GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1940, Page 4

GENERAL

Ohura District High School. Work on the erection of the new district high school at Ohura had made excellent progress and it was expected that the carpenters would finish within the next fortnight, it was reported by the architect, Mr. C. H. Moore, at a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday. Inglewood Band Euchre. The final of the fifth series of euchre parties run by the committee of the Inglewood Municipal Band was held on Saturday. Six tables were engaged. the winners being Mrs. A. H. Codd 1, Mrs. J. Scott 2; Mr. W. Spurdle 1, Mr. A. Biesick 2. "Mountaineering Not Dangerous." "I beg to differ. Mountaineering is not unsafe for experienced mountaineers who take every possible precaution," said Mr. F. Addis, secretary of the Stratford Mountain Club, when it was suggosted at a meeting of the east committee of the Egmont National Park Board at Stratford that alpine sport was dangerous. Mr. Addis' remark followed an eariier comment made by him, that the relatives of mountaineers were worried about their activities because of the dangerous nature of the Manganui gorge. Two speakers considered that mountaineering was a dangerous sport and one liable to create worry. Successf ul Efocutionist. For the third year in succession Howard Sinclair, a 14-years-old Stratford boy, has won the Trinity College of Music, London, silver medal for the highest marks in the-. Stratford centre for the college's annual elocution examination.' This year Howard Sinclair, who is a pupil of the Stratford Convent, passed his senior examination in elocution with honours and with marks high enough to merit the medal. On the two previous Dccasions the bo.y has passed the examnation with honours.