been made for the supply pipes to he taken under the new bridge the present system is not likely to be altered.

Mr. J. A. Gillespie is visiting Wellington.—Miss Carn, of Dalgety and Company’s staff, has gone on holiday to the South Island. —Mr. C. Stone was admitted to the Wairoa Hospital on Friday to undergo a serious operation.—Mr. F. Stormer and son, Mangapapa, have Been visiting Wairoa. —Mr. J. N. Carswell, "Matahiwi," Masterton, is visiting his brother and Mrs. J. D. Carswell, of “Riverland," Waihua. —Miss L. Hislop, King street, is inlying a visit to Pahiatua. —Mr. F. Burkhart, Wairoa, is taking his Easier Holidays in Hastings as the guest of Miss O. Crawley—Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Seott are on holiday in Wanganui.— Miss Ward. Wellington, is paying a holiday visit to her sister. Miss M. Ward, Wairoa.—Mr. A. S. Parker is on a visit to his sister. Mrs. H. H. O’Loughlen, Wairoa. At the monthly meeting of the Ruakituri Women’s Institute the junior vice-president presided over a good attendance. It was decided to arrange for a dance to be held in Waikatea wooished in May; it is to be a hardup function. Miss McCormick gave a very interesting demonstration of painting tinfoil pictures, and passe partout framing. The date being too early, there were not many entries for tho.best chrysanthemum bloom. The winners in die competition, something made from used materials, were: Mrs. Burden 1, Miss A. Bruce 2, Miss Robson 3.