DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1920, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

WAI-TOI-TOI. (From Our Own Correspondent.) A meeting of tire M'imi School Committee was held 011 Tuesday evening last. Present,— Messrs. ,1. Ross (chairman), J. Phillips, J. Cannon, p. Spurr, and G. Baker. Hie inspector's report 011 the recent examination was read as follows :—Rca<lliig, very MieHing, St. 1, si, 5, fair; Su 3> very t'lir; St. 2, gooil, Si. 4, very good, St. li, excellent. Comprehension, etc., very fair; composition, fair to very fair and good; lower standards well trained. Grammar, good In ail standards. Writing, good In all standards. Arithmetic, St. weak; ( St. li, very fair; St. 1. - and 4, good; St. Ji, very good, geography. term tests satisfactory answered; history, term tests s*tlsHaoi«rily answered; drawing, good in all standards; handwork, plasticine, paper and carton, nature study, etc., seasonal studies of plants and animals, weather, physical instruction, very Ijood; singing, V(!ry fair; needlework, very good; general efficiency, very fair to very eood; order, discipline, etc., very good. Buildings and grounds: The building consists Of two rooms, one of whicli lias recentlybeen added. The present teacter is working under difficult conditions, being compelled to divide her pupils (50) between these two rooms, thus making the supervision and instruction exceedingly awkward. If, however, the attendance keeps up the school will be entitled to an extra teacher who, under the special circumstances, should be appoints at the earliest passible opiportun ty The results of the examination show that the teacher is using modern and up-to-date methods with commendable skill and earnestness. The conditions, however, under which she has worked during the last three or four months have considerably nillicated agajist the progress of the pupils. The accommodation In the old room was so limbed that seating arrangements could not be obtained for several of the pupils. To this may be added the noise necessarily made ,n connection with ttie building of (lie new room, and it can be imagined how the, circumstances must have Interfered with the teacher's work.

3illker reported having procured the necessary posts for the proposed fence round .1 e school, and it was agreed t.o secure labor to do the work as soon as possible. The matter of procuring prizes for the childi"! tiff. J ? i l s ™, sied ' 11 wm eventually ajreed that Mcsdanies I'. Spurr and J. Phillips (0 . nether with the teacher (Miss Nolan) be asked to select suitable books, it was decided to make application to the Board for an assistant teacher, as the attendance was so largely moused that the work was too much for one teacher.

I understand it l as been suggested bv Mr. "■ I igott (chairman of the Clifton Countv Council) that one of the two guns presented ,L T , V T Defenci ' Department should be erected in the Urenui s-1.00l grounds. This, wi(h the handsome memorial 'olumn already erected in the cemetery, wil. sene as a iilstorie.il memento of the Great Hjir in years to come.

One day l ;lst week ~o lilll be 3ei-| j)q s " ,lm i uise learns at work r n dif. eront farms, some plowing, oti.ers harrow- " I " " ; ,rillin "" ln "°P S for <he com--11 autumn anil winter. To show how the Islrlrt has imj.ro, e,I, l| m | e i lt bo ra . mione ,, I'M., the wliolo of (hem were working within a m\le and a half of the dairv fact or v I understand tl-at „ 1P Urenui ' Crid[et uuu is losing the services of T. O'Neill who has shown such consistent form this season 'is ip is shortly getting married, ami Is tm. tering into business down the coast. Apart T(Um'' S win 'l'' ' IS " °°°" "ick-ter. T«ll» will he ereatly mlss ed in th; tenrn, I,'®. ° m ' ![ " ns,,|fls,i and considerate . ' a,ld » <>f strength to any tnZbJ'; n,!s , - a50 "' h j" tindciibled,) bo oae of tie first seit-tion ■ In a representative eleven.

(in l.Md"y CTea'nc law, at the inrH.uiaa of ; '" s /Son ' u '' lo ii'i'i been one of tli,> ■eamng members of the rrem „ Crl( . k< ,, fJ for ove,. tw e, lt y Je . lrs)i ;[ n ON*'s fellow rrld; , [OVS am , ■ l>l,l him farewell on she ocea.sio i of ],k aistriw'"n i,IUI ' ie "' ll ' , " ro from tho ,7 u Dl "' ln e f'u evening. Mr. It. H J>:» o xom r n ' f , 01 ! be <«">• , , I,h a I'nndsorae travelling In;; ■n doing so referred in eulogistic te.n.s io t". ne» to „s, lst ,n any social (nmloil^e m H SS " reCl - Ml '- °' Xel! if «t Jn> time he felt that ], e com! spare Hip v'e"l ! (rae Play | f "' "' e l o wmi,f| '"est v.euine, anil personally lie wonM |, 0 Wrtc, to do anything within hj, \ * .eofre Mr ' «r r |, ;l . On JelJf rf t iZ S TJ l ° fu aMU « "™ ".at • 4 'ii d oarr> with him the grj;l wishes u" «»■ «'d trusted he would erijoV a and l-appy nmrrieil llfe> an(] t(iM 5 lrert ' eivmg him would r ,n ns a small memento of tho happy times he |.« d Z amongst them. , I*™ Mr A. H. Ilalooinbn warmly endorsed the remarks made by Mr. P|g„ t , addi,/ tl OAe'U "h ?' ears ,' le ■ sp:!,lt In Uremii Mr JNe.ll I ail made. so po|)uh King to" t ,' 1P W01 "" bi miss|,tl ' retorilnt to his approach!,u marrmgo Mr Hiilcombe trusted that Mr. WOU |' ( i peilence every happiness ami prosperity md beTlt a/'hi/?' gPnUi,le rCSret wo«:rt \rr a v ii i departure from amongst then, ton 0 '««»£- t on, said the) had put J.im u„ against -i sim Proposition, and he f e ;t he cculd no- ' ,i e nnately express his appreciation of 'all' a j ! bee » "'<!• He thought they were makl"! 00 much of what little assistance he d een to the dub, „ nd wol „ (1 like « In all bis experience he had not met with a vZ lo ' of I playera ll,anth ° se oftbe uUU ni f ew . d 40 '"" nk ,hem w<ut "»•«■ ■ toi the handsome present they had given m. paying that It would remind him Tf he h..ppj Joars spcl]t Jn Ur(?nul lf time any of them should be It, the vicinity l'i'V" eW lm '" e ' he to all a he lr tv Invitation to call and see hln, All hen joined in singing "For He's a Jolly Good Felnunlc 'm. "afrer" rS W6r<! - SPent Ca " l? iUld afler expressing to Mr. and Mrs 0,1 '." elr ai'preriatlon of the ho IP itibl» iianner which they had been entem'f^ of "Aula Lang Syne" bv to re a L ' n close 0, ' K " t * "'° St " leas " ro We evening On Thursday evening last a successful elnbs. MSbi T ,, n . ul sllpi)lil , a ' t ; k e e te-Mto sna good stJ , e , an,, lluring tl ,e Zning , " „ n " 0l ""' ed t1,1,t o" Monday eve„w T a'v'-M 3 ° Cial " ould 130 tendered to Jlr dUtrlrt "" m ' aSi °" Bf his le ""W thl ir-g CS^rel " l r,rT """V °" Frld '' 5, e V-»-r H , te ai "« ° ~r fnl article'of chiefly' of tISO . : of "earing apparel, was ■rstrs. sm-.rs-u S "t the Ten Cominandments.