SHOOTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 441, 5 December 1930, Page 5

SHOOTING

WANGANUI CLUB SATURDAY’S AIATCHES . AIONTHLY SHOOT RESULTS In fine weather through there was a tricky wind which made shooting very difficult the Wanganui Gun Club held its monthly shoot on Saturday, there being a good attendance of coni petitors, including visiting shots from Wavcrley. Owing to the win u results were not up to standard. The six-bird handicap events was won by D. Smith off 12 yards with all on. Dunlop (16yds) was second with five on, while five others divided third place. The President’s fourth aggregate resulted in J. Wall and Higginbottom tieing for first place. B. Burgess Jnr., and Bates followed close up. The Club’s fourth aggregate produced 12 competitors, Kempton and Cunningham breaking eight each in good style. Six competitors took part in the Double Rise event. Kempton. Dunlop, and Bates scoring four oach, and a second event found Higginbottom aud Cunningham tieing. Tho Long Rise was von by C. Kemp ton, who made three very decided breaks. During the afternoon Airs Kempton very kindly dispensed afternoon tea to those taking part in the shoot. ■* golden trowel enclosed in a wooden casket. “For many years wc have been patientlv for this hostel,” he said, “and our grateful thanks are due to the Minister who has prdvided it. At the boy’s call his school cheered ilyAir Andrew Fletcher of the Fletcher Construction Company, departed from the usual custom of a builder and presented the Alinister with a carved Alaori canoe as a memento of the sionWelcomed by Mr Veitch The Alinister was accorded a cordial welcome by the Alember for Wanganui (Hon. W. A. Veitch) who said that the new hostel could be regarded as a compliment to those who had been responsible for the administration of the Technical College and its staff and pupils. He congratulated the City Council on enabling the present Alinister of Education to provide for a bigger and more up-to-date hostel. “No greater mistake can be made,” Air Veitch proceeded, ‘than to erect a permanent building with a vision of two, three or five years as a future. This building will be standing when most of the pupils here have gone-” Proceeding, Air Veitch said that All Atmore had made his decision that Wanganui was to have a bigger and better Technical College aud negotiations between the City Council and Department were, to all intents and purposes completed with regard to the acquisition of the balance of the area of land. The Minister’s Address Air Atmore made a forceful address, the main part of which was devoted to an explanation of the Recess Committee’s report and of the altered outlook on the system of education. He referred to the workmen engaged on the building and said that they, ci*rrying into elfect the ideas formulated by the Department in Wellington. ,vc;u just as an important part of the gathering as those on the platform. “A great deal has been said, and hightly so, of the Alayor and Council’s action in finding the site,” he proceeded, then continued to deal with the evolution of the system of education and the aims of the present in that regard- He also defended the Recess U< Ji mittcc s report- Coming back to the matter of the hostel he said that he felt sure Air Coates must have laughed as much as he had done ovci what he must term “the battle of the foundation stones.” (Laughter). Here two plans were exhibited, th< one of the hostel as proposed under Mr Coates’ administration and the other of the building now in course of erection Air Atmore said that when Sir Joseph Ward asked him to take the portfolio of Education in 1928 he decided to make allocations of money committed to the Department on a basis governed by knowledge of local conditions. To gain that local knowledge he had been inspecting schools and had already visited 1800 of the 2700 in the Dominion. Urgent Demands “I will make grants to meet the most urgent needs irrespective of who represents the district” the Alinister proceeded. “I am not going to allow partypolitics to obtrude its ugly head on the affairs of education.” (Applause). “The State can, and will, put up better buildings,” he said. “There is nothing too good for the peoples’ college.” (Applause). He appealed for unity in Wanganui so far as education was concerned and pointed to the fact that Air Rogers and Air Veitch, political rivals, had come together in the nrovision of the hostel. That, he said, was an example of emulation by all. “I do not think there should be suppression of effort in educational matters,” he proceeded, “but the State must triumph in the provision of facilities of super excellence.” The Alinister thanked the Fletcher Construction Company for their gift and also Alaster Satyanand and the boys of the hostel. He would treasure what he had been given as souvenirs of a most interesting occasion. The Stone Laid The Minister thereupon laid the stone and deposited beneath it a bottle containing a prospectus of the college a copy of the index (the college magazine) and daily papers, and an explanatory note by the Principal. The inscription on the stone is as follows: This stone was laid by HonHarry Atmore, Alinister of Education, 4th. December, 1930. Board of Governors: W. AL Luxford, c’ ' van, W. Bruce, vice-chairman, Airs A. W. Boyd, Alessrs A. T. Cavcll, F. H. Allen, B. Edwards, G- S. Mowat, J. Patterson. J- Palmer, C. J. Sharpe, E. Smith and W. H. Swanger, Director and Secretary I. E. Newton, ILA., Government Architect, J. T. Mair, A-R.I-8.A., Contractors, The Fletcher Construction Coy. Afternoon Tea The Alinister and party were guests of the college girls and afterwards at afternoon tea in the college cookery room.