WAIROA NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 2

WAIROA NEWS

(Harold Correspondent.) Throe men returning home from a funeral in Wairoa on Friday night only just missed being flic unwilling participators in another. When near the southern end of the Frasertown bridge the car struck a patch of loose clay and left the road, falling over a steep bank: 25ft. below was the swollen Kahauroa Creek. Fortunately the car was caught by a willow tree, and thus the three occupants escaped with nothing worse than a few cuts and bruises. The upper portion of the car was badly damaged. James Henry Scott, of Mohaka, on a second charge of drunkenness, was fined £1 by Mr. V. E. Winter, J.P. The Wairoa Harbour Board, in pursuance of its decision to meet occasionally at Waikokopu, held its monthly meeting there to-day. Since Friday morning .76in. of rain was registered on the coast, the Saturday morning total being ,21in. Mangaone Valley, Nuhaka, had a full eight, days of rain and a number of newly-born lambs perished, whilst other districts have not escaped losses. At the annual meeting of the directors of the Wairoa Starr-Bowkett Society, to be held this week, the report will be of a very satisfactory nature. The retiring directors arc Messrs. O. Johanscn and J. M. Osier, who are again up for re-election. On Saturday evening a boy named Gemmell while cycling from Marine parade on to the Wairoa traffic bridge came into collision with a car driven by Mr. F. R. Smith, and suffered several cuts about the legs. After receiving medical attention he was able to proceed to his home. One of the headlights of the car was broken by the impact. Mr. J. E. Benson, the Poverty Bay provincial president of the Farmers' Union, is to meet the Wairoa executive and members to-morrow while on his way south for the quarterly meeting of the Dominion executive. Mrs. C. Scott, Childers road, Gisborne, was a week-end visitor to Wairoa on route to Gisborne.—Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Smith, Nuhaka, were visitors to Wairoa last week-end Mr. Clarence Grainger returned from a visit to Napier on Saturday.—Mrs. P. G. Glass, Lahore street, is relieving teacher at the Turiroa School. Reports from Auckland regarding Miss Dorothy Davys, one of the victims of a midnight motor accident, are not reassuring. Her mother, Mrs. M. Davys, Clyde road, is still in Auckland. , , Mr. E. L. Cullen, M.P. for Hawke's Bay, who was a visitor to Wairoa on Friday, addressed the local Labour Party privately, but it is understood he will give a general address in Wairoa very soon. It is now generally understood that the Representation Commission's verdict is to stand and that Wairoa at the next election will be severed from Gisborne politi'Mr. and Mrs. V. O. Shapland, or Crick lewood, Wairoa. were recent guests of Mi-, and Mrs. W. Barrett. Mangaone Valley.