LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The French yacht Korrigane, which was reported overdue, was expected to arrive at Suva last evening, states a Suva message.—P.A.

The annual general meeting of the P.B. A. and P. Association will be held in the secretary’s office, Childers Road, Gisborne, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, 193-5. Air F. R. Ball, chairman of the Power Board, will address a public meeting at the City Hall next Tuesday, April 16, at 8 p.m., when he will explain the board's policy and revieAV the past operations and the pre cent position of this undertaking, which is now playing -such an important part in the economic and domestic life of the community.

Allocations of the .funds from. Art Union No. 38 prize list Ave r e announced last evening by Sir Alexander Young,..Minister of Internal Affairs, avlio explained that the actual profits amounted to £6450. The 'difference between the sum of the profits and the aggregate distribution, £BSOO, was taken from tho Reserve Funtf. Allocations to< various purposes are as follows: Relief of distress £SOOO, Auckland "War Memorial Museum £SOO, Wanganui Men’s Shelter for Relief of Distress £IOO, Canterbury Centre Neiv Zealand Red Cross Relief of Distress among ex-serveemen and their dependents, £250; Citizens’ Day Nursery, Wellington, £150; Waltnngi National Trust Hoard, £SOO. — P.A.

In 1846 the first, settlor took up bis abode in Upper Tlutt —James Brown a Paisley weaver. Tn 1861. the first public school Avas opened: in what is now tho naA'e of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. Avith 30 pupils. In ISGS, tho pupils wore transferred to tho new school erected at Trentham by the Wellington Provincial Government. There are now eleven schools in the area formerly served by the school in 1864. Tim ‘official’ Ruby Jubilee gathering will take place on Saturday; the Thanksgiving Service on the next day (Sunday)—both at the Upper Hutt State School; and ‘Children’s Dav” ivill bp celebrated at Maidstone Park on Monday. April 15. AH ex-pupils are invited to be present.