LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 71, Issue 6137, 17 September 1945, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Welcome Home A welcome home and kitchen evening is being tendered Corporal W. Daniell (ex prisoner-of-war) in the Te Mawhai Hall this evening. For Payment Accounts totalling £35 4s lOd were passed for payment by the Primary School Committee on Friday evening. Inspection Committee Messrs J. Waters and A. S. Prisk were appointed by Primary School Committee to be an inspection committee tor the month. Concrete Driveway The Auckland Education Board advised the Primary School Committee that a grant had been made for a concrete driveway into the new school in Teasdale - Street. The matter was left in the hands of the -works committee. Ruche Street School The Primary School Committee on Friday night re-affirmed its previous recommendation x-to the Education Board that the Roche Street School be vested in the Borough Council conditional on a portion being allotted to the St. John Ambulance. Forthcoming Ball An event that is eagerly being looked forward to is the first annual ball to be held under the auspices of the Te Awamutu Light Horse Association on Tuesday, 2nd October. Dancers are promised an enjoyable night and the date should be reserved by trippers of the light fantastic. Snocker Championships Th? semi-finals and finals of the Thames Valley snooker championships at Morrinsville are being played this week. O. Turkington, of Te Awamutu, is in the semi-finals and the MorrinsStar describes him as a solid type of player who is always difficult to defeat. Dressing Sheds Two shelter sheds at the Roche Street school are to be dismantled and ic-erected as dressing sheds at the new primary school in Teasdale Street. That information was given by the chairman. Mr L. S. Armstrong, at Friday night’s meeting of the school committee. Attentive Listeners 4 . Among those present at t»he Orchestral Recital in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon were a number of children. They were most attentive listeners and their conduct was a model that could be copied with advantage by many adults. It was a pleasing feature of the public’s part in the recital. Oil-burner System An oil-burner system is to be installed in the new school in Teasdale Street. The chairman, Mr L. S. Armstrong, in informing the committee that the architect had offered to see that such was installed, said the committee must bear a portion of the cost. The school is the first to have an oil-burner system installed. It was decided to accept the achitect’s offer and pay their share of the cost. Good Friends Of School The chairman, Mr L. S. Armstrong, at Friday night’s meeting of the Te Awamutu Primary School Committee stated that the response for voluntary labour recently made had not been as great as was expected. Nevertheless, some good work was done in cleaning up. One food Samaritan who, seeing the work in progress, offered to have his tractor-grader brought in from the country to do the work and the generous offer was accepted. Another gentleman who had been unable to join in the working bee sent a donation of £l, so that the school were fortunate in having some very gooa friends. Horse Values “The fool-proof horse of farm type is the hardest horse to buy to-day,” said a valuer before the Hamilton Land Sales quoting valuations he had placed on livestock on a farm at Newstead. He added that at the Cambridge horse sales last week prospective buyers showed a decided preference for horses sold with a.trial. “The trouble to-day is that horses are not worked enough, and some of them go into the sale ring after months of idleness,” said witness. “That type is not worth as much to the ordinary farmer as one that is tractable and willing, and I placed my valuation on this particular animal after I had seen it working on the farm.”

Retirement of Mr J. H. Ansell Mr J. H. Ansell, who has been manager of the Regent Theatre for three and a-half years while Mr W. Tombs

was on active service, terminated his connection with the Regent on Saturday night. Mr Ansell was on loan to that theatre by the courtesy of the Empire Theatre. A pleasant little ceremony took place on Friday night when members of the Regent staff met to express thanks and appreciation of

Mr Ansell’s services as manager. Miss M. Hall, in making a presentation, referred to the happy relations that existed between them and Mr Ansell, and expressed appreciation of that fact. With the gift went best wishes for Mr Ansell’s future. The recipient suitably responded.

Locking For A Site That it was disappointing that the public were not taking more interest in the question of a site for the proposed new school was an opinion voiced at Friday night’s meeting of the Te Awamutu Primary School Committee. Two residents wrote favouring Kihikihi as the site. That the public would wake up to the importance of the subject when it was too late was the viewpoint of another member. Mr J. Waters suggested that the committee should view several sites that had been mentioned. The general opinion seemed to be that the only two sites in the running were Kihikihi and one at Daphne Street. If sanitary and water facilities were available at Kihikihi that would be the only site, was another opinion. The matter was again deferred for further consideration.