40 CHILDREN IN ROOM

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1935, Page 8

40 CHILDREN IN ROOM

ALTON ACCOMMODATION TAXED. As there were 40 children in the senior room its accommodation was taxed to the full, reported the headmaster, Mr. A. Sadler, at the meeting of the Alton school committee this week. The number on the roll was 71. The entries for the home kitchen garden plot competition were promising. Entries in the calf-rearing event were not as strong as in previous years, but were still sufficient to warrant the holding of the competition.

Mr. H. Hodge and the headmaster were appointed delegates to the boys and girls’ clubs’ group meeting at Waverley. There were present Messrs. A. J. Gibbs (chairman), A. Illingworth (secretary), H. Hodge, A. J. Leigh and P. Goile.

GENERAL ITEMS.

Cricket Club Card Party.

' Messrs. T. Smart, W. Newey, J. Newey and H. Payne were the players at tire winning table at a flag five hundred evening in the hall on Tuesday evening in aid of the cricket club’s funds. There was a good attendance in spite of boisterous weather, 12 tables being engaged in play. Individual prizes were won by Miss Marjory Smart and Messrs. Ray Wills and D. Gilmour (tied for men’s). After supper, which was provided by the women of the district, music for dancing was played by Mr. Ray Wills, Mokoia. . False Alarm. The crowd cheered lustily as the winner of the cycle road race at Hawera yesterday passed the post, and a photographer hurled imprecations at obtrusive small boys as he struggled to take a picture. Then it was discovered that the “winner,” having abandoned the race, had come in by car to the Waihi Road corner and that the real winner, Georgetti, was still a mile away. Gifts to Hospital. The matron of the Hawera Public Hospital (Miss Fraser) acknowledges the following gifts to the hospital: Mrs. Capt. Crighton, papers; Mrs. Nicholson, South Road, journals and illustrated papers; Hawera Girl Guides, cake for children; Miss Guy, Kaponga, illustrated papers; Mr. R. F. Page, MTs. A. Larcom and Mrs. Nicholas, flowers; Miss Shirley Walters, children’s books.