PRIZE DISTRIBUTIONS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17016, 13 December 1920, Page 5

PRIZE DISTRIBUTIONS.

MISS DIGBY'S COMMERCIAL SCHOOL. The annual prize giving in connexion •with Hiss Dipby'a Commercial School too.-: place Bt Wliare HaU on Saturday v.'hon there was a lar?e gathering of P^P 1 * 6 present. The Mayor of Ciriitcirurch, Dr. Tfc.'.cjsot, iI.P., riresided, and in the course o; an intioductory Epe«ch before the priao aistrilnition, said that now that the war -A-ar finislic-d the primary concorn of tiw country was and more education, both £eu<Tal and ulon? specialised lines. He confratiilat.ed Miss Digbv and her staff on the si:ccces of the year's work, mri emphasised the raJue of Buch an, institution as LVigby's school in turning out useful Tlie annual report stated that the echoo! yoar just end-?d showed an excellent r?cx?r<i cf work done, and results achieved by pupi-o. All the day ar.d evening classes were vol attended, and the successes 01 at the examinatinns for which t.ic-y had en-tered vaa extremely gritiiynig. s the result of tho Government Entrar.c« r.xamination for eh ort h i'.'.c -i;' p Ist t s held :3ot May, all the candidates who entered for - J '° special and junior \vere euccocGful, the school students the majority of passes -for the whole examination. Violet Karon secured first pluc? on Uie order of merit li'-t m the A>ccuil division, and Albertine Riedlo first place m t4io junior. One hundred and thirty-three shorthand epeed and theory certificates were granted to pupils during the veur by oir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., and fifty-nine candidates entered (tor examinations tor-whi-ch the results had not vot come to hand. There had been an exceedingly keen demand during the past year for students to fi.l positions aa ehorthand-typfetes and clerKß, and -although three hundred permanent and temporary anpointmcnta mnde since last Januarj-,"it was impoc-ible to keep pa«;o with the demand v/lrich The hign speed gold medal annually awarded l>y t the ChrjstcUurch Shorthand Writors' Association was pained this year l>y Miss Slildred E. Eyes, who was succe=sful in obtaining auman's speed certificate for 150 words jh 1 ? minute. The Girls' Hockey Club had a mo3t successful and enjoyable eeason. Thanks were expressed to Jlt Chas. Bean, who had a gold medal typewriting section, and to Messrai Whitcombc &nd Tombe and Mr S. A. Olark, who had also presented prize-a. The following was the prize-list : — Typewriting—Special prize for the best examination paper done on the Remington machine (gold medal, prcseivted by Mr Chas. Bean): EiWn Buchanan. Senior typawriting: Messrs Whitcombo and Tombs's prize: Ellen Madden; certificate of merit: Barbara Smith, iFabel Penlington. Junior typewriting': Muriel Waugh 1, Poppy Buist and Rene Bilton equal 2; certificate of •merit: Dorothy Mttnson. Shorthand-typ-istoa' tost (100 words per minute): Eileen Buchanan 1; certificate of merit: Isabel PenUngton. Sliortband-typofiiae' test (80 words per minute): Doreon fiiown 1; certificate of merit: Barbara Smith. _ Saturday morning typewriting clasis: " GladysGibbs. Shorthand sp?od pnrizos—Gold medal, presented by Christchuroh Shorthand Writers' Association, 250 w-oaxle per minute: Mildred E. Eyes; 120 ■ worda per minute: Eilwm Buchanan; 100 worda per m/mrto: Smith: * oertificato of merit: Doreen Bromi, Muriel Stephens', 90 words per minute: Violet Jack man; certificate of merit: Marjorio Gibbs; 70 ■wards per minute: Certificate of