COBDEN NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1938, Page 5

COBDEN NOTES

joUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Some interesting figures have, been obtained by the teaching staff of the Cobden Scliool in connection with the Milk-in-Schools scheme. In two classes the children were weighed at the commencement of the scheme and again some twelve weeks later. One child, who did' not take the issue, did not make any increase in weight. The others in the same class averaged an increase of 3.961b5. One boy “grew” by S.Blbs. In the next class the average increase was 3.31bs and two of these made an increase of 71bs. It will be interesting to see the results at the end of the year, when the scheme will have been in operation for six months.

On Saturday evening the Cobden Fire Brigade conducted their annual children’s fancy dress ball. There was the usual .good attendance of children in fancy dress, and the picking of the prize-winners was difficult. The following children appeared in fancy dress:—Wilfred Harding (Fireman), Jack Mitchell (Hitler), Peter Butler (Railway Porter), Ray Williams (Chinaman), Kathleen Mclntyre (Indian), Sylvia Kelly (Sun), Jean Mettrick (Nigger Minstrel), Irene Beardsley (Puritan), Shirley Taylor (Sailor), Joan McGowan (Doll), Norma Hayes (Turkish Delight), Marjorie Baynes (Hawaiian), Neil Brailsford (British Empire), Alva Williams (Indian Doll). Lola. Greaney (Baby’s Rattle), Ngaire Hayden (Irish Colleen). Desmond Roche (Boxer), Albert Pic-ken (Chinaman). Colleen Crooks (Spanish <Danc ( er). Razzie King (Ali Baba). Peter Fredericks (Snowman), Lily Allan (Irish Tap Dancer), Alva McArthur (Little Colonel), Dorothy Lindbom and Joyce Inglis (Two Jack Tars), Errol Washer (Dutch Girl), Peggy .Mitchell (Johnny Walker). Jean Adams- (Ugly Sister), Dawn Mitchell (Cinderella), Doreen Dyeming (Ugly Sister), Nola Haydon ; (Ballet Dancer), • Molly Wotton (Gypsy), Betty Lindbom (Irish Doll), [Myra Lindbom (Little While Rose), Eill Greaney (Indian). Murray Guthrie (Scotchman), George McNeill (Whitebaiter), Noel Walkin (Jean Batten), Allan Crooks (Measles), Bernice Roper (Soldier), Margaret Jackson (Girl Skater), Jean Bell (Early Victorian), Lila Sneddon (Flower Girl), Joan Sadler and Helen Brown (Babes in the Wood), Nola Kaye (Swiss Dancer). The following were Ihe prizewinners:—Boys: Albert Picken 1. Bill Greaney 2, Peter Fredericks 3. Girls: Jean Bell 1, Margaret Jackson 2, Alva McArthur 3. Most original Boy: Allan Crooks. Most original Girl: Colleen Crooks. Tiny tots: Ngaire Lindbom 1. Special: Helen Brown and Joan Sadler.