KING COUNTRY ITEMS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 49, 27 September 1907, Page 2

KING COUNTRY ITEMS.

(OWN CORRESPONnKNT.)

Wki.i.incton, Tuesday. The Colonial Secretary has asked Mr Jennings, M.H.R., to personally prcsc'fl the Royal Humane Society of JJ& Australasia " certificate of merit" to Te Kura Bolan, of Piriaka, King Country (a school girl twelve- years of age), who rcsencd Ona Kilpin from drowning on November joth last, in Wanganui River. In reply lo representation made by Mr Jennings that lands for settlement purchased should be allocated for men with families, and who are engaged in sawmills and bush work in the King Country, the Minister for Lands states that matter will be borne in mind when Government see how they stand after various purchases of Native Lands, which are now in Mr Grace's hands, have been completed. Provision is also being made for workers on North Island Trunk Railway Line. Re the vexed question of raflinglimbcron the Wanganui Kivcr, informs the Member that ' application has been made to the Land Board to proclaim river under The Timber Floating Act, J 884. TE K.UITI PUBLIC SCHOOL, o The term examination of the Te Kuit'i School was held this week, the results being as follow : Standard 1. (maximum marks .120). --■ Elsie Power 103, Alex. Bowden 100, R. Rutherford <)S, Lavinia Plicr 96, Gladys Nicholson <),), and Hapua Hete't ()2. Standard 11. (max. marks 120).• Redmond llelet 100, George Forsyth 96, Fred Gibson 9(1, Mary Joseph 96, Agnes Troup 95, Hilda Wilcox 94. Standard lib (max. marks 12o).-~-Ivan McNaught. 105, Ethel Coggins 10..j, Bertha Jones 104, Tom lleiel 103, Grace Ormsby )(>2, Dorothy Mathew 99. Standard IV. (max. marks 120).--Willie Nicholls 101. Malcolm Hardy 92, Harold Paris 91, Karl Seymour 90. Nellie I Picket 82, Amy Coggins 79. Standard V. (max. marks 120). - Sydney Power 09, Kenneth Kerr 86, Harry Dillicar Si. Standard VI. (max. marks 160). ■--- Norman McNaught 137, Annie Edgar 127L2, Ernest Dillicar 124, Emma Ormsby 120.