Ponanagina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 129, 28 April 1892, Page 3

Ponanagina Notes

(erom oue own co'ebbspondent.) The school committee met and decided to canvas for subscriptions towards a prize fund; After a very successful canvas it was decided to give five prizes for best passes in standards, a prize to each child who did pass and a prize to each child attending the school. On Thursday 14th. the Chairman of the committee and .somdof the, mgmbers, met at .the school .•wdidistnVuted jtbe prizes which consisted Jojf: a Tory, handsome collection of books .juypn^aed^at, Mr Carthews'a, of Feilding. the children gave ibree .cheers for the committee and then the same compliment to the master. The .chairman then announced the holidays toll Wednesday the 29th. On Monday, the 23th., the householders met to elect the committee for the ensu- • UJg year. Eleven gentlotnen were nominated and the ballot resulted in the following: being: elected :— Messrs T. Sinclair, F.. Roberts, H. Jones, H. J. Gawler, B. Bngg, L. Durhng, and A. Ihleim. i?here are 45 children on the roll and the w new committee begin the year with a W balance to credit of about £3. After the ballot was taken Mr H. J. Gawler was elected chairman and the meeting proceeded to business. The committee decided to apply to the Board to 6end a hafc nek and to allow the teacher to put a gate in ike dividing fence for convenience in. going to and from the school. Mr H. Jon63 and Mr Roberts were appointed a visiting committee for the month. I notice that an agitation is being got up for a school on the other side of the river, but as some fifteen children from that side attend the present school aud can cross the river with perfect safety nearly always, it would at present be premature to build one, as it would mean two very, small schools instead of one with a fair attendance. The dry. weather of the past few weeks appears to be broken up now and we may expect some continuance of rain. Altogether it has been a splendid time for the settlers. Burning has gone on well, and the young grass has bad a fair chance to get a start since the last rain, only one or two slight frosts: having come to stop its growth. Two of the respected settlers of Pohangina Had wordy war the other day which culminated in a tussle, some sciatcnes, and a black eye. It seems that one of them, who was on the school committee when they agreed to fence a paddock for the horses of the children attending the school, promised to giye the posts. He split them on 1 the river-bed close to the school, but being turned incontinently out -of the • committee . decided to back out of his promise, so when the eommitteft Btarted to fence, and one of them was deputed to cart the posts to the ground, the donor of posts which did not belong to him resisted the transportation, wiih the above result. However the posts were carted away, with them a horse paddock was fenced in, and. through the mediation of a third party the two belligerents were induced to shake hands, so what promised to be a pretty assault case in Court came to a peaceable endiug.