N.E. GALLEY SCHOOL

Evening Star, Issue 16988, 10 March 1919, Page 2

N.E. GALLEY SCHOOL

CONCERT AND PRIZE-GIVING. There was a crowded attendance in the Town Hall at North-east Valley on Saturday, evening on the occasion of tho presentation of last year’s school prizes at a concert Isold in aid of the school prize fund. Mr J. J. Bardsley (chairman of tho Northeast Valley School Committee) presided, and the Mavor of the City (Mr J. J. Clark) and Mr J. ’Wallace (chairman of the Education Baord) were also in attendance. Tho school band (under the conductorship of Mr Colbert), looking very smart and proud in their new uniforms, opened the proceedings with tho National Anthem, and also played several selections during tho evening in a manner which brought forth rounds of applause from the audience. The programme of vocal items was intersperse a with a number of instrumental selections by Misses Bayley and M'Callum (violin) and Mr Geo. Christie (cornet); and variety was also secured in the form of dancing, the sailors’ hornpipe being gracefully given by Miss Beulah King, who also appeared later in the evening with Misses Lockhart, M'Carthy, and Budge in a Highland reel. A humorous song (‘My Wife’s Cake’), by W. R. Budd, was especially welcomed by the younger members of the audience; and tho Item by Mr P. M'Carthy, who recited ‘ How Uncle Moses Counted the Eggs,’ was most pleasing and amusing. The vocalists for the evening—Misses Jessie Christie and Alma Finnerty and Messrs J. Paterson, Finnerty, B. Rawlinson, and Clifford Flamank —are all well known to Dunedin audiences, and they were all heartily received and warmly applauded for their selected songs. The accompaniments were played by Mrs Finnerty and Miss Christie. Tlie members of the band were presented with the certificates they won at the last session held by tho Competitions Society by

tho Mayor, who also presented the dux of the school with tho medal donated by Mr Neill. The Navy League prizes were presented by Or Begg, and the Rechabite temperance prizes by Mesdames Peart and Begg and Mr Calder. Tho school prizes were presented bv Messrs Elliot, Wallace, and Walker. M.PI Mr G. Campbell, secretary of the Northeast Valley School Committee, was in charge of the arrangements, and he is to be congratulated on tho success of the gathering. The following is the prize-list:—■ Standard Vl.—Boys: Harold Egley 1, Eric Jory 2. Girls: Dux of school, Elizabeth Benfell (gold medal presented by Mr P. C. Neill), Doris Davis 2. Standard V.— Boys : Richard Johnston 1, Leslie Colbert and James Brown (equal) 2. Girls : Evelyn Kay 1, Viola Marshall and Dorothy Timms (equal) 2. Standard IV.—Boys : Colin Macdonald 1, Arthur Beckingsale 2. Girls : Kathleen Wright 1, Clarice Colbert and Margaret Sinclair (equal) 2. Standard IIL—Boys: Alfred Grass 1, Leonard Woods 2. Girls: Jean Brown 1, Edith Reilly 2. Standard ll.—Boys : Geo. Fitzsimmons 1, Fred Whipp 2. Girls: Jean M'Jntosh 1, Violet Stephens 2. , Standard I.—Boys : Errol Beckingsale 1, Donald Reilly 2. Girls; Hattie Arthur 1, Flora Bayley 2. Lower S. I.—Boys : Cedric Revs 1. Roy M'Carthy 2. Girls: Poppy Christie 1, Lilas Samson 2. Temperance Essays (prizes presented by North-east Valley Rechabites). —Standard VI. : Elizabeth Benfell 1, Jessie Aitehison 2. Standard V.; Richard Johnston I, James Brown 2. Standard IV. : Violet Hill 1, Kathleen Wright 2. Navy League Essays.—Standard VL : Harold Egley 1, Elizabeth Benfell 2, Doris Davis 3. Standard V. i James Brown 1, Richard Johnston 2, Hazel Dunn 3.