The prize-giving of Te Waipounamu Maori Girls’ School will be held to-mor-row at 3 p.m. at the school, Ferry Road. The Bishop will give an address and the prizes will be presented by Mrs West-Watson. The scholars will give an entertainment on the lawn, including folk-dancing and poi dances. Mrs C. Niven Forrest will have a stall for the sale of fancy goods. St Peter’s Riccarton parish will provide afternoon tea. The council invites friends of the school to be present. One-cighth of the total cotton crop is destroyed every year by the bollweevil in the United States, where insects do damage to the annual value of £400,000,000. A member of the House of Commons and his wife have celebrated their silver wedding by giving a dinner and entertainment to twenty unemployed from the Thames Embankment.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 9
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