WAIORONGOMAI.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 234, 24 December 1887, Page 2

WAIORONGOMAI.

Tin-: annual treat to the children attending the Public School was held here on Frid ly, 16th iiist. Tho children assembled at 11 o'clock, and under the leadership of their touchers, Mr Gillies, and Miss Escott, and headed by the local Fife and Drum Band, 1 nnrched through the township with ban- ! ner-? and flag's flying to tho adjacent • p.uldock, whore tho tre.it and sports weie to ta'<e place. The following' were amongst those \Vho took an active part in superintending the pioceedings : —Messrs Baskett, Ilir^t, 11. Goldsworthy, McGarvie, Lovell, and other ladies and gentlemen. Tin 1 ehildien were regaled with a splendid te.i (l»ro\i(U:d bv Mr ftllcry), and with all kitvls ol: cakes, etc > and later on with j lollies, nufc, and strawberries, (the litter ! being very kindly given by Messrs 11. J. I Hawkins and J. James), Games, foot ! l tees, and uth'-r amnfiem/jnti wtro k"pl 'ip with spirit till about live p. in,, when tin; onk-r was given to ro-as-enjblo for the inarch home, and, escorted by the Fife and Dium Band, mMbted by M.-ssrs W. Darby and W.Joy (cornet^). Tho whole aff .ir passed off most pleasantly. In the evening a concert and dance win held in the Public Hall, proceed > in ;iid of the public school fund. The II ill w.n prettily decorated for the. nccision by Mi Lovell ; find the attendance very huge. Mr N Baskett, chairman oH the School Committee, presided. The following programme was gone through in i manner most creditable to all who took part; and several well deserved encores were demanded, and responded to. Drnids March, Fife and Drum Band, with Mr (^Connor as conductor ) song' and chorus, <( Hint? tho bell softly there's crape on the door." Company ; song, " Maggie May," Miss Noiah Ilealey ; piano forte solo, "Wearing of the Green," Mrs W. F. Hunt ;son£, " We mot as strangois meet," Mr Puvitfr; song, (comic in character) "Quite An Fait," Mastej-a Tonge ; song", "The last Rose of Summer," Miss Bsimey; song, <l Kiss the little ones for me," Mr Ellery ; < song* lt Laddy," Miss Iteiu • song) "The Violet," Mr S. L, Hirst ; "The Ooml Insect," by tho School children ; bringing the first part of the programme to a oloso» After a shrtrt interval part t\yo ois'the "'programme commenced with. Relocations by tha Fife apd Dram Band; folJovejJ.by Hig-liluhdl Ping, Master* Tonge ; song, Mr J.-M<3l»iver; «on.? a« (^ chovusi ■ ♦• Swrfet Chiinmg Bells," Coinpnn#'j ! son^ «' Fairy "BoHb^' Misa Hartley ; sonjy, j ''^iUlo sister's gone to sleep," Miss Elleryj song; ""•The oak and the Ivy, " Mr Pttvitt ; song, {i The place where the old liortie died> " Mr W, fc\ Hunt ) eon^ (t 'Hie ship that carrier tuo Home," 3lr Taylo^

rouud,"Good-nifl:lit,"ThB Olrildrcn jaon;?, ••The Flo.ver Girl/ Mltlfl Vaviti The? vniioiis <iccoiupat>imentd i wei'u efficiently played by AlesdultieS fjftvoll nnd Hunt, nml Misses Toj3i>t, Pnvitt mid Kscott. Tlio ch.iinnun in a few wuli chosen reniarU.-) thnnlcp«l the To Aroh.i friends wiio had so kindly ;md ably msmsti'il, and alhi) tho nioinbßl's of the life and diuin bind, and all of how who took part in the carry in 4 out of both troat and concert ; and tho concert closed by tli ■ Niilio'ial Anthen ; nftor which the lull was do nod fur rlaiv.-in"'. which w«i-> ko,»t up with s|iirit till early inui'.iinii — (SnpplitHl).