PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.
- (From Our. Special Correspondent.) Palmerston, November 22. The monthly* meeting of the. High School Board of Governors was held' last night, Mr,, W. N. Collirigwood presiding. Sir Joseph AVard intimated by letter that if he was iii the district at the time he would be pleased to attend the breakingup ceremony of the scliool. . The Terrace End School Committee wrote, suggesting that certificates should be given fo winners of the Cohen Shield essay competition, and it was decided-to adopt the sug-,. gestion, it being .left to the rector to approve a design. . The tender of Messrs. Sollitt Bros, to provide two hundred desks at J3145, for the now school, was adopted. The rector' reported that ho had pur- > chased 240 books for tho school library. The nominal roll number for tbe tfcrm was 180, but of-these five had.lcft : the school. For the same term of ,the previous, year the nominal roll had-'been 158, so .that there was a substantial increase. The usual termexamination liiitj been held,, and had proved very satisfactory. Bennett and Emily Pigptt .had passed the .Victoria College, examinations in- junior-' Latin and' English, and had thus kept their first year's terms as extramural'., students: of the college. Senior freo plates had been awarded to 18 scholars, and five pupils had been granted an extension, of one year. The report of the ITfjchnical Schoot.Committeo was read and adopted." 'The' report of the director 6f; thodTcchmeait'School' was alsn -read. The recently-formed agricultural class, it ' was : stated, was proving a great success. The average weekly roll was as follows:— First term,: 750;. second term, 780; third, 710; average for the year, 746. Tiie averago for the provious year had been 590. .A third Boy Scout corps is about to ba formed in Palmerston. The new company is being, raised at the western end' of the town; ;■' . " " Tho usual meeting of Court.Manawfitu," A.0.F., was held last, niglit, when there was a large attendance, and Bro. Patten, .junr., C.R., presided. One -new member was initiated,. and.-: one - proposed. The next meeting will be a. specially summoned one," when* tho consolidation of the and funeral funds will.be. considered, a and nomination, of officers for the - ensuing term;will-be-taken. ■At a meeting of the Men's Social: Club it was' decided to make an effort to get the upper rooms opened for the benefit ot those willing to pay. a small monthly fee, and a committee was sot up to carry tho proposal into effect. . _ - A rink from the. Terrace End Bowling Club, comprising Messrs. Buchanan, Martin, Turner, and Sollitt (s.), has/put in "a challenge for the Wishart Feathers, at preseEt lield by a.Tiiik of tho PalinsistoE Club. • ' .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 981, 23 November 1910, Page 9
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