SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1935, Page 8

SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

HAWERA GIRL’S ACHIEVEMENT. CONVENT SCHOOL SUCCESS. Word has just been received that Miss Sheila O’Bren, a pupil of the Hawera Convent School, has been awarded a scholarship in accountancy by the National Business College, Sydney. The scholarship is valued, at £6O. Miss O’Brien will take her diploma in book-keeping this, year-and take up accountancy work in 1936. Miss O’Brien won the silver medal in 1933 for highest marks in the Australian and New Zealand examinations. PERSONAL ITEMS. At a meeting of the Normanby Town Board held on Tuesday evening regret was expressed at the death of Mr. P. O’Dea, who was for many years the board’s legal adviser. Sympathy was expressed with his relatives. Messrs. J. B. Murdoch, Hawera County, and A. R. Bates, Kaponga Town Board, were welcomed to their first meeting of the south’ cpmiriittee of the Egmont National Park' Board at Eltham on Monday. Mr. G. W. Powdrell, for the last three years on the dairy produce staff of Messrs. Henry A. Lane and Co. Ltd. at Hawera, has .- accepted an executive position-With Swift (N.Z.), Co. Ltd., with headquarters at Christchurch. Mr. Powdrell expects to leave for the south to take up his new duties, towards the end of the month. - \ Mr. G. J. Bayley, Hawera, was congratulated. on his appointment as Government nominee, on the Egmont Na-* tional Park Board by Mr. W. G. Walkley,. chairman of the South Committee, at a meeting on Monday. Mr. A. V. Tait,. Kaponga, was appointed a south committee representative on. the board in! place of Mr. Bayley. .The funeral took place privately at the Hawera cemetery, on Monday of Mr. James Bodie, whose death occurred at Hawera on Sunday. The services at the house and at the graveside were conducted by the 'Rev. Canon D. B. Malcolm, and. . the pall-bearers were Messrs. J. Cahill, T. Ash, C. J. Stewart, F. G. Walker, R. S. Allwright and J. Cruickshank.

SCHOOL STEEPLECHASES. HAWERA HIGH SCHOOL EVENT. The annual steeplechases for boys of the- Hawera Technical High School will be held this afternoon. There are large fields in both senior and junior events. The senior course is slightly under four miles. The juniors will be dispatched in heats at 2 o’clock and the seniors at ’2.15 o’clock. From a starting point in the school grounds the course lies by way of Camberwell Road and Vogel Street to South Road. The seniors will turn to the left at Denby Road and proceed as far as the entrance to Mr. W. Pollock’s farm and across country for a distance of approximately a mile and ahalf to a pine grove, where they will turn to the right and cross South Road near Mr. J. Greenhill’s' house, proceeding around a swamp and along the fenceline of Mr. Alex Hunter’s property to Waihi Road. From the corner of South Road and Denby Road the juniors will proceed directly along South Road instead of turning into Denby Road and will link up with the seniors at Mr. Greenhill’s house in the run across country to Waihi Road. The latter highway will be traversed as far as the motor camp, the runners entering King Edward Park sportsground and finishing in a 200 yards’ sprint to the post in front of the grandstand, which will be an ideal vantage point for spectators. TE KIRI NEWS. WAITEIKA SCHOOL SOCIAL. The first of a series of fortnightly euchre parties and dances was held in the Waiteika Road school recently. There was a good attendance. The prize-win-ners were Miss Mackray and Mr. D. Rothery. Mrs. R. Gilberd is in the New Plymouth hospital. Mr. G. Parker is confined to his bed. Mrs. W. Walsh has gone to the South Island to spend a short holiday with her sister. Miss P. Doughty is visiting her sister in the South Island. Mrs. McNaught has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ewart. ADVERTISERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS. Intending competitors at the August festival of the Hawera Competitions Society are notified by an advertisement in to-day’s issue that the schedule of classes is now available. Smith and Trim, Ltd., advertise particulars of mart sales for to-day of *3OO cases of fruit, pumpkins, jam melons and vegetables at 11 a.m. and poultry, roofing iron and household furniture and sundries from several vendors who are leaving the district. Owing to the large offering of furniture the afternoon sale will start at 1 p.m.