PALMER PRIZE
NAVY LEAGUE ESSAYS
The following is the result of the Palmer Prize Essay competition' conducted by the Navy League:— . "Sea and Air Defence."—Senior boys prize: Hubert Witherford, Wellesley College, Wellington; next in merit, Norman Richard Morgan, St. Andrew's College, Christchurch; Donald Campbell Gray, Scots College, Wellington; Garnet William Grave, .Waitaki Boys' High School. . . "Sea and Air Defence."—Senior girls prize Edna Oliver,' Lepperton, Education Department Correspondence School; next in merit, Patricia Mary Naughton Macßeynolds, St. Bride's Convent. Masterton; Marion Calcatt, District High School, Te Karaka; Patricia M. Jansen, St. Mary's College, Wellington; Joan Gibson, Diocesan High School, Auckland. "Battle of Jutland." —Intermediate boys' prize.—Christopher Morgan Stubbs, Waitaki Boys' High School; next in merit, Robert Owen Davies, Waitaki Boys' High School; Richard Henry Lindo Ferguson, McGlashan College, Dunedin. "Battle of Jutland." —Intermediate girls' prize, E. Margaret Westmacott, Selwyn House • School, Christchurch; next in merit, Jean Holm, Girls' High School, New Plymouth; Norah McGrath, St. Mary's High School, Greymouth.
"The Navy in Peace and War." —Junior boys' prize, Douglas Forrester Hall, Waitaki Boys' High School (Primary Department); next in merit, Frank Garfield Spile, Waitaki Boys' High School (Primary Department); Malcolm Stuart Harding Gunton,1 Otamarakau School, Te Puke; Leslie Raill, St. Joseph's School, New Plymouth.
"The Navy in Peace and War.":—Junior girls' prize, Violet Lanfear, District High School, Paeroa: next in merit, Patricia Harold, D.H.S., Paeroa; Geraldine Gane, Marlborough College (Primary Department); Dawn Lois Alder Guthrie, "Dalton's," Kai-Iwi (Education Department Correspondence School), youngest entrant.
The examiners were Mr: and Mrs. L. O. H. Tripp, Colonel R. St. J. Beere, Colonel C. Weston. Captain W. H. Hartman, Mr. B. A. Moore, and Mr. R. Darroch. . . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1936, Page 5
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272PALMER PRIZE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1936, Page 5
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