PUKEKOHE HIGH SCHOOL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21882, 18 August 1934, Page 19

PUKEKOHE HIGH SCHOOL

THE ANNUAL CONCERT [from our OWN- correspondent] PUKEKOHE. Friday Tho Pukekohe Technical High School's annual magazine concert in the Strand Theatre, Pukfkohe, last evening, attracted a full house and the standard of the items won rounds of applause. The school choir was heard to advantage in numerous items throughout the evening. Excellent pianoforte solos were given by R. Sneddon and Doris Charles, and dances, songs and recitations by school pupils gained the approval of tho audience. A play, " Five Birds in a Cage," depicting the plight of five people forced to wait in a lift which was jammed between floors, was successfully staged, the players acquitting themselves well. A humorous item, a burlesque wrestling contest, was probably the most popular on the programme. After a lively bout between two diminutive contestants the match was awarded to Tu tat, of Mongolia. Announcements by a pseudp Gordon Hutter, complete with microphone and blind Peter, who was given a ringside position at the front of the gave the finishing touch to the act Before the final item, the principal of the school. Mr. W. F. J. Munro, thanked the audience for their support and applause, and invited all present to join in sinking a verso of the school song.