SOUTH TARANAKI NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1930, Page 7

SOUTH TARANAKI NEWS

RIVERLEA SCHOOL PICNIC.

CENTURY IN CRICKET MATCH.

The Riverlea people were fortunate in having such a perfect day as Friday for the annual school picnic and sports at Opunako beach. All enjoyed surf bathing and much of the day was taken up with the sports and a cricket match between married men and single. The children’s races resulted:— . Girls 8 to 9: Mavis Lavalle, 1; Doris Dew, 2; Joyce Webby, 3. Boys, 8 to 9: Stan Symes, 1; Ernest 2; G. Anglesey, 3. . Girls, 6 to 7: Ruby Dew, 1; Pearl Dew, 2; Lorna McCook, 3. Boys, 0 to>7: 0. Mclntosh, 1; Clive Kenyon, 2; Eddie Gibbons, 3. , Boys’ sack race: Andy McLeod, 1, K. McLeod, 2; W. McLeod, 3. . Senior girls relay: Flossie Dew, Muriel and Marjory Turner and Minnie Kenyon, 1. Junior girls relay:, Jean Southern, Clarice Mclntosh, Doris Dew and Venus Sangstcr, L' Girls’ sack race: Gertie Rothe and Flossie Dew, dead-heat, 1; Marjory TurMuriel Turner, 4. Hopping race: Mavis Lavalle, 1; Bertha Anglesey, , Joyce Webby, 3. Girls’ three-legged race, No. 1: Jean Southern and Lucy Lavalle, 1; Muriel Turner and Gertie Rothe,2; Venus Sangster .and Clarice McIntosh, 3. Girls’ three-legged race, No. 2: Flossie Dew and Marjory Turner and Margaret Parker and Pearl Dew, deadheat? 1; Bertha Anglesey and Doris Dew, 8;. Joyce Webby and Ruby Dew, 4. Junior girls’ races, No. 1: Marie Fischer, 1; Lorna McCook, 2; Pearl Dew, 8. No. 2: Joyce Webby, 1; Mavis Lavalle, 2; Ruby Dew, 3. No. 3: Beth Gibbons, 1; Lucy Lavalle, 2; Jean Southern, 3. . • Junior potato race: Gertie Rothe, I; Clarice Mclntosh, 2. Senior potato race: Flossie Dew, 1; Venus Sangster, 2; Essie Chapman, 3. Girls’ race (final): Lucy Hatcher, 1; Essie Chapman, 2; Minnie Kenyon, 3. . « a tt *t. Boys’ “wheelbarrow race: Sept. Hatcher and partner, 1; all other competitors fell in a heap. Senior boys’ high jump: Jim Gardner, I; Mick Gargan, 2; ’Jack McCook, 3. Junior boys’ high jump: Bill McLeod, 1; Walter Gibbons, 2; Edgar Hooper, 3. . Junior boys’ relay: Gibbons, Gargan, W McLeod, Bert Chapman and Ted Gardner beat Sangster, A. Dew, E. Hooper, Jack Gardner and Hacker. Senior boys’ relay: Kenyon, A. McLeod, M. Gargan and Jim Gardner beat McCook, Eric Dew, N. Southern and C. Ford. Hop. step and jump: Kenyon, 1; McCook, 2; Gibbons, 3. ■ Senior boys’ race, No. 1: C. Ford and Jim Gardner, dead-heat, 1; Eric Dew, 3. Junior boys’ race, Nb. 1: Tommy Hooper, 1; Bert Chapman and Ted Gardner, dead-heat, 2; Jack Gardner, 4. Senior boys’ race, No. 2: Gibbons, 1$ McCook, 2; A. McLeod and Kenyon, 3. Junior boys’ race, No. 2: Edgar Hooper, I; Dick Voullaire, 2; Norman Southern, 3. Girls’ special: Jean Southern, I; C. Mclntosh, 2; Flossie Dew and Marjory Turner, dead-heat, 3. Boys’ consolation: G. Hudson, 1; Keith Sangstcr, 2; W. Chapman and A. Dew, dead-heat, 3. . , Great interest was taken in the cricket match Married v. Single, all striving to catch the 'selectors’ eye in view of the approaching match with Kaponga. The married men soundly trounced their opponents to the tune of 192 to 94. A feature of the play was the. century by H Harre, who was ably assisted by the stone-walling tactics of E. Chapman and J Kenyon. The bowling of Voullaire and the fielding of J. Symes, sen., were notable. On the day’s play the team is almost certain to be composed of all married men.

RIVERLEA ITEMS. Miss Edith ' Hey, who until recently was on the teaching staff of the Riverlea school, has entered the training college, Auckland. Riverlea school was again successful in winning the shield at Eltham recently in the potato-growing competition, which was open to schools in South Taranaki. HARVEST BALL AT PIHAMA. A SUCCESSFUL EVENING. The Pihama settlers’ annual “harvest home” ball on Friday evening attracted a large crowd of dancers from all parts of South Taranaki and the hall was crowded with a merry throng until the early hours. The function was unanimously voted the most successful of its kind held in the district, the door receipts being over £42. The net profit is expected to be at least £2O, which is to go to the hall funds. The grand march was led off byMr. and Mrs. E. S. Forsyth and the direction of the evening’s programme was capably carried out by Messrs. E. S. Forsyth, A. Clarke, A. McHannigan and A. Campbell. The hall was profusely decorated overhead with red and blue streamers, while on the walls were nikau palms, tree ferns, hydrangeas and sets of crossed pitchforks, emblems of the harvest toil that was over. The decorative work was in the hands of Mesdames \V. Lambie, E. A. Poole and G. Hunt, while the supper arrangements were carried out by the following committee of ladies: Mesdames D. Harrop, P. S. Riley, E. 8. Forsyth, J. D. Conaglen, A. Campbell, E. A. Poole, G. Corkill, A.' Petty, G. Hunt, T. Carey,, J. Hall and Misses McHannigan, Riley, Forsyth, M. Conaglcn, Newsham, Taylor, Dew and Stannaway. The dance music was played by Coburn's star-orchestra and supper extras were contributed by Misses Pollock, Field and Arden, Mrs. Thurston and Mr. Stcffert.

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