Page 18 - 1978 News Clippings

New stories for centre

These Horotiu Playcentre children were to read their own stories.
treated to some very original stories read by The stories ranged from fact to fantasy
some new faces this week. and the pupils read to two sessions of the
As part of Playcentre Week a group of centre.
Ngaruawahia third-formers visited the centre

Ngaruawahia Cox Receives Bronze Medal

Little did Alan Cotter of Ngaruawa- It was a little disappointing no doubt,
hia think, when he was peddling his way to both Maori and Pakeha folk that so lit-
around the streets of Ngaruawahia deliv- tle was seen on T.V. coverage of the war
ering papers, that he would one day be canoes and their paddlers. A tremendous
standing on a dias receiving a medal as amount of work went into their training
cox of the N.Z. Rowing Eight. and the getting of these canoes to Kara-

This was Alan’s first international piro.
race and quite an ordeal, but he coped However, the Ngaruawahia people of-
mightily. fer their congratulations to Alan and the
Maori people for a job well done.