RAWHITIROA NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1932, Page 6

RAWHITIROA NEWS

SCHOOL COMMITTEE AFFAIRS. The monthly meeting of the Rawhitiroa School Committee was held on Monday evening, Mr. J. Cocker presiding. Also present, were Messrs. G. V. Thame, L. Prankerd and E. Fletcher. The chairman stated that work on the playing field formation-was not proceeding as rapidly as formerly because of the impossibility of obtaining horses and carts, which were all being used by farmers at this busy season. It was decided to apply to the local authorities .for a larger allocation of men under the No. 5 unemployment relief scheme later, when the work could be more expeditiously carried on. At present the two men engaged were doing valuable work on the lawns, tennis court and school fences and in preparing a larger area for the experimental agriculture; plot. The “breaking-up” ceremony will be held pn December 16, details of the function being left to the secretary and the head teacher to arrange. . The head teacher’s report stated that the roll number was 30, and the average attendance 28. Work was proceeding satisfactorily, and the annual examinations were at present, taking place. -During the month the school had been visited by Mr. Rod Syme, agriculture instructor. The secretary was authorised to have the broken glass panels in the interior school doors mended, and to arrange for the lawns to be cut weekly during the summer vacation. Mr. and Mrs. R. Belcher, Egmont Village, spent the week-end with Mrs. C. Belcher, Rawhitiroa. Miss Gwen Silver has returned from a holiday in the north. ' Messrs. H. ,C. Belcher and W. P. Bootten were again very successful with their milking Shorthorn cattle at the Hawera and Stratford shows, most .of the awards in this section coming to the district. POWER LINES OVERHAULED. NO LIGHTS IN, STRATFORD. ; There was a pre-arranged stoppage of all electric power in the Stratford borough area from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Tuesday night, during which time the staff was employed overhauling all the high tension lines and insulators in the northern part of the borough with a view to eliminating any possible chance of wireless interference. Advantage was also taken to substitute a copper container in place of the galvanised iron one on an isolating switch. SWIMMING CLUB NIGHT. RESULTS OF STRATFORD EVENTS. A good attendance of spectators and swimmers contributed to the success of the Stratford Swimming. Club’s weekly sports last night. Results are:— Junior boys’ 25 yards:—First heat: R. White 1, Turnbull 2, E. White 3. Second heat: Reader.!, Baker 2, Cuff 3. Final: Reader 1, Cuff 2, N. Baker 3. • : /■,,.. Junior girls’ 25 yards: P. Villers 1, E. Callaghan 2, P. Lee 3. . Intermediate boys’ 25 yards: H. Bradshaw (7s) "l, N. Turnbull (3s) 2, R. Ross (ss) 3. Senior men, 25 yards free style: G. Vinsen (6s) 1, J. Davis (3s) 2, B. sLonsdale (Is) 3. Senior ladies, 25 yards free style: R. Black (2s). 1, L. Wickham (3s) 2,., C, Marsh (scr) 3. Junior boys’ and girls’ plain dive: Miss E. Callaghan 1, E. Cuff 2, E. White 3. Senior ladies’ plain dive: R. Black 1, L. Wickham 2, C. Marsh 3. Senior men’s 50 yards breaststroke:— First heat: H. Haughton (scr) 1, T. McCluggage (6s) 2, B. Lonsdale (scr.) 3. Second heat: G. Vinsen (12s) 1, A. Robson (scr.) 2, R. W. Girling (scr.) 3. Final: Haughton 1, McCluggage 2, Robson 3. Intermediate boys’, plain dive: N. Turnbull 1, R. Eagar 2, H. Skuse 3. The officials were: Starter, Mr. R. V. Kay; announcer, Mr. W. J. Davis; judges, Messrs. H. Smart, W. Eagar and R. Watson (swimming), Mr. V. . J., Henderson (diving). GENERAL ITEMS. Despite the broken weather, shearing operations in the Matau district are almost completed, which is just as well as the bidi-bidi is rapidly ripening. While crossing the swing bridge at the, end of Cordelia Street, Stratford, on Tuesday evening after the street lights had gone out a. Stratford resident reports that many glow-worms were visible on the bank of the river. ; As there is a bright light at the approach to the bridge, the glow-worms are not usually visible, but at 11 p.m. on Tuesday all electric power was cut off to enable an overhaul of the borough power system. The following will represent Eltham in a bowling match against Avon at Eltham to-day: Linn, Fake, J. Stewart, Harrison (s); Franks, Pennington, Jackson, Tiplady (s); Peacock, Fountaine, Johnson, Jones (s); Judd, McKay, Casey, Brown (s); Manley, Gower, Rowe, Clemow (s).

Intending patrons are advised to book early for the McLaughlin-Naylor professional wrestling match in the Stratford Town Hall to-night. First-class preliminaries will precede the main bout.

A house occupied by Mr. P. Bloxham, Upper Hastings Road, Lowgarth, was destroyed by fire on Monday night. Fire gutted the farm residence of Mr. H. Bloxham, Hastings Road, Cardiff, on Tuesday night. Nobody was in the house at the time. It was a six-roomed dwelling. Nothing was saved. It was feared by the Stratford troop of Scouts that it would be necessary to shift the old Masonic hall in Juliet Street, used as a Scout hall, owing to the alterations that will be made in the route followed by the northern section of the triangle loop that is being constructed by the Railway Department to cope with traffic on the Stratford-Main Trunk line. Now it is found that it is necessary oniy to slew the hall sideways to give the required room for the line and the Scouts’ tenancy will not be disturbed. ELTHAM THEATRE. “MISCHIEF.” c Ben Travers must be very pleased with the film version of his bright novel, “Mischief,” which will be shown tonight. If ever an author got justice on the screen, Travers has beep handed it, by the splendid talent.impounded for this production. Every reader who has been convulsed by the .wit of Travers will find that Ralph Lynn, Winnifred Shottar, Kenneth Kove and at least half a dozen others in this film, have put the breath, (

of life into Travers’ characters. This is British humour at its best, and if there is : any weakness in an artist in “Mischief” it cannot be located in one or two sittings through the picture,