PIRINOA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 9

PIRINOA

SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETING.

("Times-Age" Special.) The final meeting of the year of the local School Committee was held on Tuesday evening, there being present: Messrs S. Mclntosh (chairman), Sutton (secretary), Carter, Duggan and Riwai. Accounts totalling £6 4s 8d were passed for payment. „ ... It whs decided to give the children an afternoon party on breaking up day. The secretary reported that the electric heater and basin had been installed. Severe Storm. A storm of unusual severity passed over the district on Sunday and Monday morning. Heavy fain, driven by a raging southerly fell almost continuously until late on Monday afternoon, when conditions improved. Small streams overflowed their banks. Gardens suffered considerably, fruit trees, especially being stripped clean. The weather has now improved considerably. Personal. Mrs-W. Hume, who, with her sister, Mrs Waddell, Bluff, has been on an extended tour of England and the Continent, is expected home on January 9. Mr James Duggan Junr., who- has been visiting friends at Nelson, has returned home. Mrs J. Grenfell Jones has left on a motor tour of the North Island in company with her daughter, Mrs Drew.

Mrs McClelland, Te Kopi, has returned from a visit to relatives in the South Island.

Mrs Chas. Evans, Putaruru, has been visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs S. Hall, Kumenga. Mrs Riwai, Kohunui, is an inmate of a private hospital in Featherston. Mesdames Hunter and Piripi, who were at Tologa Bay for the funeral of their brother, have returned home. Gun Club Meeting. The weather conditions were most unfavourable when the members of the South Wairarapa Gun Club held a shoot for the Brough Cup. The winner was B. Brough, who secured 16 birds out of 18 off 18 yards. The results are as follow: —B. Brough, 12 16; F. Taplin, 18. 15; D. Fenwick, 12, 14; A. Warren, 12, 14; H. Swainson, 12, 14; N. Prussing, 10, 15; C. O'Connell, 9 11; F. Brough, 9, 11. A sweepstake of 12 birds was won by F. Taplin, with D. Fenwick second. The final shoot for the year will be held on December 17. First Fat Lambs of Season. The first draft of fat lambs from this district was conveyed to Featherston last week for railage to the works at Wellington.