FEATHERSTON.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 11

FEATHERSTON.

, > Motorists-rfeport .that .the road over, the.'ltiinutaka is. at present. in a very unsatisfactory condition, the surface in . ■ many .places being broken and uneven. It'is suggested that some of' the .worst ptaches or - the' road should be concrete ed. _ Groat intefest.:-is being taken in Martinborough'iii tho' poll ,to bo held there .to-day. (W'dinesdayJ on tho question of altering xhe system of.'ratiug to that on' the unimproved value.. A close conl 'test is c'xpejted. ' Tho Featherston Atliletic Club intends to hold a, sports meeting . next month. ■ Tho.-annual picr.ie in connection: with tlio Soi.ith.F.eatlicrstoh School was held ~last Friday.' There was a largo attend- . anco, and a very successful outing resulted.. Members of the . School -. Committed)' i)-ero energetic in carrying out the arrangements, and-we.ro'■ ably assisted by tho headmaster of the schooli Mr. . J. H. Fieldhouso, and his assistant, Miss Burbush. Sir Walter Buchanan,;,M.P., • was present, and presented the prizes . . won during ,the past year, as follow :— Greatest improvement, Rut!i Yule, sell;', ior division; Horace Bridgewater,..jun- . ior division. First prizes: Standard V,' • Rob.. Pye; ..Standard IV,- Victor Coe.; ' Standard 111, Ethel Henderson ; Stan■dard- I-l, Doris : Henderson.; Standard I,' Harold Burt; Thii;d Primer, Dorothy Scolt.. - : Attendance:. Perfect attendance, ilofri. Pye, Ron. Scott, Harold It*. Burt, Doris Adamson, Harold Burt, Horace' .Bridgewater, Dean Biirt, John; Scott, Emma Wakely, Marjorio Wakely, and Percy'Adamson. Missed not .more, than five iialf days: Effia Burt, Gordon'Biirt, ' Daisy Burt, Githa Willis. All the scliolars wio did not participate-in''the foregoing,, prize '.ist were - presented with suitable gift books. A dance was held •in tho evening. V ' . '