MARSDEN SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 68, 13 December 1932, Page 4

MARSDEN SCHOOL

Annual. Prize-giving All parents and friends of Marsden School, pupils are invited to be present on Thursday afternoon next at the prize-giving ceremony. A display of arts and-crafts, dressmaking, and sewing w) 11 also be on view. This work is of iin exceptionally high standard and some tine things will be shown. The prizes will be presented by Mrs. Sprott. IN CHUIICIII’ARV. The frequency with which yew trees nre found growing iu old churchyards has led to'a legend that in olden times these were'.planted by command so that their Wood might be available for making longbows, the chief English weapon of those days. But this is .not so, as all the best bows were made of foreign yew imported for the purpose. The' yews were formerly planted in churchyards for several reasons. In tho first place, being evergreen and very long-lived, they were regarded as suitable symbols of immortality in the place where the faithful wore buried; then the yews were planted round the church because the branches were often carried in procession on Palm Sunday to represent palms; mid, finally, being strong and of thick foliage, the yew was planted to protect the church from gales.