WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 16

WAIROA NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.)

At the Wairoa County Council meeting this week Or. W. 'fait mentioned certain alleged road reserves not shown in the. balance sheet- us county assets. These, lie said, were shown on the old maps as "reserves" and not as road reserves, and so should he county assets. The flei'k said lie felt sure these lands were'road reserves, but the titles would be searched.

The Treasury has advised the Wairoa County Council of the payment of subsidies on maintenance of main highways for the quarter ended September 3d, 1956, as niain highways for the quarter 1926, as follows :---Napier-Gisborne, via Mqrcre, £1198; Wnikaremoana road highway, £519; Ruakituri Valley high.vav. £lßl ; and Nuhaka-Waikokopu highway,, £126. In the future the Wairoa Chamber of Commerce is to be notified of coming Ministerial visits, thanks to Messrs. D. W. Coleman and E. L. Cullen, M.P.s. This should put a stop to the spreading of incorrect reports of coming visits, mostly deduced from private letters, and sometimes to the "wish being) father to the though},."

The imports at Waikokopu for the past two months were: Timber, 90,108 ft. ; general goods, 63£ tons; southern produce, 18H tons; cement, 122 tons; manure, 14 tons, tip trucks, 18. The exports during the same period were :—341 bales of wool; 796 packages of pork, 24 quarters of beef 1578 carcases of mutton, 14,391 carcases of lamb; 277 bags, 24 quarters and 82 sides of boneless veal.,. Twelve vessels worked the port, which was only, unworkable four days out of 60 days.

The total of the accounts passed at the last, meeting of the Wairoa. Harbour Board was £531. Of this sum the board's expenses came to £315, and that of the Public Works Department to £216.

The Fordsdale is at Waikokopu loading 12,000 freight carcases of frozen meat for Home from the works of Messrs. Swifts (X.Z.), Limited, Wairoa. The vessel is expected to leave to-night. The next boat to load at. Waikokopu will be the Port Nicholson, next Wednesday. The Wairoa County balance sheet for the year ended March 31, 1936. was presented to the County Council on Wednesday, certified as correct, and was adopted.—The chairman, Cr. A. 0. Nolan, said the auditor had ruled that the council had no power to take a lesser fee for billiard licenses than that provided for in the by-laws, and, failing the making of a new" by-law, a way out was suggested by the clerk. Major Stevens, an Indian Army officer, accompanied by Mrs. Stevens is visiting Waikaremoana while on a Dominion (our.—The Ven. Archdeacon Butterfield and Mrs. Butterfield are to be farewelled on February 25.—Mr. and Mrs. C. Watt. Johnsonville, Wellington, and their small son are staying with the hitter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Bygum, Queen street.—Mrs. D. Byford, Kabul street, has left for Wellington on holiday.—Mr. and Mrs. R, Dicke, the tatter a sister of Mr. J. Vale, McLean street, who have been staying with Mr. mid. Mrs. Vale, left for Christchurch on' Friday. They visited Waikaremoana, the power house at Tuai, and Morere, and expressed themselves as having enjoyed every moment, of their stay during the Wairoa carnival. Mrs. .lane White, widow of the late Mr. Robert White, Wairoa's first post and telegraph officer, is slaying with Mr. nnd Mrs. A. T. Carroll at Huramua. Mrs. White, who is hale and hearty despite her great age, is a sister of the fate Sir James Carroll, Wairoa's distinguished ariki.