PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 143, 5 July 1937, Page 3

PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Our Own Correspondents.

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Waipawa Rainfall. During the month of June tain fell on 18 days in Waipawa, the total for the month being 4ins. The totai to date for 1937 is 13.71 ins., while for the same period in 1936, 26.02 ins. had fallen. Sanatorium Road. Grading work at Pukeora Sanatorium is to be carried out shortly by the Waipawa Hospital Board, which has becii granted permission to make use of a grader belonging to the Waipu kuiau County Councii. Napier Harbour Rata. Ihe sum of £435 5/5 represents the Waipukurau County's share of Napier Harbour rates which total £12,055 8/6 for fhe current year. The Waipukurau county's allocation represents 2-11 of a penny in the pound on unimproved value of £574,559. County Clerks' Conference. Permission to attend the annual conference in Wellington of the New Zealand Institute of County Clerks has been given by the Waipukurau County Councii to tbe county clerk, Mr R. B. Price. This conference is to be held on August 24, Width of Bridses. Aoocrding to advice received by the Waipukurau County Councii from theMaia Highways Board, all new bridgies on hrst and second ciass highways niust in future be not lcss than 24 feet wide. Those on third class roads need not be wider than 12 feet, which,. of course, will not aliow for two-w.ay traffic. Muddy Walk to School. Reference to the fact that flix children of Porangahau have to walk over a mile along a muddy road to meet the school bus is to be made to the Hawke's Bay Education Board by the Waipukurau School Committee. Mr J. A. Chambers thought tha,t the board should make a,rrangements to have the bus servico extended to collect the children and a request is to be made to the board aiong these lines. Mr L. Renner suggested that if the board could not extend the service, a shelter might be erected at the bus ternunus. Red Cross Examinations, JLn the recent examinations condjicted by the Dannevirke branch of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, the following were successful in the home nursmg secrion: — Mesdames A. Westlake, M. Gibbard, L. Lorck, C. Poole, D. Tidawell, E.' Reynolds, M. Taylor, and M. Adams. For first-aid the . following passed the examination: Mesdames I. Bond, M. Goggin, O. Hawley, and Bedward, Mi-sses E. Massie and C. Dennis. These two classes were inetructed by Sister M. Canning'. Others who passed in first-aid, having* been dnstructed by Sister Leipst, were: Mrs E. Dobson, Misses D. Nicholls, M. Pedler, M. McKenzie, M. Palmer, Messrs Todd, H. McDonald, Hansen and R. Fairbrother.