URENUI NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1931, Page 16

URENUI NEWS

SPORT, GENERAL AND PERSONAL. An unusual method of conveying good wishes from one dairy company chairman to another was adopted on Tuesday by Mr. A. H. Hansen, chairman of the Terehaunga factory, East Tamaki. Mr. Buckeridge junr., who had attended the meeting in the morning, flew to Waitoitoi with greetings to Mr. J. F. Phillips, chairman of the Waitoitoi Dairy Company, who was presiding at the monthly meeting of directors. To be in time for the meeting Mr. Buckbridge, accompanied by his father, had to make fast time in the ’plane. He made a perfect landing in a paddock near the factory at dusk. Another of the series of euchre parties and dances under the auspices of the Mimi School Committee was held in the school on Tuesday. Owing to the storm there was only a medium attendance. Miss Kathleen Zimmerman won the ladies’ prize with ten games, and Mr. Ken Phillips won the men’s prize with eleven games. Mr. R, Allen supplied the music for the dances. Mr. A. M. Zimmerman was master of ceremonies. The annual Church of England ball to be held in the Urenui hall on August 19 promises to be an outstanding success. Misses Riley, New Plymouth, have consented to give an exhibition of fancy dancing. The committee will give numerous prizes for fancy and “hardup” dresses. At the-monthly meeting of the Waitoitoi Dairy Company the directors sampled some Canadian white full cream cheese. It had stood the trip very well and was of excellent quality and flavour.

Whitebait are beginning to run in the Mimi and Urenui Rivers, and small catches are reported. Catches are generally small at this time of the year and it is not until the willow flowers begin to drop that any good catches are obtained.

Mesdames C- D. Smith (president) and G- Loveridge (secretary), delegates of the Urenui branch, attended the annual meeting of the New Plymouth Plunket Society on Monday.

Mrs. G. Avery, Onacro, is etill an inmate of the New Plymouth hospital. Mr. J. Thompson, who lias been manager of the Waitoitoi dairy factory for the past seven years, has been appointed manager of the Bell Block factory. Mr. Charlie Bicheno, who received severe burns about the face and hands, is reported to be making satisfactory progress. A Possibles v. Probables Rugby match was played at Urenui on Thursday to select r" team from the Uruti, Okoke, Pukcaruhe, Mimi and Urenui schools to play the West End school team at New Plymouth next Thursday. The following- boys were selected: L. Perrott (Urenui); A. Phillips (Mimi), R. Managh (Urenui), E. Baker (Mimi); Gibson (Uruti), D. Managh (Urenui); J. Matuku (Urenui); wing-forward, C. Smith (Urenui); hookers, A. Thompson, W. Raumati (Urenui); E. Millward (Urenui); N. Fraser (Okoke), H. Savage (Pukcaruhe); R. White (Pukearuhe), S. Raumati (Urenui); emergencies, I. Loveridge and G. Geange (Urenui).

The following girls were selected to play West End at.basketball: Jean Riddle," Nora Thompson, Jean Marsh (Urenui), Jean White, Miro Willison, Beulah Luxton (Mimi), Alice Lambert, Nora Wl’ite, Doreen Baker, Phyllis Baker (Pukcaruhe); emergencies, Agnes Scott, Ruth Oxenham (Uruti).

, The football team will be in charge of Mr. Bicheno, headmaster at Urenui, and the basketball team in charge of Miss Elliot. The games will be return matches which have been owing since last season, when West End visited Urenui.

The Urenui first junior Rugby team visited Okato last Saturday and defeated the home team by nine points to nil. Tries were scored for Urenui by E. McLellan, R. Oxenham and W. Shea rd. The second juniors won by default from Old Boys.