PRIZE DISTRIBUTION AT RICHMOND SCHOOL.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7142, 1 September 1888, Page 6

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION AT RICHMOND SCHOOL.

4» The distribution of prizes to the children attending the Richmond district school took place last night, at the local I Foresters' Hall. Mr E. L. Wallace, Chairman of the School Committee, preside!. The hall was packed with the children and their parents and friends. About a fort- ! night ago the school was examined for the f first time for prizes by Mr Baldwin, Head i Master at Sydenham, and the prizes given were subscribed for by the members of the Committee and others. After a few remarks by Mr Wallace and Mr Swan, these two gentlemen divided the work of ds"- is--bution. A silver Maltese cross, presented by Messrs Barnes and C. H. Howard, and inscribed by Mr A. W. Jones, was awarded to Emily Osborne, dux of the school. A special prize for geograpii., given. »yMr 1 eTw. Hall, was gained by Elizabeth | Bampton. The other prize winners were as under :-Standard VJ., Elizabeth Ro»ewarne 1, Jessie Maddison 2, -label Craddock 3. Standard V.-Bdith hang 11, Emily Flesher and Ellen Mues -, j Arthur Craddock 3. Standard i Dunn and Frank Wallace 1 Ldy Pearce, Albert Philpott and Sam Ledsham 2, Jane McFadden and Leonard McClure 3. Standard 111-Mary Tullockand Chas. Osborne 1, Eva Howard and William Wallace 4 Lizzie Kerr and William McClure 3. j Standard ll—Alice Russell and James J lullockl, Mary Newton and Thos. Davent port 2, Winnie Andrews and John Hutton i 3. Standard I—Helen Horseley and Louis ' Brown 1, Flossie Ritchie and Harry Sturj mer 2, Edith Laurence, Annie Osborne, : Trephena Taylor, Harry Harbott, and Jno. j Plows 3. Infant Department, Class I— I Alice .Tefford, Ethel Grand, Bertie Brown, | and Harry Green 1, Eliz. Heese, Ethel Hadtield, James Flesher, and Fred. McClure 2. In the course of the evening there was some class singing by the children, and several of the pupils also gave recitations.