TURAKINA NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11582, 24 May 1916, Page 6

TURAKINA NOTES.

From Our Own Correspondent

A meeting of the School Com- | mittee was he’d on Saturday to | consider the state uf the school ; building. It was reported teat the i poor is rotten in different places, j the spouting old ami useless, and . the water tanks leaking badly, As , it will require a considerable sum ; [n remedy these detects, and the | Education’ Board have for long , promised to erect a new seboo., it ; was resolved that the clerk write to ; the Board again and call their attention to tiieneed of erecting a ; new school. , Five soldiers ct the Fourteenth j Contingent connected with this j district are at present on their hnal | leave. Tiiey are Messrs Clark. ; Franke, Hammond, Haruood and Feigh. A social and dance was held : in their honour and to give them a ■ send-off on Monday evening There ; was a fair attendance, ami a plea* ant evening was spent. Tnree seddiers connected with the district. Messrs Knox, McLuehlan and Managh, leave this week with tue Thirteenth Comtiugent, Now that our men are at the I-rench fiont, deep interest will he taken in theii doings, and anxietv felt by their relatives and friends until peace comes and they return home, The cheese factory usually c.oses at the end of May. but this veai owing to the abundance of grass securing a goad supply of milk, operations will be continued into the month of dune. Quantities el the excellent cheese ate being ‘ bought by the Government for, the needs of the men at the iicnt.