merit, May Irlam, Gwen Suckling, Jessie Hnrley. GTegw shorthand speed prizes—loo words per minute: Sybil Wood; SO I words per minuta: Norah Clark. Commercial tetters, taken iu shorthand and transcribed — 70 words per minute, certificate of morit: Day classes, Doria Green; evening classes, Coral Jar man; 80 worda per minute: Ina Campbell i; certificate of merit: Jean Barnett. Shorthand theory—July examination : Albertino Riedle; October examination : Eva Money. Senior book-keeping-Evening students 1 : Elathleen Blunt; day atudenits: Evelyn Huston; ccrtificiato 01 merit: Eleanor Thomson, Gladys Saunders. Junior book-keeping: Ida, Witliers .1, IJoris P«trie 2. Matriculation class (Mr Claras prize): Enid Riffhton. ' iPiitman's . fliwt-qlasa speed ,certificates — 160 words per minute: Violet Rcesiter; 150 words per minute: Mildred E. Eyes; 140 words per minute: Rita *80 worda pot minute: Catherine Rodgersnn. IXO words per minute: Ruth Bnshby, Eileen Buchanan, Isabel Penlington; 100 words per minute: Eileen Buchanan, Myrtle Drayton, Thelma Harper, Vera King, Muriel Lawrence, May Neatc, Annie Nelmes, Isabel Penlington, Thelma Puschel, Kaeeio Stenhousa; 90 words per minute: Mavis Attwood, Myrtle Drayton, Ermyn Pitewiy, Thelma Harper, Emma Lawrence, Mild'.-d iloore, Thelma, Pusohel, Albcrtine Riedie, i liassie Stonhouse, Barbara Smith, liiiida i Wilson, Irene Witty, Jean Ycmm, Alfred Irtind; 80 words per minute: Mavis attwood, ' Eileen Baecand, Doireen . Brown, Eileen Buclian-an, Eunice Bull, Myrtle Drayton, Bertha Slater, Kassio Stenho'U's,. Rita Simpson, Barbara. Smith, Muriel Stephena, Jean Ycmm; 70 worda per minute: Eileen Bascand, Nellie Baesett, Dorothy Bhmt, Muriel Dickson, Ermyn Fitsway, Marjorio Gibbs, Marjorio Oroenßlado, Hilda Gatehouse, Thelma, Harper, Evelyn Huston, Ade'a Innea, Violet Jackman, May Mather, Eva, Money, Mabel Piercy, Doria Petri©, Anni© Roper, May Trenbertli, Luoy Whittingtom, Ida Worthiington; 60~ words per minute: Mavis Attwood, Ada Beecroflt, Gw«n Carter, Evelyn Cain, Muriel Dickson, Mary Fuller, Marjorie Gibbs, May Neate, Dorothy Palmer, ICaeeie Stenhouso, Muriel Stephens, May Trenbertli,, Jean Yemm. Gregg epeed certificates—loo worda per ! mihute: Marian Graham; 80 words ■ per minute: Sybil Wood. , •- Pitman's theory crrtificatcs Buchanan, M. E. Barnett, Joyce Brocklehurst, Eunice .Bull, Ada Beecroft, 'jweoi Bellamy, Dorothy Blunt, Eileen. Baficsnd. Eileen Benjamin, Gwen Carter, Doj«»n Crapper, Myrtle Drayton, Mur.el Dickson, Iris Gidley, Marjorie Gibbs, Sadie Gregg, Marjory Grecnslade, Doris Green, Florence Harbison, Thelma, Harper, Jessie Hajrixjy, Mavis Bnlbert, Evelyn Hu iwo, Viol«t Jackman, Cora Jarman, Vena Kettle, Doris Musohamp, Elifisen Mloore, Eva Money, Ricltard McDowell, Dorothy Naiaouth, Dorothy N alder, May Ideate, Isabel Penlington, Mary Percy, Doris Peine, Eileen Petmeen JlsabcJ Round, Albertine Riedie, Starkie, Dorothy Shirriff3, Gwen Suckling, Mirrjol Stophoos, Barbaza Smith, Kita Simp•on, Dorothea Schmidt, Doreen Silvester, Kassio Stenhouse, Jfan Taylor, Adelene Turner, Nellie Thornton, Maroella Wolfreya, Marjary White, Ida Worthington, Joyce Weston, Jean Yemm. Preliminary to the prize giving a. conoert programme, contributed by school pupils, was presented. A pianoforte 6010 was given by Miss Vera Bowes, songs oy Master J. Townsend, Misa Mabel Edginton, and M'"** Tileen McDavitt; recitation . by Miea Mavis Baty, and Scotch dances by Misa Muriel Waugh.* Miss Vera Morgan woe the accompanist. ' Tha evening closed with supper and danoo.