AWATUNA TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1929, Page 6

AWATUNA TOPICS.

To a. keenly interested audience of about 50 farmers and others, Mr. Williams, manager of the Patea Freezing Company, made a comprehensive address dealing with, bobby calves and pigs. A vote of thanks proposed by the chairman (Mr. Agnew, Te Kiri) was greeted with unanimous applause. For the purpose of raising money for the women’s division of the Farmers’ Union a euchre party and dance took place in the Awatuna hall last Wednesday when between 50 and 60 people spent an interesting and enjoyable evening. The prizes for euchre were won by Miss Pope and Mr. A. Parkes, while the booby prizes, for which there were four competitors, fell to Mrs. J. King and Mr. Pope. Dances, for which there was ample room, were much enjoyed, the music being supplied by Miss Rene Corbett, Miss Agnes Collins, Te Kiri, and Mr. W. Coxhead. Mr. D. Lind carried out the duties of M.C.

The return Rugby football match between the Awatuna and Makaka schools was played last Thursday afternoon in Mr. D. Graham’e paddock. After four spells of ten minutes each Makaka proved the winners by 12- to nil. Though defeated, the Awatuna boys . showed form much better than that in their previous matches, After the match,

which was refereed by Mr. Hancock, afternoon tea was served by the school girls under the supervision of Miss MeVicar, the assistant’. On Saturday afternoon -a tree .being felled dropped across the telephone wires, cutting off Awatuna completely. "It happened nt an unfortunate time, as a few hours afterwards subscribers were seeking football results, including the All Blacks’ second test. “Howlers” by school children and examination candidates are often quoted, hut frequently one suspects that they are “manufactured.” The following that cropped up at a South Taranaki school, however, are vouched for. It appears that the teacher had had a trying morning instilling into a class the mysteries of profit and loss. Apparently, the lesson had at least made some impression for when in the English lesson which followed one boy was asked the feminine form of “prophet,” his answer came like a shot from a gun. “Loss,” he answered. Not to be outdone, or perhaps to show that howlers, like troubles, never come singly, another pupil upon being asked the part of speech of a certain word, triumphantly declared that it was an “indigestion,” meaning, one imagines, an interjection; possibly of course the “indigestion” referred to might be a» indication of the effect of the profit-and-los# lesson previously given.