RATAPIKO SCHOOL CONCERT

Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1933, Page 2

RATAPIKO SCHOOL CONCERT

HIGH QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT. An enjoyable school concert was held in the Ratapiko hall on Friday night and was largely attended by residents of the district. Mr. Fryer-Raisher, headmaster of the school, explained that no school time had been wasted in preparation for the concert and all the items to be presented were taken from the ordinary school curriculum. During the interval Mr. W. B. Martin, chairman of the school committee, thankthe audience for their attendance. Mr. Martin referred to the coming election of a school committee and asked for a good attendance at the householders’ meeting. The old committee had always received splendid assistance in anything that it undertook on behalf of the children. An enjoyable item on the programme was a duet by Messrs. B. Dust and A. H. Fryer-Raisher, which was loudly encored. Supper arrangements were in the hands of the ladies’ committee.. The programme was: Songs, “The Watcher,” “Sweet and Low,” upper classes; song, “Rodger is Dead,” lower classes; recitation, “The Bull,” Jack Corbett, Malcom Willians and Ray Karalus; song, “Round the Mulberry Bush,” lower classes; duet, “London Bridge,” Maurine Wright and Harry Willans; recitation, “The Squirrel,” Doug. Edmonds; song, “May Queen,” Joy Eva; song, “Poor Mary,” lower girls; recital tion, “Just Me,” Margaret Telfer; recitation, “Hiawatha,” Kitty Maniiix; duet, “My Pretty Maid,” Kathleen Martin and Margaret Heaine; recitation, “A Fish of the Brook,” Clarice Wilson; song, Joy Eva; recitation, “Jack Frost,” MaUrine Wright; song, “My Little House,” Gerald Long; recitation, “A Garden,” Brian Mannix; songs, “The Night Riders, “Calling the Cows,” upper classes; duet, “Sing Me to Sleep,” Messrs. B. Dust and A. H. Fryer-Raisher, encore, “Little Grey Home in the West’; playlette, “Powder, Rouge and Lip-stick, Miss Verl Hall and Mr. A. Martin. A dance was held at the conclusion of the concert. Music was supplied by Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Hall and Messrs Hall, Dust and Therkleson. Mr. and Mrs. O. Warnock, Wanganui, were 1 the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. Dust for the Easter holidays. Mr. and Mrs. M. Wright, Auckland, spent the Easter holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wells, “Wainui.” Mr. A. H. Fryer-Raisher motored through to Auckland for the Easter vacation. Miss Dulcie Hill spent the Easter holidays with her parents at Ratapiko. I Mrs. Tuck is visiting Ratapiko as the

guest of her daughters, Mrs. J. Lepper and Mrs. N. Downs. Mr. and Mrs. Hall, Lincoln Road, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. Kelly for Easter. Miss Joan Forwood has returned’to New Plymouth. Miss Kathleen Martin spent the school holidays with friends at Stratford. Miss Margaret Gannaway spent the school holidays with her parents at Ratapiko. Mr. and Mrs. V. Dravitzki and Miss Jean Dravitzki have returned from a holiday spent at Auckland. Mr. Austin Gannaway is an inmate of the New Plymouth hospital. . ' Mrs. Geo. Hucker, president of the Women’s, Division, has had to enter a private hospital at Stratford.