INGLEWOOD NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1930, Page 7

INGLEWOOD NEWS

SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) A meeting, of the Inglewood School Committee previous to the householders' meeting, when Messrs. R. Darlow (chairman), I. P. Grant, P. Speechly, W. Armstrong, M. Sutherland, A. Kirk, Feaver and Braybrooke were present, received advice that- the dental nurse (Miss Whiteside) would commence work at Inglewood on April 30. A circular was received from the Education Board about thrift among the children and asking the opinion of the committee regarding daylight-saving and altering the . summer vacation. The secretary reported that the cash in hand was £l3 5s 7d and accounts amounting to £7. 19s 2d were passed for payment', leaving £5 6s sd. After tho householders’ meeting a meeting of the new school committee appointed Mr. R. Darlow chairman and Mr. A. Kirk as secretary. Mr. Kirk, headmaster, stated report forms covering all subjects to report on the children’s progress in their work were urgently needed. Those supplied by the board were not suitable and it was decided to purchase 750, enough to cover the three terms of the year. -The

board was asked to supply more suit-b able forms. Mr. Kirk also reported that the gymnastic apparatus needed fixing and it was decided to have this attended to. GENERAL AND PERSONAL. The fire alarm sounded at 10.30 yesterday morning, the brigade being sum- j moned to a two-storeyed building in ' Matai Street occupied by Mrs. Lovell. The outbreak waa quickly subdued, very little damage ■ being done to the very old building. The cause of the outbreak was a defective chimney. At a meeting last Friday afternoon of the special committee appointed by the general meeting of the bachelors’ carnival promoters to consider the request of the football club that a function be organised to raise funds for its benefit it was decided to hold a- novelty dance and euchre party in the Town Hall on May 29. • ;.U A light motor truck that' had 'seen better days came to grief in Rata Street

>y the silent policeman on Sunday af-. ’ ternoon when one of the back wheels collapsed, every epoke being - broken. The load of firewood had to be stacked in the street while repairs were' made. Mr. C. Evans, while occupied at his work, gashed his hand severely with a knife at Newton King’s garage yesterday morning. He received first-aid and was attended to by Dr. McAllum. Mr. W. Clark, employed by Mr. E. Gibbs, met with a serious accident yes-terday-morning while chopping down a tree on the ' As, the tree was falling he v ..ruck by a limb and tustaiJK’d inj <j to his head and leg. He was conveyed to the New Plymouth hospital and his condition is regarded as serious. The Rev. J. N. and Mrs. Thompson, who have been south on their holidays, have returned to Inglewood. Mr. S. Wanklyn, of the staff of the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand, io relieving at Kaponga.. At St. Andrew’s Anglican Church on Sunday evening Major Robinson, of the Melanesian Mission, gave ft most iiitereoting lantern side lecture on the , mission, He conducted a children's service in the morning.