HUTT TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 70, 15 December 1939, Page 13

HUTT TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Prize-giving Ceremony

VALLE OF BOOKS AND

MUSIC

A person could not get everything o of life unless he bad access to books .i d music, said the Mbiister ol I* inaiice, Mi • Nash, speaking at the closing euin ony yesterday afternoon of the Holt I J Memorial Technical College. -) 1 '’ ' b said he wished to emphasize that the < location of the pupils present was only beginning. , , , ... In general, those present had prob, ly already decided the form of producing life in which thev wished to said. Because ol the existing ■ u stances in many cases they would ni necessarily be able to follow their own Education did not finish when one let I. school. Education was laying hold ot the factors of life that would determine a person’s character, and it was ones character in the best sense ot the word that determined what ones education had been. A person might be the most brilliant mathematician, needleworker, shorthand writer, or typist, 'but ii tli.it person had not character then his education was not half completed, borne ot the finest men in the world with regain to constructive achievements did poorly 11 S/ 1 stressing the value 01 .. books and music, Mr. Nash said that the radio, pictures and other forms ot entertainment tended to drift people away from the higher things of life, so tar as achievement was concerned. . “I have seen a lot of other countries and their potentialities, but I do not know any country where the climate, productive possibilities, freedom, sporting activity, and young life in general and middle life in general are so_ worthwhile being associated with as .in New Zealand,” said Mr. Nash. As a day high school the Hutt Valley Memorial Technical College was now 1< years old, said the chairman of the board of governors, Mr. W. B. Nicholson. Ine progress the school had made since the present principal, Mr. A. McFadyen, had taken charge, had been most remarkable. Though that progress had been made, he said, he believed it was nothing to the progress that would be made during the next 10 years. The school had a history which went back almost to the roots of Petone’s history. He commented on the foresight of the men and women who started the night classes in Petone 40 years ago. The deputy-mayor of Petone, Mr. J. CBurns, and the principal of the college also spoke. The prizes were presented by the tollowing:—Girls’ first class, second class and shorthand certificates, Mrs. M. C. Chappell; boys’ first class certificates, Mr. Nash; trophies, Mrs. Morgan; boys second class certificates, Mr. J. Stonehouse; home nursing and first aid certificates. Mr. J. C. Burns : medals and prizes, Mr. McFadyen. The following special prizes were presented :— * McKenzie medal for general excellence: Sylvia Cooper. Special prizes for head prefects: Jildna Simpson and Edward Barker. Special prize for speech day: Aletheia Benson and Ronald Blandford, first qual.