Queen’s Award Winner
A 16-year-old member of the seventeeth Christchurch Boys’ Brigade Company, Bruce Partridge, of Bryndwr, was last evening presented with the badge of the Queen’s award, the first won by a member of the company. The badge was presented during a ceremony at St David’s Methodist Church by
; Miss Julie Cunningham. The ’ certificate will be presented - by the Governor-General (Sir t Arthur Porritt) in Wellington ; in May. , Partridge was one of the f first to join the seventeenth Boys’ Brigade Company, which 1 was formed six years ago with t four boys. It now has 28 memf bers. He was promoted to cor-
s poral last year, and last even--1 ing he was promoted to serr geant i The award is the highest in the brigade. To gain it a boy 5 must have had at least three i years with a 90 per cent i attendance record, have gained i six proficiency badges and t- passed an N.C.O.’s proficiency ■- certificate examination.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31621, 6 March 1968, Page 18
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164Queen’s Award Winner Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31621, 6 March 1968, Page 18
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