TIKORANGI DISTRICT NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1932, Page 6

TIKORANGI DISTRICT NEWS

GENERAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS.

An excellent concert was broadcast from 2YB New Plymouth on Wednesday by a number of pupils of the Tikorangi school. Messrs. J. Garner, I. Vickery, W. Metcalf and Vickery senr. motored the children to town. < The warm spring rains have brought on the growth wonderfully in the district and ensilage-making has started on various farms. Shearing is also in full swing. Numerous farmers in the district are ploughing and a large acreage of turf has this year come under the plough. The schoolboys’ cricket team played a Westown team at Waitara on Friday. Tikorangi won by a run. ; . Two car-loads of members of the Women’s Institute went to Ngaere on Friday to be present at the half-year-ly council meeting of the Taranaki Federation of Women’s Institutes. Mrs. A. Whitehead (vice-president of the Tikorangi’ Institute and a member of the executive committee) made the three-minute speech on of Tikorangi and Mrs? R. Morey (president of the Tikorangi Institute) made a short speech on handicrafts. Mr. and Mrs. 0, Foreman motored to Auckland at the end of last , week to attend the spring race meeting. Miss J. Davidson, of the New Plymouth hospital nursing staff, is visiting her home in the district. Mr. M. Morey, of the staff of the National Bank of New Zealand at Stratford, is on annual holiday and is visiting his parents in the district. ■Miss L. Fletcher, New Plymouth, is yuA+.i-ng Mrs. A. O. Whitehead.