SCHOOL ESSAYS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 529, 9 June 1909, Page 4

SCHOOL ESSAYS.

'; ■:■;. INDUSTRIES WEEK 'COMPETITION.' I:": THE RESULTS. Lv:TJie.'re3ults. ; irf;/th&:.BOhools essay competition, hold-under tie. auspices of'the. Wellington Pro-' vincial Industrial Association/ ill connection with Industries Week "uero ( announced at the monthly meeting of tho association JnSt evening. In the course of his report' on the .■gonoroU ; resnlts of .tho Industries Weekdis-' play,-: the"secretary. (Mr.- H. F. Allen) '■:' observed 1-7- ■'-;, .-:.-'■;■■:-..-' • ' ■

writing by school children is undoubtedly a very cheering feature in connection with New Zealand Industries Week. Tha essays bear witness that the pnpils';havo been well lectured in , school,' and that ,'they have peon very nttoiiiive. The writers have grasped the-fact that-it .is in'. the ihterestsr of all in ,N«w ZcMand manufactures should, be supported. ; The following 1 train, of •atgbmeDfc. of the-essays :-r ..•V-'i, .Zealand niado. goods should bo purchased "because there >are no better made, and ; because. by, : ,btiying'/ifiem,; we keep many of our .oirn popple employed* besides keeping money in the-country.. :If we. buy imported goods, the* money .for,them has.to be sent away, and we are helping to "keep tither people instead of our own. .-.'Plie'young author boldlv asserts: 'I am J 7 joung New Zealaridcr/and I intends to buy New-Zealand 'made goods, and I hope all ,other New Zealanders will-.do the same.' if this spirit grouts it will knock the apathy out of. soine shopkeepers. ■ . •>

' m is as. follows: —lrcuo Sievwright, reread'.(sokp-maiing); "Mabel Hume,' Island Bay (meat industry); . Nellie Tobin,, Kilbirnie lndrntryh w.' Millar, Maranul (cabinet.making); Harold Mooto, Wades town (timber in•dustry;jvl/i2zie.:llak<ham,' Brooklyn (gas rnami;factnre);.- Maggie. O'Cdnnell, St. JosephVE.C., Lower .Hntt (sheep-farming); Malcdlin Johnston, Sou,th .Wellington (meat industry); : Connie Davis,"St.'~XaTier's-K;C.'; Sussex Square (wool); •Frank*C,-Graham,--Wo'rser Bay (meat industry); .11. ,C. Koseingrav'e, Dixon Street:R.C. (woollen llldnstfy); ! 'Tli6lnas':Wilk(!s, Northland'(inea't industry); H.Galvin, Petone B.C. (meat, indus.try); "Clare" Curtis, Khandallah (''Why peopleshould:'biiy.yN.ew- Zealand made goods.,); lexie Osborne, .Eptini (New Zealand Industries: Meat,.' oandles;' : b'utlefi'-wool,'.'kauri gum); Harold' Corkill, Clyde.Quay (paper manufacture); A. Vile, Te Aro (meat indiistry); A. Bolton; Roseneath (woollen goods); Violet Palmer, Mount CookJ3irls (meat: industry) ; Helga Lynneberg, I Kaiwarraiitsoap'mafcihg); Percy "Lee; Petone. District, r-tftgh '(".B&6ona';why:- : , local."-.industries should. .bovsnppOrted"); Arthur Cox, Karori' ("Keiisohs- why: local industries' should; be Sunported "); John Jlolloy, Marist Brothers, (fruit growing and preserving); Mary Loftman, Mitchelltoivn (woollen goods); Frank O'Connor, ;Mount. '~CookVßoys' ("Why , lorial : indnstries should be encouraged "); Gertie Trezise, John~sonvilto (ftfirilten. industry).'" . - -