SCHOOL CONCERT AT PORIRUA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 75, 21 December 1917, Page 3

SCHOOL CONCERT AT PORIRUA

An enoyable concert was given by the Porirua State School in the local hall on 'Wednesday evening. The programme included the stirring choruses, "New Zealand Will be There" and "Our Flag Never Shall Go Down"; a debate among senior boys and girls; "Are AVe Over-educating our Girls?" dialogues, recitations, songs, and a comical drill by the girls. At the interval in the programme Mr. AA'indley (chairman of the School Committee) asked Mr. H. A. AY. M'Kenzie to present the champion soccer banner, silver cup, and seventeen silver medals to the winners, which was done in a very happy vein, interspersed with historio remembrances of the district. Mr. M'Kenzie mentioned that Mr. Levi Sandy and his wife won trophies as far back at 1852 for an heroic rescue at the mouth of the Porirua harbour. Cheers were given for Mr. M'Kenzie, Mr. AA'indley, Mr. AY. D. Bennett (headmaster) and teachers, also for the champions. At the close of the concert the proficienoy and attendance certificates were presented. A movement is now well advanced by the Women's Reform League in Australia to present a battlo-plano to the British Government. This plane will cost £2800—the money is to be raised in New South AYales, and paid into the Union Bank, to bo cabled to the authorities in London. Within two months 'of the requisite amount reaching London tho plane will be in the air. A quiet wedding took place on Saturday last at St. Michael's Anglican Church, Kelburn, when Miss Gertrude Martin, daughter\of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Martin, of Wellington, was married to Mr. Charles Clark, of Maruia, Nelson. The bride wore a simple white crepe de chine frock, the bodice embroidered in heliotrope, blue, and pink, and a white hat trimmed with ribbons of tho She tarried a bouquet of sweet peas and roses, with heliotrope streamers.