DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1919, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

..; m. FUNGAREHUt (From Our Own Correspondent). For the quarter ended September 30, the average roll number at the local school was 49, while the average attendance was 41.3, being 84% per cent, of the roll. Six pupils were absent only one day for the three months. Weather and other circumstances permitting, a return game of rounders between Puugarehu and Rahotu schools will be played at Rahotu on Saturday, nth Inst. The following will represent Pungarehu school: Dorothy Grenfell, Sylvia Grenfell, Nora Jenkins, Ouida Orbell, Margery Layman, Rita Fleming, Peggy Fleming,. Nellie Fleming, Cecil Kirk, Plkltia Pue. It is pleasing to note that the School Committee's appeal to parents to assist the children in collecting bottles, to be sold for tho purpose of supplementing the school improvement, fund, is receiving much practical support, and this Is as it should be. Up to the Bth Inst, the collection of bottles totalled 457. A prize will be awarded at the end of the present month to tho child making the largest collection. Mr. Peter Norris, who met with an accident recently on his motor cycle and had his ribs injured, is, I am pleased to hear, doing well at the hospital, New Plymouth, and will soon be up to his old farm. Private J. Alyward is also at present an inmate of the New Plymouth Institution, but we all sincerely trust that his stay there will not be a lengthy one, and that he will soon be well and strong again. Reference was made at the meeting of the Pungarehu Social Committee on the 29th ult. to the necessity of recognising (in some littlo way) the parents of the boys from this district who made the supreme sacriUce in tbe late war. Tho whole question will be gone into, along With the proposed roll of honor, at next meeting. The question of putting a new branch road (from the Main South road to the factory) through part of the site at present occupied by the blacksmith's shop, is, I understand, being considered -by the local factory directors. The weather, which was somewhat severe in the early part of the week, has now taken a turn for the better. Th warm sunny days that have followed are undoubtedly beneficial to the land.