AWARDS FOR ESSAY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2994, 3 February 1917, Page 10

AWARDS FOR ESSAY

Following is the list of winners of prizes offered to schoolchildren throughout New Zealand for an essay on "Jiow You Mean to Help the Empire." First Prizes (gold medals).—Whitton, Bonn, Mount Eden School; Bauine, Fred, Waitaki Boys' High. . - Second Prizes.—Deroles, Brucie, Hinau; Drummond,- Jean, Mount Eden. • Third Prizes.-Campbs.il, Jean, Wai-. tara; Brady, James. Boys' Grammar, Auckland; Wilson, llalph, Caversbam, Dunedin; Sparks, W., Wakapuaka. Fourth Prizes.—Chapman. Seymour, Masterton; Kabbadge, Phyllis,-Waijiopai; Drub,- H., Gisbome; Dearoly Margaret, Meadowbank; Archer, Pearl, To Paku; Stubbs, Kathleen,- Hastings; Arthur, Maud, Te Paku; Anuett, Alice, Kimbell; Linton, Harvey, Mangapiko; Bond,. Doris, Mataroa; Macpherson, Margaret, Mangatainolca; Wood, Roy, Tokomaru; Cameron, Veronica, Okaramio; Morris, ■Elsie, Birkenhead; Jackson, Flyndall, Kopuaranga; Boggs, M. Sydney, Greenmeadows; Macßean, Annie, Upton; Grigg, Edward Gordon; M'Corguindale, Agnes, Waihongi; AVilkan, John, Halcombe; Lochore, R., • Waitaki Boys ; Evans, Chrissic, Waimatuku; Keeling, Wybern, Carmont, Perp; Bruce, Willie, Seaticld; Reid, lone, Havelock N.; Burt, James, Mount Eden; Burt, Norah, Eketahuna; Williamson, Taradalo; Bruce, Ida, Seafield; Ashby, Emmeline, Mangatainoka; Bunn. Mabel. Rongahere; Kidd, Jessie, "South," Oamaru; Palmer, Richard, Patutahi; Gibson, Annie, Turakina; Leech, Barbara, Waitara; Dryland, Nellie, Mount Eden; Nolan, Gertrude, Hazelburn'; Brooks, E., Taradale; Stagpoolc, George, Springburn School; Hodgson, George, Okaramio; Hobson, Aurilia, Hatuma; Foote, Clara, Helena Bay; • Brady, Kitty, Tawine;Phillips, James, Lumsden; Poulson, Esther, Karapoti; Goodridge, Sybil. Palmerston N.; Robertson, Peggy, ■ Pongaroa; Morgan, Gladys, Temuka; Foughey, Kathleen, Gordon; Scanlon, C. D., Kaitawa; Connell, Margaret, Cavrington; Wrigley, Cladys, Bideford; Allen, N:, Thornton; Daveney, H. L. Wanganui; Brewerton, Spencer, Maitai Valley; Craig, Agnes, Coal Creek Flat.: Read, Venus,, Caversbam; Whyte, Iris, Tokomaru; Clemens, Clarence, Pukehinau.The best way boys and girls can "help the Empire" the judges decided were as follows:—

1. Try to grow up strong and healthy. 2. Work to get the best education possible. 3. Help to make onr 6oldiers happy and comfortable as possible at the front and in hospitals. i. Help all you can in the soldiers' homes while they are away defending your homes. S. Ask father and mother to try and hoi]) all they can the returned soldiers in civil life. I!. Honour and help disabled men. 7. Make war widows' and orphans' lives happy. 8. Buy British-made goods always.