From Our Correspondent at AHIPARA

Northland Age, Volume IX, Issue 67, 31 May 1940, Page 3

From Our Correspondent at AHIPARA

Purely Personal Master Sam Roberts left on Monday for St. Stephen’s School, Bombay, where he has been awarded a Church Scholarship. Sam, who was football captain last year, should do well in his new school, being a good all round sportsman and scholar. Doctors Parr and Swanson, with Nurses Were and Heslop, performed the third step of the diphtheria immunization treatment for school children. This treatment has incalculable value in combating the diphtheria scourge. It is a treatment which all should take, adults as well as children, and many local residents, realising its worth, availed themselves of the treatment.

Sister Olga Larsen, late of Dannevirke Public Hospital, who recently spent several months’ holiday at Ahipara staying with her aunt, Mrs. P. Braik, has joined the staff of Oroha Private Hospital, Remuera, Auckland. Miss Larsen hopes to give her services overseas, but is at present precluded on account of the minimum age limit. Mr. Farrell, President A.A., and Mrs. Farrell, accompanied by Major and Mrs. North of Ceylon, visited the Ahipara schodl on Friday. Major North, who owns extensive tea and rubber plantations in Ceylon, has four large schools for Tamil and Singalese children on his estates and was particularly anxious to see the Maori school children at work. The visitors were delighted with the native songs and hakas given in their honour In the native language Major North found traces of the tongues of the East, there being several Maori words common to Southern Asiatic languag-

es. The visitors were shown various specimens of landscapes in which they were much interested. Mr. Ringer, of the Schoolchildren’s Safety Movement, was also a visitor to the school. He gave short talks on the elements of road safety, and left copies of the booklet, “The Road Safety Volunteer.” Master Peter Fraser left on Tuesday morning for New Plymouth High School, where he has been attending as a pupil during this year. Owing to the outbreak of scarlet fever at the school the pupils were quarantined in the school during the first week of the holidays. Miss Amy Pikering, who has been visiting Ahipara for some months, returned to Kaikohe on Wednesday.