Bunnythorpe.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1595, 30 December 1885, Page 2

Bunnythorpe.

(.FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT., December 28th, 1885. The annual school treat took place today. The householders and children numbering about 90 assembled at It o'clock. While tea, and all imaginable good things were being enjoyed by the children, the Committe men where preparing the prizes to ba distributed. About 2 o'clock (ho children were all marched into the schoolroom. After a most suitable address by Mr Dixon, the Chairman distributed about 45 prizes to the children. Before the assembly again resumed their sports, Miss Nellj Dixon, m the name of all the pupils, suitably presented Mrs Boddy the teacher, (who is leaving Bunnythorpe to teach m Feilding), with a silver-plated teapot and butter -dish, as a token of the esteem m which she was held by them all. The following testimonial was given to Mrs Boddy to add to a number she has received from varions schools where she has worked before, by the Chairman. We the undersigned school committee men have much pleasure iv expressing our entire satisfaction with the way m which Mrs Boddv has conducted the school during the time she has been m charge. She leaves us much to our i egret, and carries with her our esteem, and good wishes for the future. Signed : - J. H. Aldrich, Chairman Committee Peter Scheldt Joe Dixon John Col cm an Shere Edwin Clevely Julius Andtrson.

A number of small prizes were ruu for by both the boys and girls, aud ail kinds of out-door games indulged m, until the imperative call of cows ho I brought a very pleasant gathering to • close-. Just before breaking up the mala settlors gathered together m the schoolroom to again discuss that vexing question of the road from Bunnythorpe to> (he Katigitikei Line. It appears that the Manawatu Road Board won't do any more for us. We have to thauk them for some 27 chans of metal just completed by Mr Basset, but that ia not all we want by a long way, nor ia it half what we are entitled to, the settlers are d< terttiined, if possible, that the road shall be made passable if they have, to borrow the money and do it themselves. b-'oine mouths ago a deputation waited on the Board and received all kinds of promises, but baring the paultry bit of metalling above referred to nothing has been done, or likely to be done, unless the settlers take it up them* selves. It was resolved that a d,«pujation wait upon the Manawata Board St their next meeting to ascertain what can be done m the matter.