WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 16

WAIROA NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.) During April the Wairoa Borough Council purchased front the Bower Board a total of 187,713 units, an increase of 2392 units on the corresponding period of last year. The units consumed for street lighting and ear parks totalled 2500. an increase of 62. Water pumping used up 4455 units, an increase of 157 units. Not content with the petty practice of smashing insulators with shanghais or tearing down decorations, the t.airoa larrikins have started on the expensive lamps on the Wairoa bridge, the borough engineer, Mr. \\ . limes, reported that another glohe on the bridge lumps has been smashed. The globes are fairly dear. and. as far as he knows, can he procured only from America. During April the Wairoa Borough tratlie inspector, Mr. A. C. Twvford. issued five drivers’ licenses, and three heavy tratlie licenses. The Wairoa water supply continues to give satisfaction. During April the estimated quantity of water pumped was 2.587.000 gallons an increase of 333.0C0 gallons. The engineer reports that about 20ft. of the intake pipe lying on the riverbed is exposed, and the. protective covering worn away, lie believes, how•ver that the trouble will vanish when the river rises to normal. The rainfall for Wairoa in May as recorded hv Mr. (*. O. Mackay, ot "le I’litaputa,” Ohinepaka Valley, totalled only 1.75 in.. namely ,18in. on May 10, I. on May 11, .30in, on May 12. and sin. on May 13. This makes the total for the five , months of the year 11, . against' 31.81 in. for the cot-' responding period last voar. Former May records are :—1932, 6.12 in. : 1933, 16.33 in.: 1934. 5.10 in. ; 1935. 6.17 in.; 1936. 4.68iu. : and 1937, 1.75 in. The live months’ total does not amount to onefourth of Wniron’s total for the last 25 vears. The value of the output of the Wairoa lairy factory for the past month, based on Is per lb., was £5424. The cream supply is gradually lessening. “All aboard for Wairoa,” may lie heard on the Napier railway platform .vlien the official trip is being made by way of opening the line to Wairoa, which, of course, will he well in advance of the projected excursion, Gisborne to Napier. Representations are being made to the Minister of Railways to make the official opening by a big excursion from Napier and the districts south of it. to Wairoa. It will he recalled that when a train ran from Napier to Tutira I here were 800 passengers, and later when an excursion was run to I’utorino—•iiid not on a holiday—there were 4CO I I ion re), so that a big invasion may br rxpccted if present claims are recognised. The Mayor. Mr. 11. 1.. Marker, has notified the Herald's representative that the function fixed for next Friday it. the lug viaduct, probably the driving if the last spike, has been postponed for a time, hut there is no certainty vlien the Hon. B. Semple can attend for this purpose. Miss Nancy Porter, Hastings, is visiting Wairoa.—Mr. and Mrs. (!. L. McIntyre have returned from their honeymoon to Jlereheretau. Whakaki.—Mr. Trewby, secretary of the Wairoa Dairy Factory Company, is on holiday leave in the south.—Miss Audrey Whyte, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Walter Whyte, Lucknow street, has returned from a visit to relatives at Ilavelock North. —

Mr. Colin Aspden. Scott street, who suffered hums, on the neck and faro owing to it gunpowder explosion, was discharged front hospital yesterday after receiving the necessary attention.—The footballer, Mr. Ernest' Clarke, who was admitted to the Wairoa Hospital sttffer-

ing from a broken left arm during a football match at the Lambton Square grounds, was reported yesterday to be doing very well. Mrs. Trafford, Lahore street, gave a pleasant party for her daughter, .Miss Kathleen Trafford, on the occasion of her twenty-first birthday. There were about 50 guests, including several from Napier and Gisborne. A pleasant time was spent in music and dancing, the music for the latter. being provided by Miss Prior and Mr. 'Reg. Herbert. During an interval -Miss 'lraffnrd was presented with an autographed door key amid some merriment, and many good wishes were extended to her. The guest was the recipient of a valuable toilet set and crystal ware in {treat variety, for which the recipient extended thanks. A dainty supper and the singing of ‘‘For Site’s A .lolly Good Fellow” brought an enjoyable function to a close.