Page 10 - 1977 News Clippings
P. 10
Exchange “YE OLDE WAYSIDE
trip to INNE”
Japan
This week staff and at the tables in an
students of Ngaruawahia Edwardian restaurant,
High School are staging being served refresh-
their first Revue. The ments during the
school Hall has been performance. There is
busy for weeks with something for everyone
rehearsals, and prepar- here. Old fashioned
ation. While the Maori melodrama, orchestral
Cultural group is interludes, popular music
chanting and stamping on featuring the winners of
stage, you may find a the talent quest recently
long lost son pleading held at the school, the
with his drunken uncle Maori Cultural group
behind the curtain, half a displaying the art which
dozen boys with hammer won them second place in
and nails building some the secondary schools’
steps, a small pop group festival, and many more
rehearsing their number individual items.
in another corner, a group With a cast of 80
Christine Haultain, a 16-year of girls busy with paint students, there has been a
-old former Ngaruawahia College and brushes, a staff great deal of work
pupil, has left New Zealand for a member handing out involved, and particular
year in Japan after she won a colourful costumes, the thanks must go to Mr W.
Rotary Club student exchange chorus practicing their Braithwaite and Mr A.
award. show songs and or course Johnston.
A tow-week crash course at the orchestra (fortunately Tickets will still be
the Wellington Polytechnic armed rehearsing in the music available at the school for
her with the essentials of the room). the performances at 8 pm
Japanese language, culture and The show will use on Wednesday and
customs for what may prove to be the old music hall format Thursday, May 4 and 5.
an arduous but enjoyable year. with the audience seated
“It won’t be an easy year,”
she said before her departure,
bracing herself for the 9 am to 6
pm six-day Japanese school
week. And that includes Saturday
afternoon sport, in which she will
probably take up one of her
favourite activities - badminton.
She will spend her time,
“which will be regarded as a
seventh-form year,” at Okayama
School.
