PROFICIENCY PRIZES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 7

PROFICIENCY PRIZES.

PRESENTED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE It is tho pleasmo annually of tho Wellington Chambei ot Commerce to present twenty-Jour guinras' worth of prize , ) to the State schools of Wellington city tpj nronoiency in three grrat coDjiucrciiil es^entiftfs—miting, arithmetic, and competition. Thirteen sihools in a)l aie mcludod in the hbt, and in tho caso of tach school prizr , ; are (ji\Rn for tho best ■> scholai in each subject lriespectua of box, The - pnzes for tins jeur are & be presented to - tho successful and girls b> tho president of tho chamber (Mr- W. G Dutfue) at 3 o'clock r this afternoon 111 the Chamber of Commerce. 1 National Mutual Buildings Tho names of 0 the prizewinners uio as fpllQW(— s Brook)} n—Writing Kathleen Simpson) arithmetic Harold Keeble, composition, Kath--1 Icon Simpsqn. s Clyde Quay—Writing Gertrude Andrews, arithmetic: Harqld Corkill and Cjnl Tipbig, i iu»npoMC}on Jack Wpods. 1 fblnnd Ba> —Writing Gladjs T WpUS| composition Erlo Crawford. f lvflbirji(e—WrJhnf, Grace llclun, arithmetic Vincent Cantji copippsition Ida Drawbridge Maranm—Writing Gjpdys Soropspji, arjthe motic \yilham Miller, compot>iticn, Agnes il GoodtelL v 1 Mount Conk Girls'.-Writing Kubj E, il M'Kinloj, arithmetic Violet Palmer; wmposi- , tion Margaret T M'Garrj i CyjiL Haughoyj arithmetic Gladys Biddlo; composition Daisy Ehod.es. Mount Cook Boys'.-Wntuig.. William Roberts; arithmetic Charles Aam.pdt, composition. Frank O'Coijnori Lna Bell, arithmetic; Arthur Kirk, Vera Llo}d Northland— Wqting. Wallaco Groses, composnio|i Mabel Gapes 0 Rosenosvth-Writing Arthur B. Taylor; 1 anthmetio. Dartney Adanib; composition Aril thur Bird. 0 South Wellington.—Wrjting, Edna Gell, r ""''""Che Wjll)am C|iogn idcjen , ppmposition i s Malcolm Johnstone a -n'ty A TB-Wiiting. Kafp fuller j arithmetic- , Portei , , composition Sjdney I 1 rhorndoii.-WFiting Lanna Morgan, anth- > motio Constanco l[fib|n, (.omposition Lavma (I Morgan. a Tcrraco,-Wnting- Tfno Sioywright; arith- -- metic Leslie Edpiondsoa, pomppsitipn Hilda q Norton. 1 n Wadcstown.-Wntingi Ifelita Godaard; - wittuuetic Ji phja Goddardj composition s Daisy Qqddard, 0 I? A stirring act of comradeship is relate/ in ■ connection with an accident to p bushman, which occurred at the end ot last v.cck (writes our Auckland correspondent) jFohn Dn^is,, '' nhilo woiking in a \allej on one of Dr Hay--1" ner's, Karekare timber reserves, was pinned to '' the ground b\ a rolling log. His position * was perilous, out hie soie oonipanion, Harry » Wilkins, succeeded aftei great muscular exer- " tion in ''jacking' , off the pinning log Davis t being by this time quite upcopEO)on,s, Wilkins '* boro his 13s.t "buiden up the 6tcop h|Uside, " until assistance could be summoned Evert 1" then Wilkins «as fprempsf m the efforte at ." revival, and when the injured lumberman ' came round it was to find his mate _ 'praying him with water from a spring. After , being rjorno by willing oarners for somp distance in a stretphor, Davis driven to hit . home at Aiopdale Although severely crushed, T he has been making reassuring progress.