LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Modified Curriculum. Primary schools in the Wellington district are now working under the modified curriculum inaugurated last year for the hot month of February. A special effort is to be made to teach non-swimmers to swim. . Moa Bones Found. Five moa skeletons, some almost complete and excellently preserved, have been dug up during the last few days from an area of swampy ground at Waikari and taken to the Canterbury Museum. Another skeleton has been located, but has not yet been unearthed, and there seems to be every possibility that the swamp, on further investigation, may prove to contain large numbers of specimens. Those that have already been dug up or located occupied only a small area of the whole swamp and lay almost adjacent to one another.

Keep Fit Week Procession. At a meeting of the committee of the Masterton Lawn Tennis Club last evening, it was decided to postpone the commencement of play on. the club’s courts on Saturday, February 18, the day of the Keep Fit Week Procession, until 2.30 p.m. All members who can do so are to be urged to take part in the procession in playing kit. The procession is timed to start from Wagg's parking area, Queen Street, at 1.30 p.m. and members of clubs will be free to return to their own playing areas at 2.30 p.m. Trust Lands Trust.

The monthly meeting of the Masterton Trust Lands Trust was held last night, the chairman, Mr H. P. Hugo, being in the chair. There were also present: Messrs J. Macfarlane Laing. A. Owen Jones, C. E. Grey, H. H. Daniell, R. Krahagen and E. .G. Eton. The treasurer reported credit balances as follow: No. 1 account, £750 2s lOd; No. 2 account, £155 18s 9d; No. 3 account, £59 16s 9d. . The Trustees decided to allow students applying for grantts a more liberal income, to meet the increased cost of board etc.