WHAKATANE AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 11

WHAKATANE AFFAIRS.

I FIRE BRIGADE DINNER. ' CHILDREN" TO SEE \FLEET •- - ■■:: "*• -iy •- ("BY TELEGRAPH. — CORRESPONDENT. WHAKATANE. Wednesday : The annual dinr.er given by the Whaka s tane Volunteer Fire Brigade was helc . in the County . Chambers last f evening ) there being an attendance of about ■ lOC P residents and settlers, , presided over i Captain .W. R. Boon of the brigade. A t musical. programme was contributed j ant " a number of toasts were honoured. Dur £ ing . the evening, the Mayor of Whaka tane, Mr. D. C. Chalmers, presented ser vice medals to Lieut. ;W. . Wright anc e Firemen C. Pearson and Albert Grace anc r certificates to Firemen Currie and Porter, - It was 1 announced: that in view of th< j recent installation of tho high pressure I water supply, in the borough a campaigr t would • soon bo started ~to raise £400 tc d equip the brigade with, modern appliances ■> •• ' About '30 of the children attending th< e Whakatane primary and . high schools wil 3 visit Auckland : during . the visit of th( r fleet: - The children will be in charge o h '. teachers of the " schools and will leav< £ Whakatane on Thursday of next week, ar e riving at Auckland <on the following r morning and leaving again for home or i- the same ' evening. Children from som< g of the outside schools may* accompany 1. the Whakatane party. t Acting on the reoommendation made a y the recent householders' meeting tin e Whakatane School Committee has decide* to take a vote of parents and guardian s in the borough on the question of Bibl< o reading in' the schools as a guide to tin o member for the district when Mr. Isitt' s bill. comes .up . for •; consideration in Par a liament. A sub-committee has been set uj n to make the; necessary' arrangements fo il the taking of the vote. . ' .*"* —— 1