WAIMATE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19805, 22 May 1934, Page 3

WAIMATE

MEASLES EPIDEMIC PRIMARY SCHOOL CLOSED The Waimate Primary School which was due to re-open this morning will not resume until Monday next. Yesterday morning the chairman and members of the school commitee met the medical practitioners of the town and sufficient evidence was obtained that re-opening at the present time was not in the best interests of the pupils owing to an epidemic of measles in a mild form. The Waimate High School will resume to-day as arranged. THE WEATHER. Over tlie week-end bright sunny weather of a seasonal nature was experienced in the Waimate district with a succession of frosts, six .degrees being registered on Saturday three degrees on Sunday and three degrees yesterday. Farmers generally are jubilant at the cessation of the boisterous conditions experienced immediately prior to the present spell of fine weather. BREAKING AND ENTERING. On Sunday when the members of the congregation of the Methodist Church assembled for divine service at Hannaton, near Studholme Junction, they were astonished to find that in the vestry a fire had been lighted in the grate and curtains had been removed from the doorway leading into the church and placed over the windows, evidently with a view to preventing the reflection of the light from the fire being seen by neighbouring residents or passers-by. On the hearth at the fire-place was a teapot which had evidently been placed on the fire, together with three cups and spoons and fragments of biscuits. Further investigation carried out in the Nukuroa Hall opposite the Church building, revealed that the hall premises had been entered and that the best rifii owned by the Studholme Miniature Rifle Club, together with a teapot and a quantity of biscuits of the same ownership, were missing. PERSONAL. Mr J. Reid of the staff of the Waimate branch of the Bank of New Zealand left on Saturday to take a relieving position for three weeks at the North Dunedin branch.