OTOROHANGA NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3392, 24 December 1931, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NEWS

ITEMS OF INTEREST. TOPICS OF THE HOUR. (Our Resident Representative.) The Town Board has decided to tar seal an experimental section of Maniapoto Street, along the lines of similar work laid down at Te Awamutu some years ago.

Miss Wood, for the past five years an assistant teacher at the District High School here, has resigned in view of her approaching marriage. On behalf of the teaching staff the headmaster (Mr C. Hotson) presented her with a handsome reading lamp as a token of esteem and regard. At a special meeting of the Tennis Club, the president, Mr A. Fleming on behalf of members, presented Mr J. Trapski, jnr., a foundation member, with a beautiful and valuable chiming clock on the occasion of his marriage (this afternoon at Kihikihi) to Miss Madeline Corboy. The gift, and the eulogistic references accompanying it, were an evidence of the recipient's popularity. Miss M. Hitchings, Kio Kio, has now been enrolled as lieutenant of the Otorohanga Girl Guides. The School Comjmittee chairman,. Mr H. G. Corbett, has presented higher leaving certificates to ' Archer Chiles (Maihiihi), and Russell Reehal (Otorohanga), and proficiency certificates, to George Cook, Adelaide Bromley, Wallace Finlay, Noeline Fairbrother, Amy Hall, Ewen Guthrie, Irene Henderson, Martha Harris, John Pye, James Litchwark, Sylvia Hodson, Marjorie Palmer, Conway Murphy, Dennis Phillips, Dulcie Simons, Rupert Robinson, Jerry Te Kanawa, Winifred Symes, Trevor MoncriefWright and lan Thompson. Competency certificates to Evelyn Lurman, Lorraine Rowe, Carrol Turner, Jack Briggs and Robert Henderson. Intermediate certificates to Arthur Verner, Roy and Ernest Sanders, Basil Clausin, John McDowell, Augustine Dalziel, Nora Rothery, Lorna Symes, Donald McKinnon, Wikitori Hetet and Winifred Bowyer. The following is the merit list at the annual.examinations: Form 111, Brian Alexander 1, Phyllis Farmer 2; form H, : James Litchwark and Wallace Finlay, equal, 1, Dennis Phillips .2; Form I, Olive Hall 1, Rua Ormsby and Jessie Fiesst. (equal) 2; standard 4, Lloyd George 17, William Walker 2; standard; 3;- Beverley Saunderson 1, Rex Fairbrother 2; standard 2, Kere Te Kanawa 1, Renny Ormsby 2; standard 1, Eunice Hood 1, Joan Anderson 2. '' ''' ■'■ -, , - ■

Dr Gilberd at the same function presented St. John Ambulance certificates to the successful candidates of the first aid class.

; During 1931 the Town Board has reduced, its overdraft on general account by £476 lis Bd. The total rates received, with penalties, amounted to I £756 15s lOd, licenses £lB2 16s, road. I costs £3O 17s 6d, main highways subsidy £l6B 16s, legal,.costs recovered i £l7 2s, sundries £lB7 14s, and colTec- ! tion on heavy traffic £ll 7s, total of j £1,355 8s 4d. The expenditure;,totalled £855 i6s Bd. The! balance of pub- | lib debt owing is £16,567 2s Bd, and this amount includes water loan of £16;303 ss: 16d, town hall v Joans of £1,700 ; < and ;£750, !ro'ads and 'footpaths £1365 13s 4d, and kerbing and channelling ; #2 } 448 3s '6d; Since the introa modern, talkie plant the pictures, has shown a hand-psahie-inet ;-. ,' > '•-.' "'■ ■ ■ ■'"':' '% 'featureof -the breaking-up chil-at'-Kio Kio school .was the Christnlas-tree laden with presents rf the organisation of Mrs Mdnrad; for "the- young people V as in the local hall in the when those successful in the spot 'dance: were Mavis:: Rodgers and Herbert "Strawbridgeah<L Muriel Wallace and Thomas Lithgow. ; : Dur-ing-an interval Kathleen Cumpstone; on- beJhal£*o'f "the- pupils, presented: Mrs Monrad with a'&ystal salad bowl and. two- vases; as -a. memento of the sue-. ' cessful by her for/ rtheir enjoyment.