WAIPIRO BAY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2041, 28 March 1907, Page 2

WAIPIRO BAY.

(From our own Correspondent.) ft is very, satisfactory to residmitf of this district to learn that, at last, sittings of the Magistrate’s Court are to ho held in AVaipiro. 'The great inconvenience caused by the public having to travel a matter of twenty miles each way to attend -the Court has always been a sore [Joint to parties interested in this portion of-the district; tho more especially as it generally involved the loss of two whole days or more, rind possibly the eases adjourned for another three, months. Why we have been content lor so many years to bare no Court hold between To! a ga 1 Bay and Port Awanui is rattier hard to say. At •any rate, the central position of AVaipiro for this purpose is sufficient reason why the sittings' should always be hold here, the good morals of the inhabitants notwithstanding. Like (ho proverbial child, wo are happy how we’ve got it! There lias been no little tni'k and excitement over the Library Reserve sections being put up for public tender by the,Government. The scarcity of land of any sort to be had in Waipiro is doubtless the cause of the competition for these year-to-year strips. At time of writing most of tho applicants arc happy in the ignorance that is bliss.

Tim Wnipiro Racing Club hold their annual meeting cn Saturday, the 23rcT hist., and as usual .there was a large number of people present. Like the cricketers and footballers, the Racing Club are vainly hopiug that the hills will some day coliujise and thus providentially supply sufficient level ground to enable the sport to be carried out under more convenient and satisfactory circumstances.

Mr. Kelly and his men are now busy erecting the extra telegraph line to Waipiro. Had we not been a longsuffering, satisfied lot of individuals, wc would undoubtedly bavo been favored with more Conveniences in connection with the post office. But it is the way of the world; the people who make the most complaints generally reap the most benefits. For many years Waipiro used a building as post office which for convenience of the public could only he compared to a. sentry-box. There is now a much larger looking building; but the mailbags for places further along the coast are hung up in the public part of'the building,- and it is still ncco.ssnry to do a lot of squeezing in order to pass anyone inside the place. There have lately been vast made in the appearance of the frontage by the erection of rails on each side of the steps. The undressed timber may not look very nice, but it must have its advantage to justify its use. It is safe to say there is as much, if not more, business done in the Waipiro post office. than in smother .along the coast ;, and yet every other place can put it completely in the shade for both appearance and convenience. When the new wire is completed it is to he hoped that we shall he favored with the appointment of an assistant who is really capable of -undertaking the working of the “Morse’-’ instrument. -It. is apparently Hot a difficulty matter to get anyone sworn in for postal duties ,cm the Coast, so it is to be hoped that a little caution will bo exercised and the appointment not given to the first applicant “introduced.”