RESULTS OF SEPTEMBER 29 COMPETITIONS

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1926, Page 20

RESULTS OF SEPTEMBER 29 COMPETITIONS

Xo. 1. —Two sisters tied for the first place in this competition and the prizes have been divided between them. The results are as follows:—First, Alma and Gladys G'hegtvidden, 25, West View Road (tied), with 114 correct words; second, Bessie Perrett. 29, Mt. Smart Road, Onehunga, age 13, with 111 correct words (very neat); and third, Eric Young, 15, Queen's Avenue, Dominion Road, Auckland, age 13, with 105 correct words. As in the last competition along similar lines, every child included in his or her list, many names of objects which were not in the picture, or else used words other than nouns, which was specially mentioned in the rules. Certificates as follows :— BLUE: Thomas Pressley. Wallace Lovell, Phyllis Langton, Hayden George, Reg Rogers, Rona Lovell, Ida Clca'. Hilda Kennedy, Meg. Simpson, Edith Billing, Garth Griffith, Lillie Brown, Marjorie Pettitt. PINK: Betty Webber, Gwen Webber, Henry Edwards, Gwen Gulley, Allison Masou, Stewart Harvey. Irene Wood, Bessie l.ynes, Jessie Gal'braith, Allen Cleaver, Len Hart. YELLOW: Mary Scotland, Mary Finan. Lois Farmibe. Olga- Sakey, Annette Croj", Mona Oddy, Sylvia Paris, Zelma Spry. GREEN: Cicilie Tattley. Jean Black, Joint Fieder, Mary Potts, Joe Sheffield, Ruth Bassett, Jean Anderson, Ruth Rogers, Jack Rountree, Richard Jones, Joyce' Grove, John McMillan. In awarding certificates due consideration was paid to neatness as well as to the number of correct words.

Xo. 2.—The three prizes of 2/6 are awarded to Thomas McLean. 23, Commercial Road, Grey Lynn, aged 15; Olga Johnson, Myres Road, Avondale South, age 15: and Marjorie Pettit, 225, Ponstonby Road, Auckland, age 11. Tlicir work appears below. Certificates as follows.—BLUE: Betty Webber. Hayden George, John McMillan, Patricia Donovan, Jack Hall, Lillie Hillyar, Rene Burle. PINK: Edna Watson, Kevin Berryman. Beatie O'Brien, Audrey Barton. Russell Cox, Nesaie Harrison, Margaret Halke, Gladys Young, Ruth Waldron. YELLOW: John Fielder. E. Leask. Vera Wakefield, Flora Macdonald, Meg Simpson. GREEN: Olive Rackham. Norman Raekham, Phyllis Ball. Ethel Dillon, Donald Adams, Alton Over. No. 3.—The winner are:—Section A (over 14 years): William Turner, Mount Royal Avenue, Mount Albert, age I.'). and Maurice Glass. 14, Dunedin Street, Ponsonby, age 15. Section 1$ (under 14 years): Olga Hill, 22, Cooper Street, Grey Lynn, age 13, and Robert Sutcliffe, 46, " Lincoln Street, Ponsonby, age 13. Certificates as follows.—BLUE: Frank Sneddon, Phyl Coleman, Alfred Blewden, Marjorie Sparrow, Eric Brister, Monty Tucker. PINK: George Barnett. * Winnie Bowling. Jack Allum. •Xaney Searle, Albert Rigden, Lillian iHedlund. YELJJOW: .Margaret Shaw, Evely* Krause, Phyllis Crowley, Nancy Scouller, Una Sheila Quinn, Cathie Dargie. Lillian Woodford. Bert Skeels. GREEN: Ellery KeTkin, Catherine Wells, Irene Wood, Victor , Pearse.