WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 16

WAIROA NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.) A Confirmation service will be held in St. Paul’s Church, Wairoa, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, the celebrant being the Bishop of Waiapu, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Williams.

If the vessels now scheduled to load frozen produce at Waikokopu meet with a fair run of luck as regards weather conditions the congestion in the Wairoa freezing works of Messrs. Swifts (N.Z.) Limited, should be eased soon. The Matakana and Port Fremantle are to load this month, each taking about 12,000 freight carcases. The first vessel, the Port Fremantle, is due about July 16.

Mr. E. C. C. Boyes, the headmaster of the Wairoa District School, gave a very interesting talk at the last meeting of St. Paul’s Men’s Club. He carried the listeners with him during the progress of a holiday trip he took in Europe in 1928. The talk, which was not only bright but instructive, is to be continued at the next gathering of the club members.

Mr. P. Everett, orchard instructor, Gisborne, is to carry out classes for instruction in apple-packing on Monday at Mr. Allan White’s sheds. North Clyde. It is stated that good wages can be made at packing during the season.

At the latest meeting of the Wairoa Chamber of Commerce the agenda was small, but one question in which that body had been very active was advanced a stage. This was the question of providing better access to the foot of the beautiful falls at Te Reinga as an additional attraction on the new inland highway. The Hon. R. Semple has informed the chamber that the matter will be dealt with when a .survey has been made in connection with the deviation mentioned recently in the Herald. A party of Wairoa bowlers will leave an Sunday for Auckland, en route to Suva, to take part in a big tournament there. The party, which comprises Messrs. J. McGoMrick, W J. Clark, H. Roberts, and L. E. Galbraith will sail on Tuesday for Suva. The entries 'far the point-to-point meeting of the Mahia Hunt Club, are stated to be very good, and a capital day’s sport is anticipated. There are some very fine trophies for competition.

Steps are being taken here to raise a fund for the relief of the war stricken children in England as a result of the strife in Spain. The Rev. C. E. Hyde, vicar of St. Paul’s, is interesting himself in the matter. Miss Marion Moore, who died recently in Palmerston North, was at one time head mistress of the Wairoa district school. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Zakris arrived back in Wairoa on Thursday after the foi’mer had enjoyed a long holiday in his native country, Greece.