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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19585, 17 March 1938, Page 4

Charged with being" unlawfully on premises on three occasions, a Maori, John Frederick Mcllroy, appeared recently before Messrs. A. Tuckwell and H. Williams, J.P.s, in the Waipiro Bay POlice Court and was fined £1 on the first charge, £5 on the second charge, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months on the third- information. The charges related to his being unlawfully on the premises of the Tawhiti Hotel, Waipiro Bay, bn February 19 and March 5, and in a portion of the residence of Mrs. R. G. Sherwood-Hale, Tokomaru Bay, on March 10. George Terure was also fined £1 for being unlawfully on the premises of the Tawhiti Hotel On March 5.

An instruction to inquire into the possibility of arranging further reduction in lighting charges during the coming year was given at yesterday’s meeting of the Poverty Bay ElectricPower Board, on the motion of the chairman, Mr. F. R. Ball, who commented that while the board already had done well in that direction, he hoped it would be possible to do a little more, though any reductions in the future necessarily would be on a smaller scale than those of the recent past. “I think the board has done well already,” remarked Mr. M. T. Trafford, supporting the chairman’s motion. “We have brought the lighting charges down from 8d per unit in the country avid 7d in the town to a flat rate pf 4Jd per unit.”