SOCIETY OF ARTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 12, 15 January 1892, Page 4

SOCIETY OF ARTS.

SCHOOL DRAWING COMPETITION,

Mr J. L. Holland, Secretary of the Auckland Society of Arts, has forwarded to tone Board of Education the following report made by Mr E. W. Paybon on the recent examination of pupils in the Auckland district schools in first grade freehand drawing and first grade model drawing for prizes and certificates offered by the Art Society :— " One thousand and fifty - nine freehand and 307 model drawings wore submitted by eighty schools. I have awarded the first grade cerbificabe to 199 competitors, and the first grade model drawing certificate to 29. The freehand drawings, on the whole, are scarcely up to the average of last year, while model drawing does not appear to have received the attention it deserves. Most of the drawings sent up .in this class give me the impression that the students generally have been allowed to start model drawing without receiving any special instruction in this branch, whereas a few simple methods, demonstrated when model drawing is concerned, would lighten the difficulties in a marked manner. In freehand drawing, the system of working has decidedly improved, but the objectionable plan of completing one half of a drawing before the obher half is commenced, still lingers in a few schools. In one large school, more than half the papers sent up had the left hand side of the drawing elaborately finished, while the other half had not been commenced. " Infreehanddrawing, I have awarded the prize to Herbert Watson, Ponsonby School, and have marked the papers of the following compebibors'good.' These are all very equal: Sydney Jones, Napier-sbreeb; F. C. Ewen, Napier-streeb; L. Nicholas, Berestord-street; T. Poland, Tuakau ; A. Walker, Tuakau; Wl T. Butters, Ponsonby ; B. Hooper, Cambridge West; H. King, Beresford-street ; G. H. Strange, Remuera ; L. B. Maxwell, Wellesley-street; A. Gibbons, Paeroa ; T. Keary, Driving Creek ; L. M. Hansen, Whangamaririo ; B. P. Gittos, Ponsonby; J. W. St. Clair, Beres-ford-sbreeb; A. M. Heap, Ponsonby; C. W. Worrall, Onehunga; Jame3 Hueston, Henderson.

"In model drawing George E. Woolley, Kamo, takes the prize, while the drawings of Jane Huesbon, Henderson; William Bycroft, Onehunga; Charles E. Hodge, Mercer; and R. V. Scott, Napier-street, are considerably above the average."