WINTER SHOW.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20104, 6 December 1930, Page 25

WINTER SHOW.

ESSAY PRIZES presented. industrial films shown. distribution of certificates to > oo e uldren who were successful in io essay competition held in coniii.uon itii th o Winter Show, was 't i at tlie Civic Theatre yesterdav ■Z Vn T]- The thcatro was packed W ' ® c^rt ' n > find the prize-winners, some GO in all, wero received with tremendous applause. Mr W. Maxwell, tmn 1 ' the Headmasters' Association, s|xjl;o briefly of the value of the essay work. u*?if ~^ r °hbold, chairman of the er Show Committee, who prek'i the prize-winners n behalf of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and of the ManufacJiois Association. The object of the snow, he said, was mainly to demons rate the quality and enormous tariety ol goods produced in Now Zea- ' , 11 a , f ew years the children present would be looking lor a niche in one of the occupations". That made fof. the country's prosperity. He asked them to play the game and when wnt out to make a purchase to make •sure (hat they wero given New Zealand goods, and secure the permanence or those industries. \f ' U , ii y«' arll > ' n the absence of (y r * J - '>• C. Mncfarlnno, president of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, said that education did not end with schooling, but went on right through life, and they would niways find that there was something to bo learnod. An intelligent interest in the shows and their competitions wiis a part of education. Some men were always endeavouring to decry find belittle this country, but tlicv were doing real harm. He asked the child ren to remember as they grew up tbnt thov must take civic responsibilities, and maintain a keen interest in the affairs of their City and tho country as a whole. Mr I. Woolf, president of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association, said that New Zealand offered to its people wonderful opportunities. He asked the children to be loyal to its products just llmv would hf> to their own school and their schoolmates. Tile prizes, in accordance with tho list already published, were then presented by Mrs I. Woolf. Following this, a series of films on industrial subjects, supplied by tho Department of Industries and Commerce, were screened. Tho pictures shown included an excellent wi-nic of Christehurch. another of the Tonjjnriro National Park, and views of tho flax industry.