THE FORTY-MILE BUSH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5350, 8 June 1896, Page 2

THE FORTY-MILE BUSH.

OPENING OF THE NEWMAN SCHOOL, The newly erected School at Newman was formally opened' by a concert and dance, given by the Committee and parents on Thursday evening. The building, which is divided into two large rooms each capable of accommodating about ono hundred children, was crowded, thonssomblage largely consisting of the parents and relatives of the pupils. < Mr Charles Biggins, Chairman of the School Committee, presidodtend proved himself a good chairnßrby dispensing with encores and intervals.

■ T h e scliool mi stress—MrsNelson—provided an excellent piano, and the instrumental and vocal items mingled with good recitations by the younger ones made a capital programme. The contributors comprised Meadames Nelson, Parsons and Crook, Misses Dawson, Crook, Monaghan and Robinson, and Messrs Worboys, Hogg, Higgins, Baillie, Morris, Hudson, Dunstall and Cooper. Mr Hogg, M.H.R., by request, addressed the assemblage on the education question, and in the course of his remarks enjoined the parents present to jealously preserve against prejudicial encroachments the prosent free, secular, and compulsory system. After the concert, refreshments, which the ladies had provided in abundance, were handed round, and the romainder of tlio oveuing was devoted to dancing,