CARTERTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1941, Page 7

CARTERTON

SCHOOL ASSOCIATION MONTHLY MEETING. ("Times-Age” Special.) The monthly meeting of the Carterton Home and School Association was held yesterday, there being present: Mesdames Hurndell (president), H. Goodin, G. Steffert, F. L. Barr, Messrs W. Manin, and H. J. McKenzie. Apologies for absence were received from. Mesdames Naylor and Hodder. In view of the poor attendance at the “500” card parties, it was decided to discontinue them for the next two months. It was left to Mr' McKenzie to interview the Wellington Education Board with regard to the laying down of a basketball court at the school. If satisfactory arrangements can be made, the Home and School Association will donate £3O to this object. vote of thanks was passed to Mrs H. Goodin, who has donated a ham, the proceeds from which are to be credited to the Association’s funds. ENGAGEMENT WILSON—HOWIE. The engagement is announced of Betty Zair, younger daughter of Mi’ and Mrs C. W. Howie, Ahiaruhe, to Thomas Wilson, only son of Mrs and the late Mr J. R. Hume, Ahikouka, Greytown. Dance at Belvedere. A dance will be held in the Belvedere Schoolroom on Friday evening. Rugby Football. Keen interest is being taken in the return senior game between Carterton and Featherston • to be played on the Featherston ground on Saturday. In the game played at Carterton in the first round, Carterton won by 11 points to 8. Carterton, it is expected, will be without the services of J. Brown. Wairarapa Poultry Show. The annual Show of the Wairarapa Poultry, Pigeon and Cage Bird Association will be held in the King’s Theatre on Thursday and Friday next. The doors will be opened to the public at 10 a.m. each day and close each evening at 10 o’clock. Birds will be shown from New Plymouth, Hawera, Wanganui, Stratford, Taihape, Palmerston North, Hastings, Lower Hutt and from various parts of the Wairarapa. Two hundred and fifty-six entries have been received for poultry and there are 42 bantams, 35 cage birds and a large entry of pigeons. There ->i A should be keen competition in the Old 'English Game, White Leghorns, Rhode Island Red and Orpingtons. It is hoped there will be a large attendance of the public to show their appreciation of the' association’s efforts to keep the show going during the period of the war. R.S.A. Ball. The initial work in connection with the presentation of the debutantes and their escorts at Monday’s R.S.A. ball was carried out by Mrs Pinfold, who was complimented on the splendid manner in which the whole scene was arranged and every detail carried out. Personal Items. Miss Moncrieff, National Secretary of the Y.W.C.A. in China, and who is staying with her mother, Mrs J. Moncrieff, Victoria Street, Carterton, will shortly return to China. Mr Pankhurst, postmaster at Carterton, left today for Greymouth, where he will spend his annual holiday.