THE STUDY OF FRENCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 8

THE STUDY OF FRENCH.

P' AWARDS TO STUDENTS, r. ■ ■ ■ —r— Mr. Paul Serre, Consul for France at Auckland, has just distributed 42 French books forwarded by the Foreign Office. These were sent as gifts to the best French scholars in the principal high schools of this city. The books are realisable prizes apart from educatienal value, owing to the artistic engravings and beautiful impressions in the volumes.

Some months ago the Council after consultation awarded 25 prize booke forwarded by the Alliance Trancaise, Paris, .for students who obtained the highest marks in French at the University entrance examinations in Xcw Zealand. It is intended each year to make similar awards to encourajre the study of French in the Dominion".

The following are the successful candidates in -order of merit who received the awards just donated:—

Auckland Girls' Grammar School.— Gwendolyn Brierly, Lucy Cowie, Helen Connor.

Convent of the Sacred Heart, Remuera, —Tamar Brown, Doreen McCJarry, Winifred Wall. Noel Stone."

Diocesan High School. —Margaret Kussell, Enid Hammond, Una l'latts, Marjorie Stewart.

Epsom Girls' GramAer School. —Margaret Konburgh Alartin, Ailsn. Macphereon Lee.

Ladies' College, Remuera.—Marjorie Hoare, Gladys Dolbel, Vita Hertslet, Elaine Clark.

St. Cuthberi'g.—Helen Asser. Irene Deare, Molly Luke, Valma Roulston.

St. Mary's High School, Ponsonby.— Winifred Cooke, Mary Gillies, Hilda Chesnut, Joyce Parker.

Auckland Boys' Grammar School.— JTorman W. Bowden, Charles A. Sharp, Kenneth M. Leonard, Reginald H. Forder, Douglas L. Robinson.

King's College.—Keith Wilmot, Arthur D. Trendall, Gerald C. C. Rowe.

King's School.—Jock Milne, Edmund Peter Allen. Ivor Courtenay Hobday.

Mount Albert Grammar School. —Kric Thomas Marshall, Eric Dunstan Brownlee.

Sacred Heart College.—Paul Kennedy, Ernest Baile3', Patrick Delehanty, Paul Fogarty.