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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 4

•When the Mangapapa -School opened at the beginning of the week after the summer recess there were 414 children on the roll. A total of 75 children left the school last year to carry on with their secondary education or to be absorbed into employment, and there were 38 new pupils at the school this week.

The third turbine unit for the production of hydro-electric power at Tuai will be installed during the latter part of 1938, according to advice received in Wairoa, arrangements having been made to take delivery of the machinery about the middle of the year. The construction of the pipeline which is to serve this unit is going ahead well, the concrete cradles being well on, and the making of the pipes also showing excellent progress. The Hume Pipe Company, Limited, is the contractor for supplying the pipes and placing them in Position on the cradles laid by the Public Works Department. Instead of riveting the nines "at the joins, as in the case of he first two lines from the Kiaitawa surge chamber to the power-house at S the third line will be welded, diminishing to some extent the surface friction opposed to the now ot water.—Special.

At a meeting of the Poverty Bay A and P Association's general committee yesterday, thanks were expressed 'to Mr. A. C. Langford for he helrj he had been in organising the big display of fat cattle at the last Gisborne Show, this being the culmination of steady work in past years, and on the motion of Mr. S. G. Smith Mr Langford was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. It was decided to adopt the grounds committee's recommendation that the patron, Mr. H. G Tucker, be authorised to carry Out tests for the purpose of sinking a well in the hope that a water supply for the railway end of the ground could be secured for Show Day. It was decided to put a floor in the feed room for stud cattle. The following were appointed a committee to consider arrangements for the next rodeo: Messrs. J. C. Graham, E. R. Black, F. Tolerton, H. G. Smith, R. Graham, A. C. Langford, L. Field, L. G. Woodward and C. Gaukrodger. Mr. H. R. Williams resigned from the association in view of his departure for Invercargill, and a tribute was paid to him for his work as a member of the committee and his assistance as an exhibitor.