DISTRICT NEWS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5214, 9 December 1927, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

NGATEA. SCHOOL CONCERT. The Ngatea Hall -.was packed, to capacity on Tuesday evening, when a concert was presented by the pupils of the Ngatea school, with the object of raising funds to pay off the debt on the cocoa-making plant, to provide furnishings for the teachers’ common room, and to provide a first-aid outfit, for the school.

Most of the first part of the programme was by the infants, who did marches and dances and sang choruses. Recitations were contributed by Ethel Leonard and George Marchant, and a song by Masters Jack Gribble and Billy Burke. The concluding number was the playlet “The King and the Beggar Maid,” with David Dudding and Katherine Irwin in the title roles, Kathleen Barriball as the Princess, Mary Daley as the aged King, Misses M. Waite, J. Louch, M. Daley, J. Wheeler, and K.' Louch as maids in- waiting, Masters W, Neate and G. Manktelow as pages, and lan Walton, Kate Kneebone, Robert Whitmore, and Margaret Booth as -couriers.

The second part of the programme was by the senior pupils. Part songs, marching, dancing, and drill occupied the greater part. There was a recitation by Jack Vowles, P. Hoffman, Phil. Davidson, and E. Waite, and prior to t-he closing chorus there was a playlet by high school, pupils in which parts were taken by ' Misses S. Manktelow, Marjor'e Elliott, Ethel Heasman, Rosaline Smith, and Masters Jack Shaw and. Vernon Keane.