Intermediate School Fair

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 266, 8 November 1941, Page 10

Intermediate School Fair

SOUND PRINCIPLE ADOPTED A first annual fair is to be held at the Palmerston North Intermediate School this afternoon, an announcement of which appears in our advertising columns. This is inaugurated by the Homo and School Association, who have adopted a very sound principle. In the words of the association chairman, Mr. H. A. Seifert, “The public are becoming rather tired of being• waylaid—of constantly giving for no real return. Our committee determined to give good value for the public’s money. We have been enabled to do so by the magnificent response on the part of our children and the ladies not only ,of our committee but as parents of pupils, with assistance also from many of the business people of the city.”

The function will be opened by the Mayor at 2 p.m., but the fair will be actually opened to the public from 1 to 5 p.m. Tho City Band will parade in the Square at 1.45 and march to the school where it will render items during the afternoon, a generosity much appre.ciated. Entrance to the fair is by the main doorway of tho school and the

corridors lead to eight well-stocked, self-contained indoor stalls. There will also be generous afternoon tea accommodation. Additional to the stalls, where will bo sold a wide variety of useful things, there will bo competitions and amusements usual to such functions. One of the competitions amongst tho pupils that will be judged that afternoon is for the best sponge cake, which drew 7 no less than 200 entries, and not all from the girls at that.

Whether the weather be fair or otherwise should make no great difference for the stalls are all safely indoors. Altogether a very splendid show is promised and for such a deserving cause a large attendance should be looked forward to.