WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18193, 14 September 1933, Page 12

WAIROA NEWS

I Herald Correspondent.) The total of the accounts passed at the Wairoa Payer Board meeting was £1132 His 1 ()d, including nearly £IOOO for interest. The receipts for the month totalled £2240 17s ltd, made up as follows: —Retail consumers, £700; sales of goods and power, £ 1468; instalments refunded, £72; interest on

instalments, £1 7s. The Wairoa County Council's revenue for the past month totalled L‘ Slifts Us 4il, the chief items being: dates, 12 4693: heavy traffic fees, £67; No. 3 refunds, (2 2740; pound fees, CIO; drivers’ licenses, £5; stile of cottage, £4; refund court costs, £9; rent, Morere reserve, £4; rent, Terapatiki reserve, 12 210 s; fees and lines, 12 7; balance of subsidy, L'4f>S; grant, Mangapoike road, £'l73; subsidy, Waikaremouiui. main highway, £267 Us lid. A dance and social ;il Clydebank in aid of the W.D.F.U. was most successful, especially financially. At the close Mr. O. D. Tod, Nuhaka. thanked those responsible for organising' the function. The Melndymakers supplied the music. While the bugbear of the average ratepayer is the 10 per cent, penalty, it should not be forgotten that the Wairoa County Council has in operation the policy of granting a rebate of !> per eei\t. for prompt payment. The result of this policy was mentioned by the chairman at Wednesday’s meeting of the council as producing an excess in receipts totalling 12 8600. The figures were: Rates collected for year to September 13, 11)33, arrears £2.877 10s 3d, current £4220 8s 4d; to September .13, 1 932, arrears £1436 Ss, current £2043 14s.

At the County Council meeting authorisations were received from the Treasury, Public Works Department, Lands Department, and Main Highways Board tor sums to be expended in the county, totalling £9466, a considerable amount being refunds for work done under the unemployment schemes. After all ' the trouble taken by the Wairoa Comity Council in hearing deputations from the Ruatanewlia natives, to carry out certain drainage works, or rather to authorise them, solely for the benefit of the lands of the Maoris themselves, the scheme lias come to naught. The chairman stated that though modifications had been agreed to when the deputation met the council last, there was so much fuss made that it was decided not to go on and to leave the natives to their own devices. It was also mentioned that the work was not in any wav called for l>v the council.

The county health inspector, Mr. P. A. Milne, reported to the County Council meeting that there had been only one notification of infectious disease, for the month, erysipelas; the patient was taken to hospital, anil recovered. In all 48 inspections had been made. During hist month the imports at Waikokopu were: Southern produce. CO Inns; superphosphate, 91 tons; general, 9), tons; cement, 11 tons; wire, 121 tons. At, the last of the series of card tournaments at Clydebank, the first prize fell to Mr. 11. li. Taylor, and another prize to Miss M. Kirk.

Mr. Frame, the ranger at Waikareinuana. has been busy of late liberating trout in the Waikaretaheke and other streams. He informed a settler that quite a big run of eels about the size of a darning needle had come up the river to Kaitawa lake, which now feeds the turbines at the hydro-electric station. and if the run from the sea is taken into account, it- is a very long trek indeed. The writer once saw thousands of similarly-sized eels working their way across a meadow, presumably to shorten the travelling distance, and the migration occurred just, below a large bend of the river. The eels work oil their sinuous way easily, as an April shower had well damped the grass.

Miss M. Kirk, llatiima. is staying with Miss Black, Clydebank. —Mr. A. McCaskill, Wellington, has been appointed to the charge of the Clydebank School.—Leave of absence was granted nt the County Council meeting to Cr. J. Tait. Mohaka.—Mr. F. Berry, manage) of Messrs. Niven and Company’s Wairoa branch, who has been ill for some time, fins bad to enter the. Wairoa Hospital to undergo an immediate operation. He is reported to be doing as well as can * he expected. —Mrs. B. Hill is making good progress in the Wairoa Hospital.— Mr. E. Allison left recently for Martinborough in connection with the death of his cousin, Mr. Blackwell, who fell through the ceiling of the town hall. — Mr. J. Apedaile has been discliaged from hospital.—Mr. Bert Larsen, a Wairoa Hospital patient, is progressing well. —Mr. George Menzies, evangelist, of Napier, is paying a visit to Wairoa.— ’ Mr. 11. Corn forth, sen., of Kopu road, is at present in the Wairoa Hospital. His many friends wish him a speedy recovery.—Mr. A. Law is still seriously ill in hospital. Sister M. Hague was entertained at the nurses’ home at the Wairoa Hospital bv the Trained Nurses’ Association and, a pleasant time was spent. The president Mrs. G. Rowell, presented the guest w ith till initialled serviette ring as a "small mark of esteem, and all wished her every good fortune in her new sphere of duty. Sister Hague made a suitable reply. For the adjourned annual meeting of the Wairoa Chamber of Commerce, to be held to-night in St. Paul’s Parish Hall, there is very important business to be transacted, and a large attendance is anticipated.