LADY’S LETTER FROM GREYMOUTH

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1745, 16 August 1905, Page 24

LADY’S LETTER FROM GREYMOUTH

(By “Sylva.”)

The Chairman of the Greymouth Education Board has given notice to move at the next meeting of the Board that steps be taken to elect a new School Committee. The present committee have not held a meeting dnring the three months they have been elected as the male membra refused to s’.t with the ladies- chosen. Parents and teachers alh-agree that the present deadlock has caused the most- serious inconvenience to the school and its affair®.

The monthly meeting of the Musical Club was held at Mrs Basson’s on Wednesday evening. The composers chosen for the month were Chopin and Somerset. Pianoforte solos illustrative of Chopin’s compositions were rendered by : —Miss K. McLean, “Impromptu in Aflat;” Mis W. Thomas, “'Valse No. 12;” “Polonaise No. 2,” by Mrs T. Thomas; “Vais© in A flat,” by Miss Guthrie; “Nocturne,” by Mxst Creasy; “Polonaise,” by Mrs Cadzow. Violin solos were given by:—Mr G. Holder, Mr McCarthy, and Mr. Apted, and Somerset’s songs were “Miss Perkins. “Pray for Us;” “Where’er You Go,” by Mr Dill-on; “Hush Me O Sorrow” by Mrs McQueen; ‘“Dawn” by Mrs Har“Song of Sleep,” by Miss C. Yarrall; One More,” by Miss M. Basson; “Across the Blue Sea,” Mr H. Harley. A ladies’ medal match, the lourth in competition for the trophy, presented by, Mr Johnstone (Wanganui), was held on the golf links last Saturday. Ms© Ke-t----tie who made a net score of 55, won th© match; Miss Hulda Skoglund be.ng 2nd, and Mrs Henry 3rd. The championship take® place on Saturday. We announce with deep regret the death of Mrs Fairhall at her residence in Marsden road. This lady was one of the oldest residents of the town, having arrived with her husband in the early sixties. She leaves a large fam.ly of grown-up sons an.d daughters to mourn their loss', a ud sincere sympathy is extended to them in their bereavement.