PRIZE-GIVING CEREMONY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27213, 3 December 1953, Page 9

PRIZE-GIVING CEREMONY

TECHNICAL COLLEGE EVENING CLASSES

Evening classes which had served requirements well had been continued this year with no outstanding innovations, said the principal (Mr D. W. Lyall) at the prize-giving ceremony for evening an . part-time classes at the Christchurch Technical College last evening. Individual students in evening classes numbered 1995, and iri their many subjects they made 3750 enrolments. Part-time classes for apprentices in the day time had 741 enrolments without any appreciable diminution of evening attendances which showed that this development was functioning, as intended, to give extra time for trade training. Mr Lyall said that part-time students undertook a heavy responsibility in addition to employment, and they had acquitted themselves well. He remarked on successes in all kinds of examinations, including those of the New Zealand Trades Certification Board which was “becoming a major industry.” The following prizes were presented;— Building and Woodworking Messrs J. Calder’s prizes in building construction: stage 1, William Mummery and Keith Bell; stage 2, Donald Shirley; stage 3, Johen Abrams and Allan Thomson. New Zealand Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union’s prize in carpentry practice: stage 1, Ross Binning: stage 2, Donald Brown, stage 3, Norman Marsh. Messrs Ashby, Bergh’s prize for best apprentice in day-light-training classes (first year), Maurice Bourne. Messrs Mason, Struthers' prize fur best apprentice in daylight training classes (second year), Robert Chambers. Messrs John Burns, Ltd., prize for most improved first year apprentice in cabinetmaking: lan Wedley. Scott Timber and Hardware Company, Ltd., prize for veneered work: Robert McKenzie 1, Graham Milesi 2, Keith Reinke 3. Messrs John Burns, Ltd., prize for cabinetmaking (evening class); senior, Brian Jones; junior, Graham Pizzey. Messrs A. J. White’s prize for cabinetmaking, drawing: James Nunan. Canterbury Builders’ and Contractors’ Association special prizes ror stage 1 technical drawing and theory: Russell Cockroft, Donald Lavender, Barry Rowe. New Zealand Quantity Surveyors’ Institute (southern branch) prize for most progressive first-year student: C. R. McCallister. Messrs John Burns’s prize for motor-body building; F. Allen. Plumbing Section New Zealand Lead Work’s prizes for best first-year apprentice: Brian Walts. Best second-year apprentice: Bruce Boyd. Best third-year apprentice: John Stephenson. Canterbury Master Plumbers’ prize for best apprentice (senior): Rex Cooke. Plumbers and Gasfitters’ Union, prize for best apprentice in practical work: Arthur Peters. Plumbers’ and Gasfitters’ Union prize for most improved apprentice: Ronald Sharplin. Messrs A. and T. Burt’s prize for plumbing (evening classes): Patrick Ryan 1, Athol Johnson 2, David Clyne 3. Cup presented by Dominion Lead Mills for apprentice with the best record throughout the training period of five years: Warwick Woods. Commercial Mr M. E. Lyons’s prize for Pitmans shorthand (speed): Fay Davis. Anonymous—prize for typewriting (elementary); L. V. Schumacher. New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association prize for typewriting (intermediate): Jill Over Lon Messrs Beath and Company’s prize for advanced typewriting: Diana Brookes. Chartered Institute of Secretaries' prize for commercial and secretarial practice (stage 1): D. R. Glanville. Messrs Simpson and Williams’s accountancy prizes for accounting: stage 2, W. J. Batstone; stage 3, F. J. Cran and W. H. Carter. Business Management Course Messrs Bullivant and Company’s prize for commercial administration: W. M Barrett. New Zealand Farmers’ Co-oper-ative Association prize for economics (first year): N. W. Pearce. Industrial Management Course Messrs Bullivant and Company’s prize for departmental supervision: W. L. Russell. Messrs Weeks, Ltd., prize for functional management: M. Newman. Engineering Messrs Avery Scales, N.Z., Ltd., prize for A.M.I.E.E. (fourth year): Winslow R. Prattley. Messrs Vale and Company’s prize lor marine engineering: Donald B. Reid. N.Z. Industrial Gases, Ltd., for general engineering: stage 3, Raymond H. Gibbs. Messrs Booth. Macdonald, Ltd., prize for fitting and turning, stage 3: Joseph H. Alexander. Messrs P. F. Mann, Ltd., Prize for fitting and turning, stage 2: John A. Stenhouse. New Zealand Engineers’ Union (Canterbury branch), for fitting and turning, stage 2: MerVyn A. Qu.irtley. National Electrical Company, Ltd., lor electrical engineering, stage 3: Peter V. Haughey. Messrs T. Jones. Ltd., prize for electrical engineering, stage 2: John G. Williams. Messrs T. Jones, Ltd., prize for electrical enginering, stage 1: Malcolm C. Gibbs. Messrs Toomeys Grinding and Gear Company, prize for motor engineering, stage 3: Alan G. Tong. New Zealand Engineers’ Union (Canterbury branch) prize for motor engineering, stage 2: Stanley C. Dailey. Anonymous pri/.e for motor • engineering, stage 1: Oetse F. Kempkers. New Zealand Engineers' Union (Canterbury branch) prize lor sheetmetal work: Colin N. Knowles. Messrs Tolley and Sons, Ltd., prize for principles of electricity. Errol C. Searle. Messrs Peter Kennedy. Ltd., prize for welding technology: Arthur R. Berry Messrs W. H. Price and Sons. Ltd., prize progress in machine shop: William N. Hunt. Anonymous prize for aircraft engineering (physics and mathematics) : Christopher Johnstone. General Mr J. L. Hay’s prize for first in univerf’ty entrance: Alison Milne. Messrs Whitcombe and Tomb’s prize for secondLionel West. Messrs Whitcombe and ■tombs prize for third: Kenneth McKay. New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Association Prize for first in school certificate: John Maclaehlan. New Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative Association prize for secondMervyn V. Lawrie. Messrs Bullivant and Company s prize for intermediate English, arithmetic, and commercial: John A. Stewart. Messrs Beath and Company’s prize for general: Elizabeth Dunnage. Messrs Bullivant’s prize for elementary arithmetic and English: Thomas Donovan. Messrs Wilton and Company’s prize for pharmacy (first year): David Todd. Messrs Kempthorne Prosser and Company’s prize for pharmacy (second year): Michael Kirby. Mr M. E. Lyons’s prize for woolclassing: Michael McCormack. Home Science Messrs Lane, Walker, Rudkin’s prize for most improved student in dressmaking and dresscutting: Alison Brebner. Miss Moores prize for outstanding work in dressmaking: Mrs B. Williams. Anonymous prize for general improvement in dressmaking: Rita Mitchell. Anonymous prize for most improved student in millinery. Mrs W. Smith. Anonymous prize lor general excellence in millinery: Glory rerguson. Messrs Singer and Company’s prize for general excellence in homecraft teachers course: Shirley Buick. kt ~ , Typography New Zealand Printing and Related Trades Union prizes for typography: Bruce Galbraith 11 Eric Thompson 2, Brian