MARTON NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 243, 14 October 1939, Page 2

MARTON NEWS

DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL, MEETING OF COMMITTEE. A meeting of the Marton D.H. School Committee was held on Wednesday evening. Dr. R. A. Church pre- , Grade and G. C. Thomas (hon. secre- " The Director of Education, Wellington, in reply to the committee’s request for an extension of the subsidy granted by the Labour Department under which one man is employed upon -improvements to the grounds ot the school, advised that after careful consideration, the department regretted that it was unable to see its way to approve an extension of the subsidy after October 7. The" Wanganui Education Board wrote advising that Mr. Keith Harrod, an arts and crafts specialist, had been appointed as assistant teacher to the school to till the position vacated by Mr. E. Klitscher. Mr. Harrod took up his duties on October 2. The board further advised that Mr. P. Earle had relinquished his position of relieving teacher at the school, but. would continue as a supernumerary teacher. The headmaster (Mr. A. W. Tucker) in his report stated that th* al tendance had shown a slight improvement though it was still much below the standard of previous years. •Irregular attendance cannot fail tc be reflected in the number of children who will fail in their examinations at the end of the year.'' he stated. Figures were: Primary roll .331. average attendance -300. per cent, m' attendance 91. Secondary roll 119. av#*raze attendance 109, per <-ent. of attendance 9t. HAWKESTONE GOLF ( LI B. This afternoon a dra ' will l-i.X place at the Hawkestone clubhouse at. 1.30 p.m. for the Way Stableford. Junior players who have not. finished i the second round of the junior chamI pionship ar.? urged to do so without ! delay’. EUCHRE PARTY. In spite of the inclement wcatnei on Thursday night a largo number attended the Catholic puchre party in St. Francis’ Hall, the numbers increasing each week at this popular function. The luckv winners were Miss Amer and Mr. W. Ward. MARTON CIVIC THEATRE ‘GUNGA DIN” Romance and adventure, comedy and thrills emerge in a whirlwind of impetuous, headlong action throughout the colourful scenes of “Gunga Din.” sensational screen drama of British army life in India. The picture opens this afternoon and evening at the Civic Theatre and will also be shown on Monday and Tuesday. Out of the drumbeat rhythm of Kipling’s stirring obyssey of great deeds roar three fighting, loving, swaggering sons of the British Battalions . , . red-blood and gunpowder heroes, towering like giants over the mystic mountains of India . . . blasting their way to the bristling bastile of the bloody bandit hordes . . . their life thunder rolling and crashing over a screen painted with camera strokes so bold, so full of life and action and drama as to make this a movie of movies!