Wairoa Notes.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 499, 12 August 1902, Page 1

Wairoa Notes.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The weather though mild is exceedingly wet, and of course the roads are in a boggy condition, at times rendering outside communication almost impossible. However, to his honor bo it said, Alick Mclntyre, the Jehu between here and Gisborne via Tinoroto is always well up to time. The difficulties ho meets with on the way usually disappear before his spade and axe, and the entire mail, including Monday’s Gisborne Times, being delivered on .Tuesday night. I notice that JEIOO is placed on the estimates for maintenance of the Nubaka Springs, but will it bo spent ? Perhaps like the £SOO vote of last year it will be mouldering in the Napier chest. Let us hope that all this philandering since last session of sending up first one and then another to report will cease, and that the Government will really do something to utilize this valuable asset.

Although our enthusiastic ardour has lost its edgo still we are preparing for Saturday’s Coronation festivities, and given good weather, we shall not be behind our neighbors in matters patriotic. With Mr J. W. Sargisson as Chairman, and Mr R. Neill as Secretary and Marshal of procession, backed by active sub-com-mittees, we can only predict a successful issue.

Our newly erected mill for the preparation of phormium tenax at Whakiki, under the able management of Mr Scotcher, is now turning out a marketable commodity, thereby adding to the commerce of the district.

The recently appointed manager of the Nubaka Dairy Factory, Mr Gallichan, comes highly recommended from the West Coast, and it will not bo his fault if things are not booming at the factory in September or October. The Wairoa Dairy Factory, if not exactly in imbibus, is still in futuro, but we hope for a spurt on the part of the directors which will land tneir horse a good second to that of Nuhaka. There have been several enquiries of late for land suitable for dairy farming, and from the many inspections there is sure to result a good many selections. Father Neptune has been cutting up rough with us of late, rolling in from the Antarctic such a swell as to cause our pilot, Davy Jones, to write out six wires at once indicating bad bar and heavy sea. On this account the teachers of our public school were unable to come up to time, and I believo have been censured by tho committee at its last meeting. Football matches aro in evidence on the Saturday half-holday, and many a rough and tumble occurs, out of which the actors [come, if not wiser, at least muddier men. But acting on the adage, “ What’s the hodds so long’s yer ’appy '? ” No bones being broken, the players and the public are satisfied, and so the world wags on.