MAKAKA SCHOOL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 December 1930, Page 6

MAKAKA SCHOOL

NEATLY LAID OUT. EXPERIMENT WITH PASTURES. The master (Mr. W. Middlewick) of tlie Makaka School, on the Upper Mangawhero R.oad above Awatuna, who lias been in charge there but a short time, is anxious to maintain the reputation made for the school grounds ancl has kept them neat and trim, as they have been for several years. Tlie school seemed high points in the competition for the'Tiseli Shield last year and the master will try his best to secure that trophy this year. The lawns surrounding the schoolhouse are kept closely cut, with nice borders, and round the east and north frontages there is a row of ornamental English trees, surrounded by clumps of violas and pansies, presenting a neat and trim appearance. At the southern corner of the grounds is a plantation in a rough piece of marshy ground. In it are "planted eucalypts, maerocarpas and pines, and some English trees are growing well. One corner is occupied by an experimental seed bed of grasses—-English rye, crimson clover, perennial rye. cowgrass, cocksfoot and trefoil. The experiment is designed as a test as to the grasses which will do best in that high , land, a couple of miles off the mountain reserve.