HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 175, 9 July 1932, Page 8

HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL

ACTIVITIES IN JUNE. PRINCIPAL’S MONTHLY REPORT. The following report dealing with the activities of the Hastings High School during the month of June has been issued by the principal (Mr. W. A. G. Penlington).: — General. —Two performances of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be given by the pupils in the Municipal Theatre on Monday and Tuesday, the 11th and 12th inst. Nearly 100 will be taking part in the production. It has been arranged to hold the pupils’ annual social in the Assembly Hall on July 18. The Gisborne High School football team will play a match here in the afternoon and the members will be our guests at the social in the evening. Members of the High School League have kindly offered to take charge of the supper arrangements. On the occasion' of the visit of two basketball teams from Waipukurau District High School, the visitors were provided with a three-course lunch which was prepared in the school cookery-room by the girls, who brought the vegetables and fruit from their own homes.

The Boys’ Chess Club has resumed its activities, about a dozen boys meeting each week.

On June 8 a party of the girls visited the premises of the “Hawkels Bay Tribune,” where they were shown tho various processes involved in tho production of a paper. Their first annual reunion dinner was held on June 17 by the Old Boys of tho School and tho function was highly successful, about 120 being present.

Forty single desks have been received frffiu the contractor, and the new classrooms are now all furnished. Tho boy prefects were the guests of the Hastings Rotary Club on July 1, when they were addressed by Mr. E. J. W. Hallett on the qualities demanded in business life. Attendance. —The roll-number averaged 451.7 throughout the month, the average daily attendance being 414.1, or 91.7 per cent, of the roll-number. At the end of the month 448 pupils were on the roll (249 boys and 199 girls). The school was closed on June 3, the King’s Birthday. Inspection.—The department's inspectors, Mr. E. J. Parr (chief inspector) and Miss Hetherington, spent three days at the school on their biennial visit of inspection. Their report will be forwarded to the board in due course.

Games.—During the month some very interesting games have been played. In the basketball tournament, which was held on tho King’s Birthday, six teams from the school competed, the A team being runners-up in the senior grade and the B and E teams winning the junior and school grades respectively. We received a visit from basketball and football teams representing the Waipukurau District High School, and the second football fifteen paid a visit to Waipawa. The first fifteen visited Dannevirke for the annual match against the -local high school on June 24, winning by a small margin. They were also successful against Napier Boys’ High School, winning a closely contested game by 6—5. Tho return match, which will bo held about the end of July, is being looked forward to with considerable interest. Our second fifteen played the second fifteen from To Ante College, winning by 11—5 and a team of small boys (under stone) paid a visit to Hereworth School.