BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32519, 20 December 1944, Page 8

BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS

WAITAKARUJRU SCHOOL SHOW FUNCTION AT BREAK-UP On the last Friday in the school year the children of the Waitakaruru School held a flower show in the infant room, which had’ been decorated in a seasonable manner by the infant mistress, Mrs N. Smart. Mrs J. Pacey kindly acted as judge and expressed her pleasure in the ’display, especially as the recent boisterous weather conditions had l been detrimental to flowers. She paid particular compliment to the primer classes with their entries of button holes and decorated saucers.

An excellent afternoon tea was served. Detailed results: — ■

Primers’ decorated saucer.—Joy Bathurst 1, Dawn -Coe 2, “Muriel McClean and Doreen Taylor dead’ heat 3. Button holes.—Ross Jensen 1, Kathleen Nichols 2, Beverley 'Ganley 3. Classes 1,2, 3, buttonhole. —Shirley Ganley 1, Margaret Gordon 2, Audrey Death 3.

Posy.—Shirley Ganley 1, Ron Thomasen 2, George McGaffin 3. Vase of flowers.—Suzanna Coxhead 1, Shona Leach 2. Decorated saucers.—Heather Hill 1, Shirley Ganley 2, Patty Coe and Dawn Sears 3.

Classes 4,5, 6, stocks.—Joy Bathurst 1, Patsy Donaldson 2. Vase of flowers.—Marie Coxhead 1, Sylvia Hall 2. Delphiniums;—Patsy Donaldson 1, Sylvia Hall 2, Nellie Mosley 3.

Pansies.—Margaret 'Gordon 1, Patsy Donaldson 2, Nellie Mosley 3. Decorated' saucer. —Marie Coxhead 1, Colleen Ganley 2, Joyce Mitchell 3.

Buttonhole. — Colleen Ganley 1, Joyce Mitchell 2, Patsy Donaldson 8. Posy. Hall 1, Patsy Donaldson 2, Margaret Gordon 3. Sweet Pea.—Splendour: 'Patsy Donaldson. What Joy: Patsy Donaldson. Powere Sweet: Patsy Donaldson. Chieftain: Suzanne Coxhead. Mixed colours: Patsy Donaldson, Heather Hill 2, Noeline Wilson '3. Champion bloom: Patsy Donaldson. Reserved champion: 'Suzanne Coxhead. Class 1 boys.—'First prize and special.—Willie ißurdus. Three boys, Dick Burdus, Wayne Hinton and Ron Thomasen, tied for second prize. Class 1 girls.—Valerie Duffin 1, Audrey Death 2. Class 2 boys.—lan McClean 1, Ken Blackler 2.

Class 2 girls.—Muriel McClean 1, Ngaire Blackler 2. Rewards were given to:—Class 1: D. Francis, Geo. Edlin, Colin Death, Joan Olesen, Keith Hellier, M. Hellier. Class 2: Heather Hibell, Kathleen Nichols, Margaret Hellier, June Fair, Trevor Christofferson, Graham Olesen, Ross Olesen, John Mounsey, Conway Stewart, Don Hellier, John Nichols, Barry' Yaegar. Correspondence class. —Heather Hill, Annette Hill, Joyce Taylor, Anne Taylor, D,oreen Taylor, Helen Neale, Judy Laing, Mary Donaghy, Raymond Cox, Desmond Donaghy.