MEETINGS & ENTERTAINMENTS

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 156, 2 July 1907, Page 2

MEETINGS & ENTERTAINMENTS

BIRKDALE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The monthly meeting of the Birkdale School Committee was held on Saturday evening in the schoolroom, when Mr Thos. Scbofield occupied the chair. Messrs J. G. Kay. Thos. M. Shepherd. W. J. McCullough, and Thos. Hadneld were also present.

A circular was read from the Bible-tn-Schools Referendum Committee (Welling ton), and it was unanimously agreed'riot to support the proposals contained therein. It was decided to plant ornamental trees and shrubs in the echool grounds. During the recess held last week the school was thoroughly fumigated. Mr Julian Brook (headmaster) reported that the number of pupils on the roll was 67, with an average attendance of 50.

PONSONBY LITERARY SOCIETY.

On Monday evening last the weekly meeting of the Ponsonby Literary and Debating Society was held in the Leys Institute, Ponsonby. It was an open night, and the programme was provided by the members of the Grafton-road Literary and Debating Society. The visiting society gave a Tennyson evening. Mr C. H. Ralph gave an admirable essay dealing with the life and works of the poet. The essay was a remarkably fine one. and was interspersed with musical selections and recitations as follows:—Song, "Ring Out, Wild Bells," Miss Lamboorne; recitation, "The Revenge," Mr Harold Burton; duct, "Break, Break, Break." Miss Elva White and Mr Hedley Burton: quartette.

"Sweet and Low"; reading from "In Memoriam," Mr C. H. Ralph; recitation,

"Charge of the Light Brigade." Mr Hedley Burton; song, "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead," Miss Gordon; recitation, "In the Children's. Hospital."' Miss Dot Gilmore; recitation, "Defence of Lucknow," Mr AJdred Lawry; and song.

"Crossing the Bar," Miss Elva White. All th? items were of a high order of merit, and the evening's entertainment was most enthnsiastically received by the Ponsouby Society, who tendered a hearty vote of thanks to their visitors. An additional interest was added by the placing on the platform of a flue bust of Lord Tennyson, kindly lent by Mr Graves Aickin for the occasion, and there was a genera' expression \pt opinion that visits such as tfiis shcrald take place more often between kindred societies, '"....'