TE AROHA NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17956, 5 December 1921, Page 8

TE AROHA NEWS.

s ♦— SUCCESS OF RECENT SHOW.' A HIGH SCHOOL WANTED. [by thleobapb.—own cobbespondent.] TE AROHA, Sntiirday. The executive of the Thames Valley Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Association this afternoon received a statement of the financial position following the recent Gate taking's aggregated £111 19s, extra cattle pens cost £195, printing, stationery and advertising £137 15s. Entry fees' were £188, and other items brought the i receipt* to £792, with a further £95 still, to come in. On the Bhow itself there was j a profit of about £60. Several exhibitors i donated prize money, won by them, and \ several judges intimated that they, did not claim expenses. The chairman, Mr. I J. A. Clothier, warmly eulogised all who i had assisted to make the recent show 1 the huge success it had proved. The association would now be recognised one of the foremost in the province. He believed the Jersey exhibit was the largest and best ever shown in the Dominion, lie hoped the association would continue: to prosper. It was decided x to hold the annual meeting in April next year, and to organise a campaign for doubling or trebling the membership. tispresentatives of the Te Aroha, Waihou, Waitoa, Te Aroha West, Elstow, Tatuanui, and Ngarua school committees, met in Te Aroha to-day-to consider the advisability of having a high school established in the Te Aroha district. Mr. W. W. Maingay, chairman of the Te Aroha committee, presided. It was decided to/ ask .the Board of Education to establish a district high school in this district, leaving the question of site to be determined by the board's advisers. The chairman and secretary of each committee were deputed to prepare a list ojall children who would attend if suich.'a school, iB established.. Objection was taken to chi'dren having to proceed to Hamilton or Thames by train for higher education, and a good case was made for the establishing of either a high school or a district high school in the district. At the conclusion of the routine business at the Agricultural and Pastoral Show meeting this afternoon, "Mr. F. M. Strange, on behalf of the executive, asked Mr. J. A. Clothier's acceptance of a silver cakestand as an appreciation c* invaluable services during his presidency of the association, a position he had filled for several years.