LOWER MANGOREI SCHOOL

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1933, Page 14

LOWER MANGOREI SCHOOL

BREAK-UP LARGELY ATTENDED.

SUCCESSES IN CALF-REARING. The breaking-up ceremony of the Lower Mangorei school was held on Friday night, there being a very large attendance of parents and friends. No school prizes were presented, but four representatives of the executive of the Boys and Girls’ club atended to present prizes won in the North Taranaki calfrearing competitions. Mr. F. Robinson, chairman of the school commitee, presided

He had been in close contact with the school throughout the year, said Mr. W. M. Dill-Macky, agricultural instructor, and had been very satisfied to see the school well to the front in the prize lists. Much of the credit for this success was due to the headmaster, Mr. M. Goldsbury, who was a practical man and had a thorough understanding of farming work. Mr. Goldsbury was always'keen. The clubs’ executive considered it necessary to attend on that occasion to show how much it appreciated the work done at the school, and to present the prizes, said Mr. R. W. D. Roberston. The school achievewed rema-kable success all through, a success impossible without the wholehearted co-operation of Mr. Goldsbury. One of the finest sights in his fifty years’ association with stock, said Mr. Robertson, was the parade of calves at Waiwakaiho the previous weex. Mr. F. W. Sutton congratulated the recipients of prizes and the school on the year’s successes. The object of the competitions was not the winning of prizes, however, but the teaching of boys and girls the proper methods of feeding and rearing young stock. Calves were chosen in most cases because of the comparative ease in handling, but pigs and lambs had also received attention. He had been associated with such work since the inception of the competitions in North Taranaki, said Mr. Sutton, and he had never seen calves to equal those shown at Waiwakaiho. For that great improvement he believed the competitions were largely responsible. The following awards were presented by Mr. W. P. Okey, -.secretary of the clubs:— Douglas Hale: Championship, first equal for condition in pedigree'Jersey section, first for breed type in pedigree Jersey section.

Ruby Weir: Second in breed type in pedigree Ayrshire section. Cyril McKay: Third equal for dairy type in Jersey-Ayrshire section. Cow-judging: Douglas Hale 1, Doris Goldsbury 2, Lily Wipiti 3. Mr. Okey commented on the fact that first, second and third prizes in cowjudging were won in open competition by pupils of the Lower Mangorei school. A concert programme,, arranged by Mr. Goldsbury and the teachers, was presented as follows: Recitation, “Welcome,” Standard 2 girls; dialogues, Nigger drill, and “A Double Engagement,’’ junior boys; song, “My Old' Kentucky Home,” senior girls; recitation, “Kitten s Mistake,” Violet Young; action song, “Rock the Cradle,” junior girls; song, “Some Folks Do,” senior pupils; recitation, Ronald Wallbank; recitation, primer one boys; song, “Bonny Doon,” Ethel Eva; recitation, “The World’s Music,” Eunice Riddick; songs, “The Wedding in Fairyland,” and “My Shadow Man,” Standards 1 and 2 pupils; song, E Pari Ra, Lily Wipiti; recitation, “Going, Going, Gone,” Dugald Huggett; songs, “See Our Oars” and “The Canadian Boat Songs, senior pupils; dialogue, “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe,” junior children; recitation, “An Oversight,” Joyce Bennett; recitation, “Madge the Tomboy, Ethel Eva; song, ‘‘A Fisher Boy,” junior boys; playette, “Little Red Riding Hood, junior pupils; song, “Won’t You Buy My Pretty Flowers,” Flora Davis; recitation, Gladys Goldsbury; children’s session from 6 U. 8., “Uncle Ted” and “Aunt Betty”; song, D’ Ye Ken John Peel, senior pupils; song, “I’ll Telephone Mr. Santa Claus,” junior pupils. Supper was served to children and adults by a committee of parents and the floor was cleared for dancing.