NEWS OF THE DAY

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1935, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Moa Dairy Factory Pay-out. On Wednesday the Moa Co-op. Dairy Co. paid to its suppliers £10,525 9s 6d, being 9d per lb. on 280,7151 b. butterfat.

Tangahoe Bridge Open. The temporary bridge over the Tangahoe River on the main road south of Hawera will be open for motor traffic tomorrow.

History of Moturoa District. The early history of the Moturoa district relating to Maori occupation and European settlement was related by Mr. W. H. Skinner in an address to the pupils of Moturoa school yesterday.

Cyclist’s Machine Damaged. Bent front forks and a crumpled mudguard comprised the damage done yesterday to a cycle, the rider of which struck the back of a motor-car as the latter turned the intersection of Currie and Powderham Streets, New Plymouth.

Primary School Rugby. The primary schools’ annual quadrangular Rugby tournament will be played in Taranaki this season. The four competing teams will be Hutt Valley, Horowhenua, Rangitikei and Taranaki. Clearances for Footballers. >

All Rugby players should have a clearance from the union under which they last played if they desire registration by another union, states a remit from Waikato for consideration at the annual conference of the New Zealand Rugby Union.

Taranaki Scholarships. Thirty-six scholars are at present holding Taranaki scholarships, it was reported to the Taranaki Education Board yesterday. The accumulated balance of the Taranaki scholarship endowment is now £31,086 9s.

Holidays for Show. To enable pupils to attend the winter show at New Plymouth, the Taranaki Education Board yesterday granted town schools a half holiday, add New Plymouth country schools a full day’s holiday on June 14. Gifts to Museum.

At the monthly meeting of the New Plymouth Public Library committee on Tuesday night votes of thanks were accorded Mr. Hugh Good (Stratford) for giving documents relating to the old Armed Constabulary to the museum, and to Mr. Woledge (Manurewa) for the gift of a collection of snail shells and an ivory tooth.

First New Plymouth Pass. Deputy-Custodian Woodhead, of the New Plymouth fire brigade, during the past year passed his examination for the New Zealand Fire Brigades Officers and Members’ Institute certificate, it was stated at the annual meeting of the New Plymouth Fire Board yesterday. He is the first member of the brigade to pass this examination.

Art Union Winner’s Identity. The identity of “Little Jackie,” Post Office, Omona, via Eltham, who won £lOO, sixth prize, in the last art union, has been established. He is Jackie McSweeney, aged 5 years, son of Mr. J. McSweeney, Omona. His grandmother, Mrs. Hopkins, Omona, while at Hawera recently, bought the ticket for her grandson. Pilots’ Easter Camp.

Among visiting pilots who will attend the New Plymouth Aero Club’s pilots’ camp, which begins to-morrow, are Misses T. Hunter and E. Parkinson, Messrs. D. Lethbridge, J. R. Franklin and E. J. Strachan, Wanganui Aero Club, and Messrs. K. Blake (Dannevirke), E. E. Sayer (Carterton) and Chamberlain, of the Wairarapa Aero Club.

Cup for Home Nursing Classes. The announcement that Mr. W. R. Shaw, Hawera, had given a cup for competition among Taranaki home-nursing classes was made at the annual meeting of the Hawera branch of the Red Cross Society last night. The competition will be confined to Taranaki branches, and it is intended to hold a meeting at Stratford of North and South Taranaki branches to discuss conditions for awarding the cup. Private Fire Alarms.

Private fire alarms for such places as theatres and oil company premises were very valuable, said Mr. W. C. WeSton, at the annual meeting of the New Plymouth Fire Board yesterday, in commenting on a recent installation of the kind in a New Plymouth cinema house. There was no compulsion for such alarms, said Mr. Weston in reply to a question, but they were more reliable than the telephone.

“Your Week To-night.” “What about a week for the old men,” asked a member of the Oakura branch of the Farmers’ Union last night, after Mrs. C. J. Harris had briefly explained the arrangements for the “girls’ educational week” which it is proposed to hold at New Plymouth next June. Quietly, but instantly, came the reply, “Oh, you’ve had your week to-night.” As it was then 11.30 p.m., and the meeting had been in progress for over three hours, the retort was appreciated.

Anniversary Day. When the anniversary of the Taranaki province falls on a Saturday or Sunday, schools in Taranaki will observe it by a holiday on the preceding Friday, it was decided at a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday. Mr. W. H. Jones, who presided, said it was a pity the anniversary of the province was allowed to go by without recognition. The spirit of the pioneers deserved recognition. Two years ago it was decided to have a holiday on Anniversary Day, but the day had since fallen on a Saturday and a Sunday. The King’s Jubilee.

New Plymouth school children will parade- on the occasion of the King’s jubilee on May 6 and attend a thanksgiving service at Pukekura Park. Arrangements for the parade were confirmed yesterday by the Taranaki Education Board. Schools will parade in Gilbert Street in their respective groups, where they will be joined by groups that have met elsewhere, and marched off to the park. The entertainment of country school children will be left to the school committees and headmasters. Tire full amount of the Government’s allocation of a grant of money will be available to each school. Disappearing Hatpin.

Losing her hat overboard when a sudden guest of wind blew it into the Wanganui River from the boat on which she was a passenger, an English visitor to New Zealand soon found another hat, but no hatpins. It appears that the latter article, once considered a necessity has no place in modern fashions. After a search of practically every appropriate shop at Wanganui some hatpins were eventually found and excitedly produced.