ANNUAL STAFF SHOW AT LINCOLN COLLEGE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 30007, 17 December 1962, Page 3

ANNUAL STAFF SHOW AT LINCOLN COLLEGE

Competing for the first time at the annual staff show at Lincoln College on Saturday afternoon Mr D. C. Bell, the horticultural foreman, and his wife won the cup for the family gaining most points in all sections of the show.

The runner-up was the Gibbs family, for which Mrs G. S. Gibbs, who is particularly skilled in floral decorative work, gained all the family points on her own. The college show, with a party for the children of members of the staff, is now an important social occasion in the college year when members of the staff and their families,® from the principal, Dr. M. M. Burns, and his wife downwards, compete against each other in growing vegetables, fruit and flowers, in making jams and cakes, and in handcraft. Dr. Burns won a first prize for six large strawberries, but perhaps more interest was shown in an entry of his in the jam section. It was a bottle of rich red looking jam made from fruit of a cactus plant growing outside the college refectory. Dr. Bums has been a very successful exhibitor of jams at earlier college shows. | Mrs Burns’s entries included a small table with a . top of ceramic tiles decorated with South Canterbury and North Otago Maori rock drawing motifs and a painting of the college's field station at Oaro, near Kaikoura. Mr G. G. Lindsay, lecturer in the agricultural engineering department, tied for the cup for most points in photography, and among other prize winners were Professor R. H. M. Langer, professor of plant science, who carried off a first for his beans, and Professor I. E. Coop, professor of animal science, who in former years has vied with the prin-

cipal in jam making, this year had a successful entry in the colour slides section. Awards The main awards were made as follows: cup for most points for cut flowers, Mrs F. Wilson: cup for most points for vegetables and fruit, D. D. Wilson; cup for most points in floral decorative classes, Mrs G. S. Gibbs: tray for most points for home produce, Mrs F. Wilson; cup for most points in children’s classes, Murray Hollard; cup for most points for handcraft, Mrs N. Bell; cup for most points for photography, J. B. Mitchell and G. G. Lindsay (equal); cup for family gaining most points, the Bell family; shield for family gaining second highest points, the Gibbs family. Book prizes for children gaining most points in three age groups were won as follows: five to eight years, Jane Thomson; nine to 12 years. Murray Hollard; 13 to 16 years, Kenneth Wilson. Entertainment for about 100 children was arranged by a committee under the chairmanship of Mr G. Meijer. They were first entertained by a conjurer, then played some games, and afterwards sat down to a feast in the refectory. The climax of the party was the arrival of Father Christmas in an old model car and the distribution of presents to every child from a Christmas tree.