TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19769, 17 February 1927, Page 2

TAIHAPE

GENERAL NEWS [ From the “ Chronicle’s ” Special i Correspondent, ] On Tuesday afternoon a little girl, I Teresa Hanshy, four years of age, raji i off the footpath, on to the road in Tui Street, Taihape, just as Mr B. Brooky, of Mataroa, was driving piyst in his car. The child was knocked down und one of the wheels passed over her. The girl was immediately taken to the ! Public Hospital where it was found that she was not seriously hurt, and was suffering more from sh(f k than • anything else. | The competitors in the recent 15-lap ■. cycle race at the A. and P. Bhow, are i not satisfied with, the protest commit- ’ tee’s decision and are now lodging i an appeal to the executive of the New • Zealand Cycling Union. Harvesting operations are now over ! in the district and some exceptionally i fine yields are reported, particularly i about Mataroa and Turan gar ere I The prisoner named George W. I Thomas, who escaped from Erua camp, , near National Park, on Tuesday mornj ing, had not been recaptured up to 3 p.m. yesterday. The warders and : police were searching about Taihape * and district yesterday. The Taihape Bowling Club is sending a team to Ohakune to-day to again play a Raetihi-Ohakune team for the Rangitikei Shield. The local representatives will be Shanley, Mortland, Ryan, James, Charles Cherry, Illingworth, Joll. Bandy. The teams will play in Ohakune in the morning and then travel on to Raetihi for the afteinoon play. SCHOOL COMMITTEE I n I At a special meeting of the School i Committee on Tuesday evening the • Rev. E. Bandy occupied the chair. I Also present were: Messrs Loader, i -McCormick, F Read, Parton, Saunders, ( Leighton (secretary) and S. Me Donell, acting-headmaster. The Wanganui Education Board wrote that Mr G. Mills had been appointed assistant teacher in the secondary department pending the appointment of second assistant, and Miss Dulcie Baker as a probationer on the school staff. Anj other letter received from the Board ; in reply to one from the .chairman, stated that the school would have been i painted, only it was on the list of ■ buildings to be remodelled and tire i Board had hopes of carrying out the work in the near future. Mr Me Donell stated that the attendance in the secondary department was most satisfactory anil he asked if the committee would approach the Railway Department with a view to having a carriage put on the 4 p.m. goods train as far as Hihitahi so that the j pupils could get home earlier. Now 1 they had to stop about until 6 o’clock • in the evening, and it was time for i some of them to go to bed when they ■. reached home. If the Railway DeI part m ent did thus he was sure it would : greatly popularise the school and a ; good many more would attend. It was decided that the children I irom Standard 111. upwards be taken | to Wanganui on the occasion of the , visit of the Duke and Duchess of York. The Board wrote that a meal would « bo supplied to the children if required. The train is to leave Taihape at 7.25 a.m. returning about 7.30. The children and teachers will be carried free and they will be met at Wanganui where ail arrangements will be made for their comfort. This outing i s to take the place of the annual picnic for ! the pupils in Standard 111. and upwards, But a day’s outing is to be i given the smaller children on the Tai- •; hape recreation grounds on Thursday, j February 24.