NGAERE SCHOOL JUBILEE

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1932, Page 6

NGAERE SCHOOL JUBILEE

FINANCIAL SUCCESS ACHIEVED.

The committee that organised the Ngaere school jubilee celebrations has finalised its accounts and a credit balance of £l5 is shown. Seeing that the day was so successful socially it is a tribute to the committee that a good financial result was also achieved.

A portion of the amount will be devoted to securing framed photographs of the pioneer residents, ex-pupils, the school children and the tree planting. A sum of £3 will be given to the school library fund and the balance will be retained by the school committee.

DOUGLAS SCHOOL CONCERT.

SUCCESS OF SHORT PLAYS. The pupils of the Douglas school on Friday presented their annual concert to a large an appreciative audience. The concert took the form of two two-act plays in full costume, and Miss Frethey must have felt well rewarded for the time and work expended in the children when she saw their performance, as all entered so wholeheartedly into the spirit of , the plays. It would have been; hard to single out any of the performers as each one, whether taking a principal or just a minor part, did it so well and the costuming throughout was excellent.

The first play, “Snowdrop and the Dwarfs” ‘ found its setting in the King’s Palace and the Dwarfs’ Cave. The principal parts were taken by Edith Jacobs .as King Merlin, Irene Wilmshurst as the Queen, Margaret Walter, as Snowdrop and Burton Reader as the Blue Prince. Dances and songs were introduced and solos were sung by Margaret Walter and Burton Reader. “Come Lasses and Lads,” an old English song play with scenes on the village green and in the gipsy encampment, also was interspersed with dances and songs. Old pupils of the school takmg part were Hazel Wilms hurst as Lady Sylvia, Amy Walter as Susan, a Gipsy, Jackson Brown as Lord Ronald, Laurie Cruickshank as Corydon, a shepherd, and Bill Walter and Rohan Cuff as members of the press gang. Solos were sung by Hazel Wilmshurst, Margaret Walter, Gloria Walter, Eric and Reg. Cruickshank, Jackson Brown, Burton Reader and Laurie Cruickshank.

At the conclusion of the programme prizes were presented to. all the children and after supper the hall was cleared for dancing.

DID NOT STOP TO INVESTIGATE. AN ILLUSION OF NIGHTFALL. They lingered rather long in vain attempts to lure a trout, and the shades of evening were closing fast upon a couple of Stratford fishermen as they stowed away their rods and started for home. Midway across a broad paddock the foremost halted suddenly and pointed a shaking finger towards the outline of a huge Jersey bull ferociously tossing his head and pawing the ground. In consternation the pair fled for the nearest fence, manfully clinging to their paraphernalia. They .fell at times and frequently blundered into obstacles, but after a gruelling . 200 yards sprint they reached the fence and literally tore their way; through. Courage haying returned with safety, they proceeded to circle the paddock and from a vantage point gazed back at the beast they had so timely seen and frustrated. Imagine their discomforture when the “bull” was discovered to consist of a low-growing bush flanked on either side by the waving plumes of a couple of tall toi-tdi stalks, which in the gathering darkness appeared exactly like the tossing horns of a blood-thirsty bull.

GENERAL ITEMS. The unemployment registration figures for Stratford for the week ended on Saturday was one more than for the corresponding period last year, the totals being 148 and 147 respectively, iOf the 148 about 100 are living in the town and the balance in the country. A large proportion of the 100, however, is working in the country, the men going to and fro every day.

The Stratford Borough Council’s "Christmas box” to ratepayers was delivered yesterday. It consisted of final notices regarding payment -of rates. At the monthly meeting of the East Committee of the Egmont National Park Board at, Stratford on Tuesday a letter was received from the Stratford branch of the South Taranaki Automobile Association stating that Messrs. J. C. Allen and W. E. Williams had been appointed delegates from' the association to : the East Committee.

The chairman of the East Committee of the Egmorit' National Park Board, Mr. J. C. Robins, reported at the monthly meeting on Tuesday night that one of the tanks at the Stratford house had collapsed. The Caretaker, Mr. A. Haldane, had thought that a new tank would be Necessary, but he and a relief worker had cut some totara posts from the bush and set the tank up again. The Eltham bowling teams to play Inglewood, at Inglewood, to-day are: Barker, Thomas, McKay, Harrison (s); Linn, Marx, Johnson, Tiplady (s); Franks, Best, A. R. Gower, Jones (s); Judd, McQueen, Rowe, J. Stewart (s); Stanners, Peacock, Fake, Clemow (s); Manley, W. Pennington, Brown, Casey (s).

ELTHAM TALKIES. A SPECTACULAR ROMANCE. Thrills, colour, clever dancing, tuneful songs and an absorbing story of an affectionate husband and a too-perfect wife made Cecil B. de Mille’s “Madam Satan,” showing to-night, an attraction of great entertainment merit. The story concerns the marital differences of Bob and Angela Brooks, a masked ball aboard a Zeppelin, at which exotic and mysterious “Madam Satan” appears, the mid-air crack-up of the airship, the descent of the hundreds of guests via parachute—p|l linked together in a melange of beautiful music, and really spectacular costumes and sets. The principals are Reginald Denny, who sings with power and force; Kay Johnson, a perfect “Madam Satan”; Roland Young, as Denny’s blundering friend; and “Trixie,” ex of the vaudeville stage, the modem and golddigging “other woman.” It has all the exotic feel of a typical Cecil B. de Mills production.