CLAY BIRD SHOOT

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1935, Page 6

CLAY BIRD SHOOT

TAUMARUNUI WINS TROPHY. MATCH AT STRATFORD TRAP. Members of the Taumarunui Gun Club competed at Stratford yesterday for an inter-club trophy and won by eight birds in the trophy shoot. The Stratford trap at Messrs. Nelson and Green’s property was used, and there were six shoots.

Mr. G. A. Carter, Stratford, presented the trophy after the shoot to Mr. J. Brown, Taumarunui, who replied thanking Stratford for the hospitality extended the visitors. Details are:—

Six bird match: F. E. Cox (17 handicap), W. O’Brien (16) and H< Pawson (13) 6 birds each, J. Petrie < (16), E. Lightfoot (15) and G. A. Carter (16) 5 each, J. Ozane (15), W. Coxhead (13) and J. Brown (13) 4 each, A. J. Richards (15) 2. No. 2 shoot: Ozane (15), Cox (18), O’Brien (17), Pawson (14), J. Winiki (17), Green (15) and G. Bretherton (16) 6 birds each, Petrie (16), Lightfoot (15), Carter (16) and G. Bretherton (16) 5 each, Coxhead (15) 4, Richards (15) 3.

Twelve birds: Winiki (18) 12, Ozane (16), O’Brien (18), Richards (15), Pawson (15), Carter (16) 11 birds each, Petrie (16), Coxhead (13), Lightfoot (15), Green (16) 10 each, Cox (18) 9, G. Bretherton (17) and J. Bretherton (13) 7. Teams’ shoot off 16 yards: Carter 14, Ozane 14, Winiki 12, Cox 15, Petrie 12, G. Bretherton 15, O’Brien 14, Richards 12, Green 13, Lightfoot 11, J. Bretherton 10, Pawson 12, Power 10, Coxhead 14. Taumarunui 93, Stratford 85. American shoot: Winiki, G. Bretherton and Pawson 10, Cox and Lightfoot 9, Richards, O’Brien, Petrie and Green 8, Ozane, Carter and Power 7. Gimcrack: Carter won with 7 birds and O’Brien and Winiki divided second money. ELTHAM SCHOOL AFFAIRS. GIFTS OF LIBRARY BOOKS. The Eltham school committee met on Friday, when the following report was received from the headmaster, Mr. R. E; Thomas:— The average attendance for February was 321.24. The present roll number is 337. Since the beginning of the new year 30 pupils were enrolled in the infant department. On February 6 Miss E. Rowe left for relieving work at Te Roti and on February 28 Mr.. A. C. Walker left after being present three days. Mr. E. Townsend has been absent on sick leave since February 19. Inspectors C. N. Haslam and J. A. Henry visited the school. On February 14 the annual school excursion to Ngamotu beach was made. The main school leaked badly during the recent flood. . Acknowledgment was made of a generous gift of 50 books from Mrs. G. Cooper. Several children from the classes brought books for the library. The secretary stated that £5O 8s Id was in hand after payment of accounts. ■ The chairman reported that the school picnic had shown a profit of £2 8s 9d, which was not 'as good as in former years. ; ■ The committee expressed thanks to Mrs. Cooper for the books, also to Mr. J. H. Fake for his contribution to the baths. • Repairs to the baths were-left in the hands of Dr. Saunders,- and the headmaster was authorised to spend up to £3 for requisites. ’-A The Rev. J. A. Rybum and Dr. Saunders were appointed a visiting committee. v DEATH OF PRIEST. THE REV. FATHER D. McLAUGHLIN. ■ The Rev. Father Daniel McLaughlin died at Wellington yesterday. He was parish priest at Stratford until a few weeks ago when illness necessitated his admission to a private hospital at Wellington. He had been stationed at Stratford for seven years. He was born at Patea in 1891 and received his secondary education at Mosgiel College. After his ordination in 1916 he was assistant priest at Patea for about a year before his appointment as parish priest at Takapau. After three years’ service at Takapau he was a professor at Mosgiel College for four years. .■ Following his professorship, he was parish priest at Marton for four years before being appointed to Stratford. In 1933 his health failed and he spent a. prolonged leave in Queensland. On his return to Stratford his health was much improved. He became seriously ill a few weeks ago. Both his parents predeceased him, but two brothers, Messrs. A. and P. J. McLaughlin, and a sister, Rose, live at Rawhitiroa.

The funeral will leave the Stratford Catholic Church after requiem mass at 10 a.™, to-morrow.

GENERAL ITEMS. Picnic at Stratford. The Stratford camp site was a busy place on Saturday, when over 200 picnickers arrived for a day’s enjoyment. It was the annual picnic of St. Mary’s Sunday school, New Plymouth, the visitors having travelled by special train. Races and novelty events kept the children entertained all day, the site proving admirably suited to the purpose, and a fair number enjoyed a swim in the adjoining river pool. Appreciation of the facilities afforded by the ground was expressed by the visitors. American Wireless Station.

A further communication from radio station WOWO, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, has been received by Mr. B. Webber, Stratford, in reply to a letter of his in which he enclosed references to the station , made in the Daily News. There was always favourable comment made at the various clubs in Indiana on the publicity the station, city and state received from the New Zealand Press, wrote the station manager. Tennis at Rawhitiroa.

The ladder of the Rawhitiroa Tennis Club at present is: D. Knuckey, E. G. Smith, L. Stretton, A. Phillips, D. Silver, L. Robinson, E. Bond, S. Knuckey, F. Silver, R. Spencer. , > ; Slow Sheep Sale.

Characterising a recent sheep sale at Douglas as “most painfully slow,” the chairman of the Stratford executive of the Farmers’ Union, Mr. T. T. Murray, at Saturday’s meeting moved a resolution urging the stock firms to speed up autumn sheep sales and to devote one special day to a ram sale. Members agreed with the chairman that the sales badly needed accelerating. “It is a wonder last sale did not drive the auctioneers to Porirua,” the chairman added. Dangerous Ditches.

Railway ditches along Ohura Road 'in the Whangamomona county were described at Saturday’s meeting of the Stratford executive of the Farmers’ Union as dangerous to sheep, which, frightened by trains, often piled into the ditches and were likely to smother themselves. Representations will be made to the authorities concerned.