SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AWARDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2127, 28 February 1908, Page 1

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AWARDS.

PRESENTATION AT GISBORNE SCHOOL. At the Gisborne school yesterday afternoon the medal and certificates .von by pupils for good attendance during last year were presented. Air J. Somervell, chairman of the school committee made the presentations, and was accompanied by the Rev. AY. Grant, and Alessrs G. V\ ildish ami A\ . L File, members of tho committee. A small number of visitors were present. Mr Somervell made a few appropriate remarks, urging on the children the necessity for regular attendance at school. Mr Rowley, headmaster, said that tho mfmbcr of certificates was smaller last year than in the previous year, hut taking into account that a severe epidemic of measles had visited the town last year, it could very well he claimed that an improvement had been shown. . He urged tho children to attend school regularly, because by so doing they helped the teachers considerably—it might well lie'said that every girl or boy who absented' himself or herself from school for a day kept every pupil in tho class back a day in their studies.

The Rev. AV. Grant, in proposing a vote of thanks' to the visitors, spoke of the great value in after life of tlie awards made that day. Tlie Minister of Education bad said that the Gisborne school building were the best in the Dominion, and lie (Air Grant) felt sure that through the Dominion there could not be a better staff than tlie school had.

Cheers were given for Air. Somervell, for Mr. Rowley, for the, teachers, and for the staff, and the children were then dismissed for the rest of tlie afternoon. Following is a list of tlio awards:-—■ Six Years’ Full Attendance. —S. VI. —Oswald Church; 8. V.—Julian Hansen. Four Years’ Full Attendance.—S. IV.—John Frazer, Charles Allen, Pearl Hitherall; S. Vl.—(Robert Ainbridge. Three Years’ Full Attendance.—S. II. —iSydney Wildish, Elsie Higliam; S. ML—William Wildish, Ivy Morrison; 8. .IV. —Charles Bull, Herbert Spurdle; 8. V.-—Hubert File, Douglas Alenzies, Herbert Ranger, Elizabeth Frazer; 8. Vl. Charles Mornson, .Myrtle Church, Edith AVlhlisli; High School—Beniamin Hawkins, Francis Rowley, May Aioore. ' Two Years’ Full Attendance.—S.

I. —Mary Dempsey, Alice Frazer; S. 11. —Hoiiiy Allan, Leonard Lentell, Allan Rowley, Robert Thomson; S. HI. —Jean Frazer, Dorothea O’Donnell; S. IV. —Frank Kennedy, Cecil Ellery, Gilbert Godfrey, Muriel Church ; iS. V. —Francis Bishop, Thomas Chamberlain, AVilliam Edwav.ds,, Leigh File, Eden AVhitlock, Rosina Johnston', Alary McConnell; S. Vl. Lindley Clare, ‘Frank Sunpey, Grace Alorrison; High School—James Forsyth, Ivy McConnell. One Year’s Full "Attendance. —Infa n ts —Frederick Schwabe, Baden Hnaelie, Hazel Eaton ; 8. I.—Gordon Gumming, Jubilee Whit field, Lilian Scaly ; 8. ll.—'Horace Catton, Alfred Coleman, Thom is File, Dean Handle, Leonard Nicholls, Nigel Oatriilge, John Remlell, Frank Powell, Lionel Hnowsill, Osgood AVhitlock, Alice Ambridge. Lillian Anderson, Alary Bull, Eurico Catton, Eva Hepburn, Alice Jones, Aliiriel Aliller, Lorna Robertson; 8. 111. —Hamilton Lipsett, Royren Johnstone, Allan Tarr, Eric Aylivard, James Robb, Alabel Stafford, ALav Anderson; iS. IV.—Pcreiv.il Lewis, Charles Birss, John Le AlarquaiKi, Albert Wallace, Valerie Hausen, Elsie Alorell; S. V.—Sidney Greaves, Althea Johnstone, Whetu Iveilia ; S. VI. —Archibald Adair, Colin Anderson, Charles Fairlie, Ronald Miller, Harold Aioore, Alilton Oman, Hugh Patterson, Albert Rhinesniith, Lawrence Walker, Hilda Gumming, Amelia Hawkins, Grace Greaves, Mona Parker; High School—lrene Aioore. Second Class Certificates. —Infants Frank Roche, Royal Tarr, Junes Priestly, Cedric Catton, Charles Duffv. Hazel File, Etta Hansen; S. I Leslie AloKay, Geoffrey Brown, Benito Alorris; S. ll—Eric Limn, Ernest Stock, Marjory Hooper, Eileen Withers; 8. 111. —Gordon Jones, Kepa Priestly, Isaac Robertson, Raymond Hansen. Adam Aioore, Roy JEllery, Jane Sealv, Dora iScott; S. IV- —Edwin Robb, Kate Ambndge. Frances Avlward, Winifred East, Zelma Hoo)er; >S. V. —George Adair, Cedric Tep'burn, Leonard Harries, Ronald Lewis, Ethel Black, Ina Buslinell, Edith Forrest, Clarabell Hart; b. Vi —Oswald Birr ell. Eric Clinsp, Roy Davidson, Arthur Harries, Janies Nisbott, Reginald Scarfe, Phyllis Allen, Gladys File, Helen McLean, Constance Magnusson, Kathleen Patterson, Freda Solvandcr, Ethel Ellery; High School —Thomas Jones, Allan Rice.