PRESENTATION.

Evening Star, Issue 8084, 7 December 1889, Page 2

PRESENTATION.

♦- Yesterday afternoon, at tho Girls' High School, Miss P. E. Grant was presented by the pupils of the school with a handsome tea and coffee service on the occasion of her severing her connection with the staff of tho school. Dr Stuart, the chairman of the Board of Governors, in making the presentation, said: Pupils of the Girls' High School, I have great pleasure in being present, at the request of the rector, to present your handsome gift to Miss Grant on the occasion of her severance from our school, whiah she has loyally and efficiently served for seven years. I am well aware that, as the chief assistant in the English department of the school, she throw her heart and boul and strength into its work, and had pleasure in doing so. So satistied have the governors been with her services that, in receiving her resignation, they charged me, as their chairman, to convey to her tfieir marked appreciation of them and their hearty wishes for her happiness in the future. I have now, Miss Grant, to ask you to be good enough to receive! from our pupils this token of love and goodwill, which, I am sure, will often remind you of the busy and useful days and years yon spent in the scheol—the first of its order in point of time in Australasia, and, I venture to add, second to none in efficiency. I gladly join the staff and scholars in wishing you God speed in the social voyage on which you are embarking. I am sure you join us in the prayer that your successor may have a career in all reepects as satisfactory as your own has been. The Rector, in thanking the pupils on behalf of Miss Grant, said: "Girls, Miss Grant has requested me to uudcrtake, on her behalf, the pleasant duty of thauking you for this expression of your csteom and goodwill. Miss Grant recognises and fully reciprocates the kindly feelings that have prompted you to make this gift on the occasion of her severing, her connection with tho school —hor connection as a teacher, I mean —for I trust Miss Grant will always regard horself as closely concerned with the interests and reputation of the school. Miss Grant remembers that before she was a teacher in the High School she was first a pupil, and both as teacher and pupil carries away most pleasant recollections of her connection with the school. I take this opportunity also of acknowledging, on my own behalf, the debt I owe to Miss Grant for the hearty willingness with which she has given her very efficient services to the school, and I shall consider the Girls' High School fortunate if Miss Grant's successor shows the same conscientious devotion to duty as herself.

Proceedings ended with a hearty round of cheers for Miss Grant.