LOCAL INDUSTRY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 3

LOCAL INDUSTRY.

ESSAY COMPETITION. PRESENTATION OF PRIZES. A function of interest to parents and the promoters of the Local Industries movement took place in the concert chamber of the Town Hall yesterday afternoon. The Mayoress (Mis. Newman) presented the prizes won by school children for essays m the Industrial Association's competitions. The Mayor presided. There were ako present on the platform Messrs. A. W. Newton (president of the Wellington Provincial iiiciusuial Association), fi. Bull, and S. S. Williams (vice-presidents), T. Ballinger and R. Partridge (members of the executive), and 11. F. Allen (secretory). . Mr. Newton expressed the thanks of the association to the Headmasters' Association,- the Education Board, and the mnnagement of the private schools, for the assistance they hud given in working out the details of the essay scheme. It was desirable to instil into the rising generation a loyalty tojvards the industries of the Dominion. The Mayor, in a short address, dealt generally with the growth oi technical educalion, recalling the rise of the Wellington Technical bchool. Skilled labour was becoming more and more necessary with the advance of industries. Children should aspire to become something more than unskilled latsoureis. Ha firmly believed in the policy of the Industrial Association in its Industries Week, and its competition for children on the subject of local industries. He trusted that in the future, if it became necessary to Jill any skilled position, it could be filled by n>en trained in New Zealand schools. (Applause.) The jMUyovess then distributed tha prizes as lollow : — liene Sievwright, Terrace (soapmaking) ; Mabel Hume, Island Bay (meat industry) ; Kellie Tobin, Kilbirr.ie (meat industry) ; W. Millar, Maranui (cabinetmaking) ; Harold Moore, Wadestown (timber industry) ; Lizziei Makeham, Brooklyn (gas manufacture); Maggie O'Connell, St. Joseph's R.C., Lower Hult (sheep-farming) ; Malcolm Johnston, South' Wellington (meat industry) ; Connie Davis, St. Xavier'a R.C.j Sussex-square (woo!) ;' Frank C. Graham, Woivser Bay (meat industry) ; M. C. Roseinorave, Dixon-streefc R.C. (woollen industry); Thomas Wilkes, Northland (meat industry) ; H. Galviu, Petone R.C. (meat industry) ; Clare Curtis, Khandallah ("Why people should buy New Zealand-made goods") j Lexie O*«t>orne, Epuni (New Zealand Industries : IVJeat, candles, butter, wool, kauri gum) ; Harold Corkiil, Clyde-quay (paper manufacture) ; A. Vile, ,Te Aro (meat industry) ; A. Bolton, Roseneath (woollen goods) ; Violet Palmer, Mount Cook Girls (meat industry) ; Helga Lynneberg, Kaiwarra (soap-making) ; Percy. Lee, Petone District. High ("Reasons why local industries should be supported"); Arthur <Jox, lvarori ("Reasons why local industries should be supported") ; John Molloy. Maiist Brothers (fruit growing and preserving) ; Mary Lof tn an, MiUhelltown 'woollen "goods) ; Frank O'Connor. Mount Cook Boys ("Why local industries should be enccuraged'"); Gertie Trezise, Johnsonville (woollen industry) ; Herbert Freeman, Thorndon (timber industry); Ma\is Castle, Newtown (local industry). Mr. T. Balliuger added a few words, relative to tho building of a new Technical school, towards the establishment of which the Industrial School had done something. On the motion of Mr. Newtown, a hearty vote of thanks was given ti e Mayor and Mayoress?.