DUKE’S AWARD PRESENTED

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31921, 24 February 1969, Page 12

DUKE’S AWARD PRESENTED

l Obtaining the Duke of ■ Edinburgh’s Gold Award . was not easy: it demand- ' ed hard work, perseverience, courage and indivi- [ duality, said the Gover-nor-General (Sir Arthur ■ Porritt) when he presented the award to 26 young persons horn throughout the South Island at “Mona Vale” on 1 Saturday morning. ' These very qualities, he said, were exactly what New • Zealand needed today from its 1 young people.

’ But the award carried re [ sponsibility, he said. On* . was to the youth group of . organisation which, through , . the use of its facilities, helped the winners to obtain the 1 , award, and the other was to the community in which oneI 1 ’[ lived. i[ Sir Arthur Porritt urged [ i j the recipients to do their best to help the organisations! l 'with their leadership abili-p i i ties, and to assist where they 1 could in those organisations! which served their communi- , ii ties. / [ He said that later this year s' he hoped to announce details j of a scheme to amalgamate

ill youth assets in an effort or some community project and he hoped they would 1 lend their weight to the scheme. After the presentation of the award certificates, Sir Arthur Porritt entertained those present for morning i tea. Work for the Duke of Edinj burgh Gold Award usually j takes a year and it must be. I attained before the recipient [is 19. Those who received the award were:— . Girls’ Brigade.—F, Bills (Dunedin), L. E. George (Dunedin), S. I. Wallace

(Dunedin), K. Willis (Dunedin). Girl Guides.—P J. Palmer! (Temuka). Waitaki Boys’ High School.. —D. J Anderson (Winton), M. L. Oxley (Blenheim), O. R. Waters (Miller's Flat), D. H. Paton (Oamaru). Christ’s College.—S. W.[ Cowles (Christchurch). Y. Flint (Christchurch), D. S. McLernon (Christchurch), M.S L. Steven (Christchurch), and S. C. G. Nicholls (Auckland). R.N.Z.A.F. Air Training Corps.—M. Cullen (Christchurch). Scout Association.—K. Cleave (Kurow), J. M. Connolly (Christchurch), D. Crombie (Mosgiel), C. S. Garland (Hakataramea), E. J. Geeves (Dunedin), G. B. Hes--1 lop (Dunedin), G. V. Jones (Blenheim). L. N. McGimpsey (Kurow), J. Seddon (Mos-) giel). E. J. Stevens (Hororata), R. J. Totty (Ashburton).

The photograph shows, from left, Messrs Nicholls, Geeves, Miss Bills, Sir Arthur Porritt, Miss Willis, Messrs Seddon, Crombie and Jones.