MANUTAHI PRIZE-GIVING

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1933, Page 8

MANUTAHI PRIZE-GIVING

ANNUAL SCHOOL CONCERT.

The annual concert was presented by the pupils of the Manutahi school on Friday, when the hall was filled to capacity. The concert, which was well received, was presented in two parts, the first by the junior pupils and the second by the senior. The whole of the preparation of the junior portion of the programme was the work of the assistant teacher, Miss Colver. The young children gave a creditable performance, especially in the drill item. The singing of the senior pupils has been in the hands of Miss O’Sulhvan all the year and this greatly assisted Mr. D. M. Jillett in the preparation of the senior items. The generosity of the hall committee in allowing the school to have the free use of the hall for singing and drill throughout the year made very few special: practices necessary and much of the work was taken from the ordinary school course. The programme presented was as follows:—“Three Mice,” “Spring,” “Who’ll Help?” and “The Thrush,” junior pupils; recitation, “Two Spiders,” Jean Coulter; playette, “The Happy Man’s Shirt,” junior boys; drill, junior girls; recitation, “The Selfish Goblin,” Desmond Cornwall; songs, “Coloured Ball,” “Toy Balloon” and “Sleepy Town,” junior pupils; ‘duet, “Japanese Butterfly,” Maureen Bills and Margaret Coulter; songs, “Back Again,” “British Grenadiers,” “Fishermen’s Chorus,", and “Hiking Song,” senior pupils; drill, senior boys; recitation, “Little 80-Peep,” standard 3 pupils; .playette, “Topsy,” Betty Denby, Maisie McQueen and Marjory Smart; group recitations, senior pupils; dance, “Gathering Peascods,” standard 3 pupils; recitation, “Market Square,” Betty Denby; tripping dance, senior girls; songs, “Believe Me,” “Ferry Song,” “Drink To Me Only,” “On Wings of Song,” and two Maori songs, senior pupils; drill, senior girls; dance, “Butterfly,” senior girls; playette, “Home,” including the songs “Jolly Good Company,” “Home Sweet Home" and “Auld Lang Syne,” senior pupils. Mr. A. B. Muggeridge, chairman of the school committee, thanked the public for its excellent support, the children for their successful concert, and the teachers for their work during the year. He introduced Mr. P. O. Veale, Hawera, who presented the prizes. Mr. Veale impressed upon the children that the value of their education lay not in how many facts they managed to store in their heads but in how they learned to think and grapple with new problems. He advised parents to send their children to high school if at all possible as the training they would receive would serve them well throughout their lives.

He then presented proficiency certificates to Murray and Alfred Muggeridge, Rowland Southcombe and Joyce Schwass.

Prizes donated by the Manutahi Dairy Company and Messrs L. R. Hamilton and W. P. Wallace for the 1933 calfrearing competition, certificates gained in root crop and calf work in 1932-33 season and prizes for girls’ work in home industries were presented. 'Dae names of the winners of all these prizes have been previously published. The cup donated by Mr. J. H. Couch for the most improved Manutahi schoolboy at his boxing school was awarded to Murray Muggeridge. Special prizes donated by Mrs. C. Barclay for most improved boy and most improved girl were presented to Margaret Coulter and Raymond Cornwall. Each pupil also received a gift book. Mr. Muggeridge thanked the Rifle Club on behalf of the school for two trophies handed over when the affairs of the club were wound up. These were the Henry A. Lane Cup and the G. P. Anderson belt. In regretting that the trophies should no longer be needed for their original purpose Mr. Muggeridge paid a tribute to the late Mr. T. Geary, who established the rifle club. He also thanked the donors of the trophies for allowing them to be transferred to the school. These were won by Noel Schwass (H. A. Lane Cup) for the champion calf and Alfred Muggeridge (G. P. Anderson Belt) for the champion root crop in the Boys and Girls’ Club. Miss O’Sullivan, who had done much for the school, was presented with a bouquet by Miss Joyce Schwass and thanked on behalf of the pupils by Master A. Muggeridge. Mr. Couch was presented with a case of hair brushes.

After supper, which was provided by the ladies, dancing was commenced to music played by Miss O’Sullivan.

ADVERTISERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The South Taranaki Automobile Association’s service officer will attend at the Winter Show Buildings, Hawera, to-night at 8 o’clock to test headlights.

A farewell and presentation will be tendered Mr. F. W. Mason, ths retiring headmaster of the Turuturu school, at the Foresters’ Hall. Hawera, to-night at 8 o’clock.

LATE TRAIN TO AUCKLAND.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SUCCESS. The running of a special train Hawera to Stratford to connect with the special train to Auckland next Saturday night has been approved by the Railways Department.' The Hawera Chamber of Commerce advocated this at its last meeting and put the case for Ha-

wera to the department.

The train will leave Hawera at 11.15 p.m. on December 23, reaching Stratford at 12.5 on Sunday morning, and connecting with the train which leaves New Plymouth at 11 p.m. and departs/for Auckland at 12.12 a.m. A special south-bound train from Auckland will arrive at Stratford at 3.34 on Sunday morning and connect with a train leaving there at 3.45 a.m. and arriving at Hawera at 4.24 a.m.

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Misses Chittenden, Greagen and Rowden have been appointed probationers at the Hawera hospital.

Sympathy with Mr. E. J. Gifford in a serious illness was expressed by the Hawera Hospital Board yesterday. Constable F. Pidgeon, Normanby, has had to enter hospital for an operation.