AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1922, Page 7

AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL

MOTHER YEAR OF PROGRESS. (POCK'S IN 'TODY AND .SPORT. PDAYINO AREA WANTED. liere was ac: W attendance «i the To«n Hall laM ev.-nins f. witness the iijtributioTi of th- ~riM- to the pupils fffte Auckland Crammar School. ProV P. W. Thomas, .-haii-man oi tinGovernor*, presided, and the weTe presented hy the flavor (Mr. 1H Gonson'' ami Mrs. Cun-on. the !atL giving out the >ups =» ufl "' her tr "- leJwou in -port. Al«.i on the platLfjj! were the members oi trie Board ,f Governors, and the members nf th<\ tewhing staff of the school, j On rising to rea.l hu r-port. the head-: B uter (Mr. .1. W. nbn,... wi.n isreiirj from the post lie has hold >o iona.l «« loudly rhwre.l. The report set out tint the average enrolment during the wtr was 84a. .is against '.'TI last year. Btd the Mount Albert <>oli»>l not been jenmlefed in time for th- commencement e f ttis year's work it would have been MGMWrv '° refuse admission to nbout 150 toys. At the last examination for nnirereity entrance scholarships Uie Kfcool secured wen—three »F the ten junior university and four university ittional scholarship-. >even Scholarships out of forty was move than the "ichool's share, but still they must look it the result as marking one of their Itia year*, for ihe school's average for tie jist eleven year* was H>. Xinctyfour passed matriculation and 44 obtsiaed partial passe?, but there were, too mny failures, some of which might lie ueonnted for by boys in f'ueir third year taking a sporting chance uf squeezing through, or. a! any rate, securing a par-

tit! p«»- I Some of the senior boys sent in iirawinp to exhibitions held ret-entlv hi Auck-j lipd and Palmeraton Xortii; ail werej iwwded prize?, mostly first prize;, onl . wiich Mr. Doohertv must be vongratu-1 fated. Boys who wpr*> raking a post-} Bitriculttion course and thought 01 en-] tering the engineering or architectural I prtfeseion were encouraged to specialise I in machine and building construction | imring. In the case of those entering tie medical or teaching profession a course of drawing to illustrate the study of snitoniy and physiology had been te'mi, which would be of great value totlem in writing up their note? of lectures and in theiT professional examination!. A sketch club had been organised for tit lower school to encourage the aprfieition of school work in spare time. ,; ScWol gimes had been pursued during 'tti year with much enthusiasm by masters m well as' by boys, in spite of disdwatages. The Auckland Grammar ■'School wis probably tiie only one of fte grett schools of the Dominion that r»«».aot equipped with ample playing ! feji» within the property of the school. | J-If-tte school was to hold" it* own in atb-j fetirt «flioog the schools of the Dominion. Uv«U*t have proper playing fields •round it. The present expedient of etag pound at a distance from the «nool inrolved much waste of time to tow* ieen enough to go out. and resulted wtiie greater number of the boy» taking Mptrt whatever in cricket or'football. m musing the camaraderie as well as ..rat moral and physical training of school !-P*«?-,T Tf it were not for a good , long ~«*.«f fire courts, their case would be "ewperate. The school was in such sore M*d;of assistance for ground for its J*n*s, that he turned to old boys and PJtfflts for assistance. ■ Tat. school's eleven, said the he%d- ---.«•.«, wae not able this year to *end a ■■*g«»e* for the iWhcotc-Wniiams ■«**« Shield. Their cricket was sufferill * ■from the want, of good pitches •M'froni the deplorable state of the jwebe» in the Domain. But the school mtetn h.d brought back the Moasear 'ootball Cup from Clirietehuroh. This • tarn's victory attracted a great deal more «t*ntion than a brilliant success in a public examination, or an academic dis- , YOnV On euch as thaf recently won br F.

iTarlor. who had been elected to a Studentship at Christchurch. Oxford. iw , w *« the second occasion on which « M boy of the school had won a seat •J tte governinif body of a college in one j™ two ?re«t English universities. The « r « *is R. C. MaelauTin. who was a V Vl St Jolln ' S V 0 Cambridge. _-„, r " p*» in the couT»e of his report •*'MTtdl enlogretioally tothe work of Mr. "fti , - Manou, who joined the staff in 'W(.and wae his senior colleague, and&e WtWon record the debt that the school. nMttding the speaker, owed him. He had Wjittd the English work on a thor--S»»»" oasie: his own teaching, as wwa dv the higheet esa.niination. had ««n ennnentlj- eucceesful: his guidance ill- n O r n «d °e*n invaluIrttii °* within recent years the «aool had narrowly escaped losing i.is Zγ*!- , Mr . Tibbs hoped that for the «* tt * Choo] Mr ' Mahon woll!d <•'»"- ---™u« Hie work which be had done so