PRESENTIONS 10 MISS GARRETT.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5489, 30 March 1910, Page 2

PRESENTIONS 10 MISS G A RRETT.

A few jdojy.s prior to Miss Garrett's doparture from Taurangu the members of the .District iltfgih Schco!. CJirls' Hotkey Tciam eiiterta'iineid her with a farewell p-imic at Mount Muungtinui, when a pleasant and en-, jdynble <outing resulted, ttea prominent loaturc being a. hockey - match betweon teams captained by Misses •Garnett and.Taydor. Dilrinpr the day (Miss Taylor, tCjachcr of the secendary .depiartment of the High Hchiofol. presented : Miss Gaa-rett with a silver-btacktAi miiror (suitably engraved) as a token of esteem from

h?' toachers and the girls' hockey team. Miss Oarrett suitably replied.

At the close of choir practice at Trinity .Church on Wednesday evening. Mr l'hil'potts (ch'j'irmastor) presented Miss Garrctt with' a parting memento from the choir, in the shape kaf la .'handscnie l.qat'her-'bou-nd volume of hymns, ancient ami modern, and ia doing so referred to the regular attendance of th.3 recipi-->ut «.{. practices and cKurch services. Although regretting h.»r departure from the district he said they must not be -selfis/h, as the transferto llo"tonia was for Miss Garrett's betterment. Miss Garrett, in accepting i the piWisentij ropMs*!' faeJ'i'n'gtly, and safrf she h.o'pwV to take up church work again, and their ihandsjame present 'remind/ 'hor of" nor associations with the church t-n Tauranga. Prior to the' disniiss'el of fichqol on Thursday "afternoon nil the pupils whjo had passed through' the inlatat room during Miss Garretl's assooH ation with tho Tauranga school, and also the present 'pupils of the in fa til "department, assembled in the infcuit room to bid farewell to Miss Garrett. Mr Bowiden (headmaster) gnvo a sbort address appropriate to the occasion, ami referred to the strenuous duties which' had. to Ijfc Carried out jirf the school during the past year owing to it being undarata«ed. He thought that sometimes teachers seemed to see no reward for their work, hut he felt that Miss G-arrett ihtad received reward \n her work ie the infant depnvrtuervt. Haster G. Deuhistuh, the sm-allcst si'hrolar, then handed to Miss Garrett a.* silver- backed brush) and comb oud pi D tray. Miss Garrett suitably 'responded and said the present v-oiild always serve ito remind her of her happy association with the pupils of the school.

Miss yGarretV left for Poi^gakaVa on Saturday and proceeds to Rotorua in time to take up her new duties in" that school after the.Easter vacation.