MANAWAHE NEWS
LOCAL AND PERSONAL , Miss P. Walker, our late assistant s mistress, is now relieving at Galatea School. Three schoolboys during a recent week-end went, pig hunting with dogs in the bush. One was knocked off a punga by a sow but they ar-» rived back safely with four young pigs. Miss Joyce Erskine liasi left on an extended visit to Auckland. The local hall was well filled at a farewell evening to Laurence Kendall. Perhaps it w r as through having J heard of police women that caused a boy to write of a police'mam.' Women's Institute Another successful Institute year was finalised at the annual meeting of the Manawahe Women's Institute. Both the president and secretary's# reports revealed that the Institute a motto for Home and Country had been enthusiastically interpreted while the financial report showed a satisfactory balance. The sident, Mrs Logan, welcomed Mrs ' Withy Y.O. and presided over a good attendance. A display of soldiers' knitting was held, while a Patriotic and Institute sales table were well patronised. A number of letters acknowledging the receipt of Patriotic parcels have been received by the Manawaho Committee and all express the plea- > sure our men experience from this source and amply repay any effortentailed in their compilation. Several slight frosts have consid-r erably slowed up the growth of local pasture and vegetable gardens.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 58, 23 March 1943, Page 4
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226MANAWAHE NEWS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 58, 23 March 1943, Page 4
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