Stanway School Concert.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 126, 27 November 1899, Page 3

Stanway School Concert.

The annual concert in aid of the Stanway school funds, held on Fridaj evening, was as usual a pronounced success. The following items were all very" favorably received -.—Duets, Misses Meads and Milner ; song, Mr A Williamson ; recitation, Mr W. Shannon ; recitation, Mr Burcbam ; song, Mr Charles Wilson ; song 1 ; Miss K. Shannon ; comic song, Mr Dotuhin. In the school play Iheir parts were taken excellently by Miss M. James, N. Gilbert, B. Milner, A. Green, E. James, and G. Joughins. A group of school girls appropriately dressed in red, white and blue performed the Britannia flag drill very effectively. The most popular item on the programme was the military drill pone through by a squad of boysMasters Legb, Mark and Edward James, F. Andersoo, J. Carr, J. Christian, A. Callinyham, J. Pask, and A. Milner, all dressed in naval uniform and armed with cavalry carbines. The manner in which they performed the manual exercise, firing exercise, and physical drill, .without a fault, was indeed credit- _ able. On the trapeze and horizontal *^* bar several exercises were carried outmost of which showed evidence of careful physical' culture— by Masters James (2), Voss (2), and James Pask, whilst Master Jack Carr went through some balancing movements on the bar in capital style. The zest with which the lads of the Stanway school enter into these^xercises cannot fail to effect a lasting benefit on their health and build ; in fact, from careful measurements made by tbe master of tbe Stanway school, he finds the best development in the case of boys who practice outdoor games in conjunction with gymnastic exercises — resulting in unusual chest expansion and m oscular arms. Those of the pupils who indulge in football only are weak in tbe biceps even although they work hard at home, while the "loungers," those who take no interest in football or gymnastic exercises, show bad measurements all round, and without exception have poor expansion ,of chest and biceps, and smaller in the forearm, two of the worst features of a badly developed figure. As a suitable conclusion Mr W. Shannon, who, as a college boy in Wellington, used to perform wonderfully on the bar, was called upon to show tbe boys what could be accomplished by careful practice, and he fairly astonished his audience with the perfect ease with which he went through some very difficult evolutions.