REPRESENTATIVES CHOSEN

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1934, Page 10

REPRESENTATIVES CHOSEN

, HAWERA HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. INCREASED INTEREST SHOWN. More interest than for a number of years was shown at meetings at Hawera last night held to elect four representatives on the Hawera Technical High School Board. Voting was necessary in two cases. The four members elected are:— Messrs L. A. Jennings, A. Coleman, A. K. Fyson and P. O. Veale. Mrs. J. W. J. Harding has also been elected as one parents’ representative, while a postal ballot for the other parents’ seat between Messrs W. G. Simpson and T. C. Hobbs sen., has not yet been decided. Mr. Jennings, local bodies’ representative, and Mr. Coleman, employers’ representative, were re-elected unopposed. For the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. R. S. Sage, former chairman, an employers’ representative, a year before his term was finished, Messrs. Fyson and D. G. Smart tied on a ballot. According to the regulations the issue was decided by lot. For a vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. E. A. Lee, employees’ representative, Messrs Veale and A. H. Lewis were nominated, Mr. Veale being elected by seven votes to two. Parents’ representatives are elected by postal ballot, which closed yesterday. Mrs. Hardy was the only woman nominated and was declared elected as provided by the regulations. The result of the ballot for the other seat will not be known till Friday, time having to be allowed for the arrival of votes from country parents. PERSONAL ITEMS. Flying-Officer W. E. Hooper, Riverlea, was the guest at the Hawera Rotary Club’s luncheon yesterday. FlyingOfficer Hooper addressed the club on his experiences in Iraq, where he is stationed with the Royal Air Force. . Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, Manaia, are spending a holiday at Foxton. WAIMATE WEST FARM PROTEST. HERD-TESTING ARRANGEMENTS. The committee of the Waimate West Demonstration Farm at its meeting at Manaia on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction with the methods of the South Taranaki Herd Testing Association. The secretary and supervisor of the association, Mr. E. M. Bardsley,! Hawera, has made a public explanation in reply to the protest. “From your issue of September 14, I was surprised to learn that the committee of the Waimate West Demonstration Farm made ‘strong protest’ against the practice of the South Taranaki Herd Testing Association in not notifying the test date until the morning of the test,” writes Mr. Bardsley. “It is the usual practice of all associations throughout the Dominion to give advice of the pending test after the morning milking, and not later than breakfast time, on the actual day of the test. Of course, previous day notification is necessary in such cases as where members have not a telephone connection or where the testing officer is on a farm without the telephone or where accommodation, or other alteration of usual farm routine, has to be arranged for. “In advising the manager of the farm of the test early in the morning of the actual test day the association, or its officers, were not in any manner varying the usual practice, nor had they any thought or intention of casting a ‘slur’ on the manager, as has been suggested by the committee.”

“ALICE IN WONDERLAND.” NEW AND NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT. Something novel in the entertainment field will be offered at the Hawera Opera House to-day in “Alice in Wonderland,” which has been brought to the screen in astonishingly real fashion. Charlotte Henry plays the title role. Costumes and sets have been copied exactly from the drawings in the first edition of Alice. All of the actors — and the cast includes more than forty big “names”—are made up with equal attention to detail. Miss Henry makes a charming, and very real “Alice.” Paramount had more than 7000 applicants for the role, and could not have made a better choice if 10 times the number had applied, feting credits should be spread generously throughout the entire cast and crew. The audience will like, in particular, the Tweedledum and Tweedledee scene, between Jack Oakie, Roscoe Karns and Miss Henry, and the work of Louise Fazenda as the White Queen. KAPONGA TO-NIGHT. CONAN DOYLE MASTERPIECE. Sherlock Holmes, the world renowned detective, was perhaps the foremost exponent of disguises that fiction has ever known. But it is doubtful, if adept as he was, he could compete with Clive Brook in the art of make-up. The uncanny sleuth continually fooled his enemies with his many impenetrable disguises and even his close friend and faithful ally, Dr. Watson, frequently was unable to identify him. Brook portrays the title role in “Sherlock Holmes,” the new Fox picture, the plot of which is based on one of Conan Doyle’s later stories. He comes to the Kaponga Theatre to-night and in one scene appears disguised as a woman past middle age. It required more than four hours to makeup for this characterisation in which his identity is completely hidden. The supporting subjects to this picture are excellent and include a Mickey Mouse cartoon called “The Grocery Boy.” MANAIA TO-NIGHT. LAUREL AND HARDY COMEDY. An unusual predicament compels Laurel and Hardy to become members of a bandit gang in their latest featurelength comedy, “Fra Diavolo,” which opens to-night at the Manaia Theatre. “Fra Diavolo” is a picturisation of Auber's famous comic opera with Dennis King, the noted singer and stage star, portraying the Marquis de San Marco, who ingratiates himself into the good graces of all the lovely ladies, while stealing their jewellery, with his glorious melodies. Laurel and Hardy are seen as a couple of carefree vagabonds. They have saved their money, and decide to take life easy. Undertaking the career of highway robbers Hardy is sentenced to be hanged, and Laurel is given the job of hangman. The comedians are saved temporarily when they consent to be the personal aides of the bandit chief who is in quest of a beautiful lady’s jewels.