WESTPORT NOTES

Grey River Argus, 19 August 1944, Page 8

WESTPORT NOTES

LOur Own Correspondent!, mi t-t i WESTPORT, August 18. Holmlea is due to-night fi’oni Wanganui to load for Picton. Tne Rata is due on Sunday from Castlechff to load for New Plymouth. Mr. J. JyL. Robertson was elected chairman of the Technical Hign School Board of Managers at the annual meeting of the Board on Thursday. Mr. J. H Harkness, who had been chairman for seventeen years, did not seek re-election. Mr. J. Phibbs, Junr., who is leaving to-morrow to join the Air Force, was farewelied by friends on Thursday and presented with a wallet. The possibility that teams from Papanui Technical College may visit Westport to take part in a series of games against a team from the Westport Technical High School was. mentioned at the annual meeting of tne Board of Managers on Thursday. The Westport Technical High School library recently received from the Belgian Vice-Consul for New Zealand a large bundle of literature dealing with Belgium’s part in the war. Mrs. A. Pickering has resigned her position as teacher of dressmaking at the Westport Technical Hign School and the Principal, Mr. J. Metson, has recommended that Miss G. Falconer, Dip H.Sc., be appointed for the remainder of the year. Privates J. Blair, J. H. Poynter and T. Parrish were welcomed nome at a social held at Hector recently. Mr. H. E. Gear, President of the bolciai Club, extended a welcome, and Crs. I. Tyler and S. R. Johnston maae

the club. Mrs. O. Tyler, on behalf of the Comforts Fund, presented each or the guests with a gift.