WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 21 January 1936, Page 11

WAIROA NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.) Satisfactory arrangements have now been made by the local postmaster for tho improvement of the mail services to and from Clydebank. The Clydebank Settlers’ Association highly appreciate the efforts of tho postmaster. Two well-conditioned mobs' of sheep have recently passed through to the Waikato via Hie scenic highway. Due comprised, 2100 6-year-old Romney cross ewes, and the other contained 3200' of tho same breed. The two mobs were typical of the high-class stock which, this district produces. Mrs. ii. L. 'Taylor presided at. the Inst, meeting of the Clydebank branch of the Women’s Division of the New. Zealand Li liners’ Union, The monthly competition was won by Airs. 11. Taylor, with Miss M. Taylor second, and Aliss N. Taylor, third. A good deal of formal business was done, and (he rest of the ,evening was spent with cards. Tiie deputation which waited on the County Council recently in regard to metalling the upper portions of t he Clydes bank roads lias reported the council’s decision. The .settlers, however, decided that they could nut afford a special loan and it was decided to ask the council to place a. £1 for £1 subsidy on its usti mates for next year.

Tho word-building competition in. aid of tFire Brigade Queen resulted:—.Miss Gladys Marshall, North Clyde, 841, 1; Miss J'ivelyn Smith Frown street, 720, 2. On Thursday, afternoon a. motor accident occurred, on the Wairoa-Napier road on t!io Napier side, of the site of the big viaduct. Surgeon-Commander Fuddle, of 11.M.5. Philomel, was driving to. Napier, and meeting a sheep lorry on. the cutting, Hie car ran into a. ditch and partially capsized, and the front wheel came into contact with the edge of the ditch, which crumpled. Commander Fuddle was thrown heavily from, the vehicle, suffering an injury iq a knee beside several other abrasions, lie was admitted to the Wairoa Hospital suffering from shock, but is reported, to lie doing well. The car was not seriously damaged. The flagging of the positions of the rival Carnival Queen candidates shows that, the A. and P. Queen is leading, followed by the tennis-gym, and Fire Brigade-lit. John Ambulance, in that order. The rest of the week should 1 prove exciting, as there are considerable sums to be paid: in yet. Four half-mile rowing races were, got off on the VVairoa Fiver on Saturday afternoon. Very good races resulted, especially the final, which was won by a third of a length, after a. race in which the competing crews were on even terms for nearly the whole of the distance. The winning crew comprised McCorkindale (str.). Henson. Nicol and: Smith : cox. M. Fraser. The representative, crews for the Napier L.V.A. regatta at Napier will he as follows : —Juniors, McCorkindaJe, .Hobson, Henson, and Williams ; maidens. Ilelean, Townsley, Horne, and Nicol; 1 Ost„, C. McCorkindale, Hester, Ueslop, and Smith ; youths, Herbert, Brady, D. Darker. and B. llarker.

At tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, before Mr. IT. A. Bygum, J.P., O. T. Chamberlain was convicted on a charge of having been drunk, and ordered to pay costs. His condition was such that he had been on remand for several days. George G. Hancock, who was arrested by Constable 'Gatehouse, was charged with having failed to account to ,f. T. Sheffield, manager at bake House, for moneys allegedly received. He was remanded’ on hail till Friday.

The. concert given by the VVairoa Municipal Band in Coronation Square on Sunday night- was. well attended, and some excellent, numbers were given. The rendering of the sacred number. ‘.'Deep Harmony,” was an outstanding performance. Bandsman J. Shinnonds and Mr. K. G. L. Smith, the conductor, were

heard to advantage in their cornet solos. in. connection with His Majesty s illness. the progress of which is sympathetically watched, it may be stated that Sister Agnes Black, nurse in charge, is a cousin of Miss A. F. Black, ol “( lydevie.w,” VVairoa.

Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie and family, of Clydebank, 'are holidaying at Opoutania. —Mr. and Mrs. 11. B. Taylor and family, of Burnside, are on holiday in Napier.— Mr. G. Williamson is on a holiday up the Fast Coast. —Miss Mary Dornau was admitted to tho VVairoa* Hospital on Sunday suffering from shock as a result of a car going off the road near WiiiIma. —Mrs, H. Grout has returned from Wanganui, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Sutcliffe. Mr. 1H Cf. McNab, headmaster of John McGlashan College, Dunedin, and Mrs. McNab are guests of Dr. and Mrs. Hall wright, VVairoa.-—Mr. W. Kbbitt, who has been spending a holiday in To Puke district, lias returned to Waii'oa.—Mr. and Mrs. O. Vallancc, of Christchurch, are visiting tho district.—Mr. W. Muscove, of Christchurch, and Miss M. Mayo, of Hastings, are the

guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. Summerfield, North Clyde.—Mr. and Mrs.'J. L. Jones, of Suva, are staying at the Wairoa Hotel. Other guests there are Messrs. P. McVerry and B. Donoghue, of Hastings.—Mr. G. W. Sherman, of Christchurch, managing director of Swifts (N.Z.), Limited, with Mrs. Sherman, is visiting ' Wairoa.