NORMANBY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 11

NORMANBY

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. A meeting, of the executive was held on Friday, when there was a fair attendance, the. president (Mr. E. G. Preston) presiding. A letter was received from Mr. G. G. Patterson, enclosing cheque for £3 3s, to be allotted to the prize fund as the committeecmay deem fit.—Received with thanks. . *

Messrs Galloway and Sons donated one guinea to the funds,, as also did Messrs Gibson Bros., for which theyl received a hearty vote of thanks. - Mr. 0. J.i Hawken, M.P., wrote regretting that owing to a previous en-] gagement it would be impossible for him! to open the show, and wishing the Society eve"ry success. ' __ Mr. G. P. Keogh forwarded a donation of £1 Is, for which he received a vote of thanks. I The secretary of the Manaia Band wrote that owing to the nearness of the Manaia Show the band would be; unable to come this year.* The matter, of arranging for a band was left in: the hands of the president and secretary.

A letter wag received from Mr., A. Paine, asking for the use of the Society's hall for skating. It was decided to let the hall for skating subject to the iisual conditions; 'the charge to be 7s from % to 10 p.m. and 10s for long nights. - The secretary reported that he had seen the secretary of the Egmon£ A. and P. Society re hurdles for the pony jumping, and he had agreed to lend the Societejh^j^uired number, provided they >^H_^_B__Bj_Li_hc next day. All stSß^^^BM^tested to T be in attendance 21st inst. (the day lßssPßjHßfinow). in order to have'the work wefl.Tn'hand; By so doing they will greatly relieve the secretary and executive. . rpb«-: next meetiner of the executive will be held oh Friday, 19th inst.

SCHOOL PRIZES. On Wednesday afternoon a few parents attended at the school, when MrMurray, chairman of the School Committee, distributed the prizes won during the past year. The following are the prize-winners:— Standard Vl—lrene Hatchar.d dux, Amy Aitken, V. Tippett. Standard V —Winnie Slinger, Agnes Hosie, Ivy Parslaw. . Standard IV—Chas. Lennard, Frances White, Evesta Oliver. Standard in—Leo Franklyn, Doris Brisco. Leslie Crawford. /

Standard ll—Lillian Minhinnick, Alena Autrobus. Eric Yorke.

Standard I—Dorothy Autrobus, Bert Hodgson, Reg. H Duggan. Special Progress Prize —V. Tippett. Attendance—F. Forbes, E. Bennett, R. Fatchard. N. Hatchard,F. White, A. White. M. Coxhead.

Gardening Prizes —Boys: Ross Lennard and Russell Cleaver (equal). Girls: Lillian Minhinnick.

THE RACES. The traffic through the town during the race days was particularly heavy, especially motor cars, and although the Town Boawl had men out to- regulate the traffic and to enforce the by-laws, they had a .hard and thankless job. and as a result a large number of invita-i tions to appear at the Magistrate's Court will, I understand, be issued. For some time past some owners of cars arid motor bikes have made themselves a nuisance and a danger to pedestrians by reason of the excessive speed they have travelled at through the town, especially past the school, and now that the by-laws are being -'-t- 'p force it is hoped that this practice will receive a check.