INGLEWOOD NOTES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 48, 18 August 1911, Page 7

INGLEWOOD NOTES

I-1 !!i X~ :v 1 : ' r Own Correspondent.) : sr!'Peach, the superintendent of the School, got a surprise Bn' last. When he went to the \VlTere he kept the missionary -boxfe rn'MJiich'tlie children deposit their f wi|bkW' pijiiriies, lie _ found, like the old !^'ay', ot. read "in "tt'e 'days of 'cj^lflhooft,'tliat "the cupboard was bare," 'iarne Tfrci/iVpetty thief having picked the 1 l'dc'lc d'lid "stolen the boxes, together with 'Estimated at about £l. '".,OiX°jitoMiy 'night the Young Ladies' •rhl'ild held a "Noah's Ark" party in the l)rui'3V' flail, when a very enjoyable : bvemmV'was. spent by a large number •itf-yoiqgiolk.-' ,n ' Oft Wednesday evening, in the Parish '.Hallrllf. BaVewell gave a lecture on i "The Orime of the Defence Act." About seyerify men and boys assembled. The eliaiV was' taken by Mr. Harold Trimble. The /speakw said in an hour and forty 'minutes what could easily have been said i^,fifteen. The audience received the -very comforting assurance that there ■ Was"np r -ffear of an invasion of this country byi'a.n enemy. All the possible had 'either their hands full with ot'he'f;' matters or were too far away. H'e (the"lecturer) knew for certain timi 'there'was'no fear of a Chinese invasion, for',2oo'y'e'ars, at any rate. The morals iofc'fTbnifny Atkins" in India and else\vllere were touched on, and statements mhde which, though undoubtedly true, had no bearing on the Xew Zealand Defence''Act. At the conclusion, Mr. ■Trimble, -in proposing a vote of thanks, said that he had enjoyed the lecture, but that he did not agree with all that had been said. The vote was carried. No questions were asked.