KAPONGA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1922, Page 2

KAPONGA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The monthly meeting of the Kaponga school committee was held on Monday evening, all the members being present. A letter was read from the Taranaki School Committees’ Association, asking for the co-operation of the local committee. It -was decided to support the association, and the chairman was appointed a delegate to the annual conference to be held at Inglewood on the 15th inst. The headmaster’s report was received. It stated that the average attendance for the past month was 102, and the present roll number 112. The mid-year examination had just concluded. "The infant department, under new methods, showed marked improvement. Inspector Griffin paid his visit of inspection on the 25th ult. The school hockey team played a friendly match with the Ladies’ Star Club on Thursday last, and secured a victory by a narrow margin, after a splendid game. Messrs. Guy and Harding were appointed a sub-commit-tee to go into the question of parallel bars, horizontal ladder and to report at the July meeting. Owing to bad weather, the sports events, which were to have been decided last month, had to be postponed. The headmaster was asked to arrange for the contests on a suitable way. Congratulations to the local girls for the good fight they made at the King’s Birthday tourney in Hawera! The club is only a few weeks old, and the members have had only one practice match. That the team finished in the third position under the circumstances’ speaks well for the individual players, and farther successes should follow. In Misses Swaddling, Law and Johns the club have players who understand “putting in the wood,” while Mr. Kendon, a.s coach, will no doubt sharpen up the finer points of the game. A benefit football match in aid of an injured senior player was to have been played here on Satui’day, between Kaponga and Eltham. The local team turned out in force in spite of unfavorable weather, but the expected visitors did not arrive. The feeling was generally expressed that the Eltham Club might have found some means of communicating their inability to bring out u team.