THE SCHOOLS AT PLAY

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1352, 12 March 1928, Page 4

THE SCHOOLS AT PLAY

Fending’s festival for the rising generation on Saturday scored yer. another success. Indeed, tin* sports meeting of the aggregation of schools In a very wide range of country held on Kowlmi Park served to further-

•■niplmsi.se the peculiar gift Feilding possesses in-- organisation. Whilst -no other town in New Zealand holds

ri similar sports meeting for the scholars of the primary schools, no other town can outrival Feilding i» the sustained success of every kind of tourney—hockey, swimming and athletics. Raw materia] for future amateur champions was in evidence on Saturday, for there were some rare contests in the various events. The

introduction of a championship event for the small country schools was

a pronounced success and we warmly congratulate Kopane upon the victory of the scholars of (he soldier settlement. That a school from faraway Manga onoh.o lost the cup by only one point: indicates flic keenness of the contests and the far-flung inlluence of Feilding organisation. Rongotea did splendidly in coming second for the Guthrie .Shield against Manchester Street". Congratulations are again £ue ro the officials and commit lee upon the quick and lmppy dispatch of the many events in a meeting that was also notable for tin* enthusiasm of the young speefalors.