MOKOIA SCHOOL LAND

Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1935, Page 10

MOKOIA SCHOOL LAND

AREA MADE AVAILABLE. ANNOUNCEMENT BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Special Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. The Minister of Education, the Hon. S. G. Smith, announces that as the result of representations made by Mr. H. G. Dickie, M.P., and himself in April last the Cabinet has approved of an area of approximately four acres being made available for school purposes at Mokoia. The area is in section 534, Patea district. PERSONAL. Sympathy was expressed with Mrs. W. Howard in the death of her father at the monthly meeting of the Turitown Women’s Institute. GENERAL ITEMS. Mokoia Properties Sold. The Lysaght. homestead and farm at Mokoia, offered for sale on Wednesday and passed in when tire bidding reached £1650, has since been sold to Mr. C. D. Dickie, who was the highest bidder at the sale, by Mr. Allan Evans, land salesman for the Farmers’ Co-operative. Mr. Evans also reports the sale of a small farm property at Mokoia on behalf of Mrs. J. B. Main. Found, a White Butterfly. A Hawera gardening enthusiast brought his first white butterfly this season into the Daily News office yesterday. It was the first specimen of the pest that he had seen this year, and it met a sudden fate while hovering in the vicinity of his cabbage plants. Protracted Argument. Protracted argument was heard in the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday when W. A. Spragg and Son (Mr. J. Foy) claimed £4 8s from C. Olliver (Mr. G. J. Bayley) for repairs to the wheel of a dray. Judgment was given for defendant, who had paid £1 14s into court. Attempting the Impossible. The impossible procedure of electing a man to the committee befpre he was a member of the club was inadvertently attempted at the annual meeting of the Hawera Aero Club. The nomination of Mr. M. J. Burns as a committeeman was about to be put to the vote when the chairman, Dr. W. F. Buist, suddenly recalled that Mr. Burns was not yet a member and a motion proposing him as such was hastily passed to put the position in order. Making an Aerodrome. An idea of the tremendous amount of work involved in making an aerodrome was given by Mr. W. G. Walkley at the annual meeting of the Hawera Aero Club. The procedure at the Waihi Road ground, he said, would be to remove the turf and top-soil over the area, level the sub-soil, replace the top-soil and turf, top-dress and then roll the ground. But for the grant of £5OO from the Public Works Department, and the co-operation of the Defence Department and the Unemployment Board, the club could not have attempted the task. The unemployed at the aerodrome were working splendidly. . Speed of Delivery Vans. Numerous complaints of the speed at which some delivery vans were being driven about Hawera had been received by the police, said Sergeant Henry at the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday. He warned the drivers that action would be taken to combat the menace. ADVERTISERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS. The dance advertised to be held in the Aotea Roa pa, Hastings Road, Okaiawa, to-night, has been postponed until Saturday next, September 14. A bachelors’ back-to-childhood ball will be held at Kapuni on Thursday, October 3. Schedules are available for St. Mary’s annual flower show and sale of work, to be held at Hawera on Wednesday and Thursday, September 1" and 19. The Rambler cyclists’ ball will be held in the winter show buildings, Hawera, on Wednesday. Vinsen's Ambassadors will provide the music. The annual meeting of the Hawera and District Welsh Society will be held at the Rewa Rooms, Hawera, on Tuesday next at 8 p.m. The meeting will be followed by a social. Smith and Trim Ltd. advertise particulars of sales for to-day as follows: At 10 a.m. at P. T. Donnelly’s shop, High Street, shop fittings, shelving, office safe and desk, etc.; at the mart at 1.30 p.m., poultry, hedge, shelter and vegetable plants, seed potatoes, furniture (including Kitchener piano without reserve), canteen cutlery, fruit, etc.; and at 3 p.m. continuation of drapery sale at Arthur’s, Princes Street.’ OPERA HOUSE TALKIES. BEERY IN AERIAL DRAMA. With the shrill scream of. zooming aeroplanes as a background, Wallace Beery comes to the Hawera Opera House to-day at 2 p.m. for a season of two nights and one matinee in the most startling aviation spectacle of the year, “West Point of the Air.” Beery in his role as “Big Mike” gives a dramatic portrayal that surpasses even his performance in “The Champ.” His pathetic love for a son whose conceit almost brings disgrace to the air corps builds into the foundation for one of the most smashing screen climaxes ever filmed. Heading the supporting cast as the young romantic lead is Maureen O’Sullivan, whose recent hit in “David Copperfield” won her great acclaim from critics and public alike. She gives a freshness and vitality to her performance that will win many admirers. Tire most important, role since his smash hit in “The Sin of Madelon Claudet” is filled by Robert Young as “Little Mike,” Beery’s son. MANAIA TALKIES TO-NIGHT. ' “COME ON MARINES!” With soft-hearted marines, obstreperous blondes and cruel, hard-hearted jungle natives, Paramount’s action-pack-ed romance, “Come on Marines,” comes to-night to the Manaia theatre. Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Roscoe Karns, Grace Bradley. Monte Blue, Toby Wing and Fuzzy Knight make up the major part of the cast, which was directed by Henry Hathaway. Warned against getting himself into any more jams or his officers’ training school application would be taken back, Richard Arlen goes ashore and inadvertently runs into a one-time girl friend. His company gets a hurried call to rescue some children from an exclusive school who had been shipwrecked on a bandit-infested island. They rush to the scene of action and find the children are really grown-up beauties.