URUTI DISTRICT NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1937, Page 22 (Supplement)

URUTI DISTRICT NEWS

NOTES AND PERSONAL ITEMS. The . newly-formed Uruti Rifle Club has held a series of working bees at the range on Mr. A. Johnson's property with the result that considerable improvements have ■ been effected. The club hopes to hojd its opening shoot during the Easter holidays. Although a . working bee held on tlie

scliool grounds last Saturday was pooriy supported good work was done. A con- ' siderable area- in preparation for the sowing of lawns was prepared, and_ a drain was also completed. At a special meeting of the Uruti school committee Messrs. C. Prowse, Sellers, Lawrence, A. Johnson and A. Jackson, and Mesdames Jojuison, Lawrence, Prowse and Radcliffe attended. In order to augment the general funds it was decided to begin a series of euchre tournaments in the near future. It was resolved to purchase tiles for drainage of " the new lawn area. Several reference books for the school library will also be bought. Mr. Warren, school inspector, who visited the school last Friday. took with. him a quantity of flowers from the school plots as a gift from the Uruti children to the children of the New Plymouth Hospital. Mr. McKay, senior agricultural inspector, visited the school last Friday. Personal. While driving a mob of wild bush cattle from his Moki property to the Uruti saleyards Mr. . McEldowney was charged by a steer, a hom , being driven through his leg. " Mr. N. Knofflock spent the week-end at' Kew Plymouth. Mr. J. Prowse, who has been an inmate of the New Plymouth hospital, has returned home. Miss Joan Oxenham has been spending a few days at New Plymouth. Mr. P. Dickey. who has been seriously ill at the New Plymouth Hospital, is now recovering. Mrs. J. Haylock, who has been spending a few days with her sister at New Plymouth, has returned home. Miss I. Sarten, who has been the guest of Mrs. G. K. Oxenham, has returned home.