KING COUNTRY NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 608, 9 March 1929, Page 5

KING COUNTRY NEWS

OVERCROWDED SCHOOL Tn order to protect the Taumarunui Primary School children from the ill afreets of dust from the paths, the commute-? is asking the Borough Council tr> . have the adjacent side-walk bitummised.

Reporting to the monthly meeting of the committee, the headmaster, Mr. J. H Lynskev, disclosed an extraordinary Position in the secondary school, at which

the attendance this year has exceeded fll expectations. A total of 163 scholars 15 on the roll, with an average attendance of 157. The school is so over-

crowded that two additional rooms are urgently required. One class, which is suposed to be taught in the science room, 1R 20 hours out of 27} hours in a variety other places, frequently the sheltershed. mm* Flying from Palmerston North for a trophy presented by Air. A. E. Perry, the Manunui Pigeon Club registered the fol-i •owing times:—D. Wilson’s Aussie, I.Uo.9yds a minute. 1; R. Patterson’s Flymg Scud. l.llo.Svds, 2: J. Whittaker s first Acre. 1.105.2yd5, 3; J. Langwell’s Rorraine. 1,092.€vd5. 4; D. Andrew’s Goldman, 1,090.6yd5,‘ 5. * * * The reorganisation of the Tauroarunui Boxing Association has taken anther step forward fn the appointment of th« following officials: —Management J omrnittee, Messrs. E. Collins, R. Phil!'r*. Bakewell, jun.. J. Blair and C. «?per; Match Committee Messrs. Y. "ebb, w. Stevenson, S. Kuypers and C. Williams: hon. surgeons, Drs. E. A ivian and YV. E. Fisher: hon. solicitor, Mr. A. ,• Seaton; timekeeper, Mr. C. Simons; ‘‘erk of scales. Mr. W. Stevenson; seconds. Messrs. W. Dunn and K. Kel'?ud: announcer. Mr. .1 A. Goodsir; Hall ’ Messrs. E. Collins and R. Phillips. The Haiti eke County Council, which has had a good deal of trouble with the collation of mileage returns of motor transport in the countv, has resolved to Prosecute all lorry-owners who fail to “*1 in their returns. The Government health inspector. Mr. s B. Reed, reported to the last meetDg of the Taumarunui Borough Coun*"*l that two cases of enteric fever had oeen notified in the borough, apparently l raceable to bad sanitation where the had failed to carry* nut the sanitary regulations, though notified to do so. The council viewed the position v ery seriouslv, and it was resolved to reQUest thV Government inspector to have u ,Ptoperly cleaned up on the council s “♦half. |