NEWS IN BRIEF

Te Ao Hou, July 1958, Page 48

NEWS IN BRIEF A novel feature of the dining hall built recently at Waiohau (near Tekoteko) is a clinic—a side room next to the stage. Here the local doctor, Dr L. E. Spencer of Kawerau, makes regular visits to meet his Waiohau patients. The idea is an excellent one and well worth consideration in the planning of future community halls in isolated districts. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ The Wai Ohorere Rugby Club, formed recently, has been granted affiliation to the West Coast Rugby Union. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ At the Whangara Hui Topu last January, old girls of Hukarere College met the principal, Miss Hunter, to form a Hukarere Old Girls' Association. This was done and the following committee elected: President, Mrs S. Kaa; Vice-presidents. Mrs M. Tureia, Gisborne and Mrs H. Ngarimu, Ruatoria; Secretary, Mrs L. Robin, Hastings; Treasurer, Mrs E. Tawhiwhirangi, Ruatoria; Members, Mrs H. Nepia, Tikitiki, Mrs T. Green, Rotorua, Mrs R. Rewa, Nth. Auckland, Mrs R. Baker, Waikato, Mrs B. Collier, Tokomaru Bay and Mrs M. Davies, Taneatua. The Association decided to raise money for a scholarship tenable at Hukarere by a girl from any part of New Zealand, to be known as the Pilsen scholarship. The building of the swimming baths for Hukarere was also discussed, but no further money is being raised until final estimates are known. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ Mr W. F. Porter, the new Maori Land Court Judge in the Tokerau district, comes from Wairoa where as a solicitor, he was a vice-president of the Wairoa Rotary Club and the force behind the building of a new home for the Wairoa Old Folks' Association. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ Pukehina Maori School will not be transferred to Board control, in spite of a majority vote in favour of the change. The Senior Inspector of Maori Schools, Mr K. Robertson has advised the headmaster, Mr T. Reweti, that “in view of the division of opinion I feel that we have not a mandate to effect any changes and it is not proposed to proceed further in the meantime.”