DISTRICT NEWS

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4871, 16 July 1936, Page 6

DISTRICT NEWS

WAITANGURU BASKETBALL. (Own Correspondent.) On Saturday last the Mangaotaki girls played the Kohua Road girls on the Pio Pio courts. The game was refereed by Miss Murray (Pio Pio). The Kohua Road team won by 14 goals to 12, after a fairly strenuous game. The Mangaotaki team supplied afternoon tea, it being served in the technical room, a Miss N. Houghton, vice-captain of Kohua Road team, in a neat speech, thanked the Mangatotaki girls for travelling out to Pio Pio, and for the afternoon tea. Miss J. Neal, captain of the Mangaotaki team, replied. After the match most of the team stopped en route for the housewarming at Mr. and Mrs. Jackson's residence, Mangaotaki. The many friends of Mr. Frederikson will be pleased to learn that he is recovering satisfactorily after an operation in the Te Kuiti Hospital. MAIROA COMING OF AGE PARTY. (Own Correspondent). On Saturday evening last, at Mr. and Mrs. White's residence, at Ngapaenga, a party was held in honour of their son's twenty-first birthday. Games, dancing and community singing were the order of the evening. Mr. Ashworth played the piano for dancing and singing. Miss Margaret Thorns danced the Irish jig and the sailor's hornpipe. Mr. S. Tee recited. At supper time the table looked lovely, with the cake and its 21 candles in the centre surrounded by dainties. Mrs. White made and iced the cake. After the bountiful and dainty supper was served, Mr. A. Thorns lit the candles on the cake, and the guest of the honour blew them out. Then 11 of the candles were relit and Margaret Thorns blew them out, as it was her birthday also on the same day. Toasts were then drank to the health of the Maurice and Margaret, and "For They Are Jolly Good Fellows" was sung Maurice thanked all in a neat speech. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. White, Mr. M. White, Miss M. White, Miss A. White (Otorohanga), Mr. and Mrs. W. Thorns (Mairoa), Mr. and Mrs. A. Thorns (Te Kuiti), Mr. and Mrs. Liddy (Otorohanga), Mr. and Mrs. Ashworth (Ngapaenga), Mr. and Mrs. Knight (Ngapaenga), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Ngapaenga), Mr. Were (Mangaohae), Mr. Scott (Mairoa), Mr. Dent (Mairoa), Mr. Miln (Ngapaenga), Mr. Rhodes (Otorohanga), Mr. R. Thorns (Mairoa), Mr. F. Murray (Waitanguru), Mr. S. Tee (Ngapaenga), Mr. L. Miln (Ngapaenga), Miss Were (Mangaohae), Miss S. Henderson (Mairoa), Miss A. Smith (Ngapaenga), Miss M. Murray (Waitanguru), Miss N. Miln (Ngapaenga), Miss J. Lowrie (Ngapaenga), Mary and Margaret Were (Mangaohae), Rosemary Ashworth (Ngapaenga), Kathleen* Knights (Ngapaenga), Margaret, Valma and Len Thomas (Te Kuiti). Maurice, the guest of the evening, played the piano in his well-known lively style as the guests were preparing for home. Basketball. The Mairoa basketball team travelled to Te Kuiti on Saturday to play the Convent teams on the school courts. The Mairoa girls played two matches. They drew, 11 all, in the first game and won, 11 to 8 goals, in the second. The Convent girls provided afternoon tea in the cocoa rooms. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of Pirongia, ai-rived over the week-end, to stay with their daughter, Mrs. Dent, of Mairoa. PIO PIO DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL. FORMATION OF PARENTS' ASSOCIATION. (Own Correspondent.) On the evening of the 9th a meeting of interested parents of the district gathered in the District High School to discuss the formation of an Association of Parents. Mr. P. CCullen was elected to the chair until the formal election of officers was completed. The headmaster, Mr. B. H. Howes, addressed the meeting and explained that Parents' Associations were being formed all over New Zealand, and that Te Kuiti was the latest recruit. It was an organisation of parents to forward the interests of the school and of the children. It could be of the greatest value in raising money for school purposes. The parents would be given every opportunity to keep in touch with the school activities, and by seeing the work done they would better realise the needs of the school. In these times of progress, when business and farms were modernised, it was equally essential to modernise a school. He considered the needs of the school included a gramophone and records, a wireless, a library, a cinematograph, games equipment, and the beautification of the school grounds. He considered that a cinematograph was especially valuable, as it had been proved by experiment that children learnt more easily by seeing a thing than by reading about it. At the conclusion of the headmaster's address, the election of officers took place: Patron, Mrs. C. K. Wilson; president, Mr. W. Crocombe; vice-presidents, Messrs, J. Johnstone and B. H. Howes; secretary, Mrs. P. S. Cullen; committee, Mesdames Larsen, Allison and Rodger, Messrs. A. Watson, J. Kilmartin, E. V. K. Allison, and Bowen.

It was decided to run a dance on August 19 to raise funds, and on July 21 to hold a meeting to lay plans for a Queen Carnival. The subscription of the Association is 2s 6d per family, and all parents are cordially invited to join.