Bunnythorpe.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1595, 30 December 1885, Page 2

Bunnythorpe.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. December 28th, 1885. The annual school treat took place today. The householders and children numbering about 90 assembled at It o'clock. While tea, and all imaginable good things were being enjoyed by the children, the Committe men where preparing the prizes to be distributed. About 2 o'clock the children were all marched into the schoolroom. After a most suitable address by Mr Dixon, the Chairman distributed about 45 prizes to the children. Before the assembly again resumed their sports, Miss Nelly Dixon, in the name of all the pupils, suitably presented Mrs Boddy the teacher, (who is leaving Bunnythorpe to teach in Feilding), with a silver-plated teapot and butter dish, as a token of the esteem in which she was held by them all. The following testimonial was given to Mrs Boddy to add to a number she has received from various schools where she has worked before, by the Chairman. We the undersigned school committee men have much pleasure in expressing our entire satisfaction with the way in which Mrs Boddy has conducted the school during the time she has been in charge. She leaves us much to our regret, and carries with her our esteem, and good wishes for the future. Signed : - J. H. Aldrich, Chairman Committee Peter Scheidt Joe Dixon John Coleman Shere Edwin Clevely Julius Anderson.

A number of small prizes were run for by both the boys and girls, and all kinds of out-door games indulged in, until the imperative call of cows ho I brought a very pleasant gathering to a close. Just before breaking up the male settlers gathered together in the schoolroom to again discuss that vexing question of the road from Bunnythorpe to the Rangitikei Line. It appears that the Manawatu Road Board won't do any more for us. We have to thank them for some 27 chans of metal just completed by Mr Basset, but that is not all we want by a long way, nor is it half what we are entitled to, the settlers are determined, if possible, that the road shall be made passable if they have, to borrow the money and do it themselves. Some mouths ago a deputation waited on the Board and received all kinds of promises, but baring the paultry bit of metalling above referred to nothing has been done, or likely to be done, unless the settlers take it up themselves. It was resolved that a deputation wait upon the Manawatu Board at their next meeting to ascertain what can be done in the matter.