WHAREROA.

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 20 June 1933, Page 2

WHAREROA.

(Prom Our Own Correspondent.) |

GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

Recently, a number of members of the Taranaki Education Board met the Whareroa School Committee to confer on matters in connection with the. school. There was some discussion on the advisibility of building a local school instead of using the public hall. As the district is fairly thickly settled it was urged that ample room for a school existed and it is hoped that the matter will not be shelved. The local factory is now' only working every third day and the factory hands arc having their usual winter vacation.

A most enjoyable afternoon "was spent at. the residence of Mrs S. Lareom. of' Beach Road, when a number of 'the ladies of the district met and formed a Whareroa Women’s Institute. Meeting are to be held monthly in the social hall. Oriel, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Laing, of the South Road, met with -what” might have been a serious accident recently. When getting out of a car her coat caught in the door ana the driver, not immediately noticing the occurrence, started the car. Fortunately the child’s plight was noticed before ‘it led to any serious results. Skinned knees and arms and shock kept the child home for a few days, but she is now at school again. Mr and Mrs Raymond Hicks and family arc away on a motor trip to the Auckland district. Mr and Mrs Arcnie Thomlinson and family have returned from a motor tour of the Waitoa and surrounding districts. Mr and Mrs Tozer are away on holiday in the Wellington Province. Mr and Mrs S. Prench are having the round trip (to Auckland through Rotorua, Hawke’s Bay and back to Taranaki. They intend to reside on the Manawapou Road. Miss Violet and Mr Laurence Death wont to Palmerston North to visit the show'. Air and Airs O’Regan, of Hamilton, have been the guests of Mrs Lionel Hicks.

Air and Airs Les Pinny have returned from a motor tour of the Auckland district.