TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15488, 14 December 1910, Page 3

TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES. The annual breaking-up ceremony and distribution of prizes in connection with the Christchurch Technical College. Day School took place yesterday afternoon. There was a large gathering of students, and a fairly largo representation of the adult interest in the College. The chairman, of the Board of governors, Mr C. Allison, presided, and, in addition to other members of the Board and members of the College staff, there were present Professor J . Mac-millan-Brown and Mr T. h. Taylor, M.P.

The chairman said that the College had continued to extend its usefulness, and though there had been some variation in the. attendances in the various departments of the curriculum, the net result was that the roll contained IM more students than it had at the end of the previous year, and that during the three vears and a half of its establishment, "the attendance had been quadrupled. Though it liad not been in any wav superseded, the commercial course had not been taken by so large a proportion of the Students as in previous sessions, and the conclusion to be drawn from this fact was that the people ot Christchurch were beginning to realise the importance of the practical side ot life, and of equipping their children tor their future station in life. Ho emphasised the importance, of practical training in view of the vast industrial changes that had developed during the past two generations, very largely as a result of the improvement ot the means of communication. In his report on the work of the year, the director, Mr J. 11. Howell, said that when the school was opened m July 1907, fifty-six pupils were enrolled, and by the end of that year the number had increased to 10'2. In 1908 .the roll number had been increased to : 1(33, and in 1909 to 221, while the fourth session had closed with a roll number of 280 students. Of the latter number. 113 had taken the commercial course, 87 had attended classes in industrial training, 52 had been instructed in domestic science and the remaining 28 had taken the agricultural course. The level of work attained during the year had naturally been higher than in previous years, mainly on account of the improved facilities and the increased staffing, especially in the engineering department. By securing a site of eleven acres for the extensions and for playing-iields. the Board had taken a step that ho believed would, in the eyes of posterity, appear to bo the wisest over made in connection with the institution, and the year would also be a memorable one from the fact that, the project of a training hostel for girls had taken definite shape. The address given by Professor Macinillan Brown proved thoroughly interesting, and at its conclusion, he was warmly applauded. He expounded the apparent paradox that the oldest members of the community were the babies, who were the centres of attention and emotion, whose merest whim was law, and who wore, in fact, omniscience and omnipotence incarnate. lu.the baby were concentrated all the instincts of the ages of the past, but, unfortunately, as it gained in fluency it lost truth, and the world was robbed of the revelation that it could give. The heritage of the past yas lost, and the child had then to build up by slow habit and slowknowledge, the heritage of the future, passing through, in its attainment, the dimness of a no-man's land, and the purgatory of the undefined and the undeiinable. The only way to become young again was to avoid all unnecessary friction, having nothing to do with the inevitable, but remedying all that was remediable, and by cultivating a serenity of disposition, and by placing reason on the "box-seat,'' giving it a free rein upon the passions and the emotions. It would be a poor sort of world that was absolutely smooth," and a world without inequality and the competition that was based upon it, was impossible. Inequality and competition ■ prevailed through Nature, and only optimistic dreamers could conceive a' state free from those elements. Every i action had a far-distant influence, just as the whispers of monarchs and of Parliaments reached to the ends of the earth, and every incident and every deed was inseparably woven.into the tissues of human life.

The prizes were presented by Mrs Allison, the prize-list being as follows :

Awards for general kindliness and helpfulness—Commercial classes: Daisy Rajiley, Hilda Thompson and William Smith; Industrial classes: .lames Clarke and Frank Morrison; domestic science classes: Mary Frizzcll and Janet Bolt; agricultural classes: N. Jar man. Special prizes for marked improvement, during the year —Commercial classes; C. .'l, Lilian Davison; C. 2, Murita Marquet; C Clarice Roberta; C. 1, Vera. Pirrie; industrial classes: I. 2, Frank Thompson; I. 1, John-Sutherland and Clarence Johnson: domestic science: Ella Skelton and Lily Bigginß; agricultural: James M'lntosh. Special nrize presented by Miss Partridge: Rita Bartlett.

Commercial Class—C. 3: Daisy Rapley, first shorthand, typewriting 3nd business methods, first arithmetic and bookkeeping, third hygierio and dressmaking; Ivy Gillman, first English, commercial geography and history and precis, first hygiene and dressmaking, third shorthand, typewriting and business methods; Percy Quartermain. second English, commercial geography and history and precis, second shorthand, typewriting and business methods, second arithmetic and bookkeeping. C. ,1: Ella Skolton, second hygiene and dressmaking; Gwenda Newell. "third English, commercial geography arid history and precis, fourth hygiene and dressmaking, fourth best average, for the yetir. C. 2: Geraldino JTGratK first English," commercial geography and history and correspondence; Dorothy Duff, second English, commercial geography and history and correspondence, first arithmetic and bookkeeping; Agnes Tankard, third English, commercial geography and history and correspondence, second arithmetic and bookkeeping; Hoy Senior, first shorthand, typewriting and business methods; Clarico Bell, second shorthand, typewriting and business methods, second cookery, science and needlework, fourth English, commercial history and geography, and correspondence; Jessie Hodgson, first cookery, science and needlework"; Kathleen Capper, special prize for sciencev, Agnes Bruce, special prize for general excellence in typewriting; Hilda Thompson, needlework. C. 1: Grace LusK, first English, commercial correspondence, historv and ceo-rraphy, first shorthand, typewriting and business methods, first arithmetic and bookkeeping, first needlework, cookery, and science of common life; ilarj Blake, second English, commercial correspondence, history and geograph, jiecond shorthand, typewriting ana •business methods, third needlework, cookery and science of . common We. Margaret. Sapoy, third English, eoaUHKOMI, correspondence, history and R«***lW' second needlework, cookery, science, of common life; Lilian Carruthers, third shorty hand, typewriting, business methods third arithmetic and book-keepm?; Vera Pirrie, fourth shorthand, typewriting, business motnods- Linda Mason, second arithmetic and book-keeping:; C. Merrett, special prize for improvement in typewriting and general excellence; Delcie ffindle, special prize for science; Edith Lanyon, special- pnzo for neatness and oarofulness. _ Industrial Class—l. 2: H. ttoolcy first English, mathematics, pure geometry _ (senior division), second scie.nco and mechanics; 33. Gough. first, science and mechanics, first English, mathematics, pure geometry (intermediate division): G. Cooper, first English, mathematics, pure geometry (junior division) ; K. Dawbor, first geometry, machine construction and drawing, workshop practice; J. Clarke, second geometry, machine construction and drawing, workshop practice; C. Jones, third geometry, machine construction and drawing, workshop practice; J. Stinnear, special prize for general cxcellemc*. I. "1: Charles Carter, first English, mathematics, nccount-keoping, first science, mechanics; Graeme Mitchell, first workshop, drawing. geometry, building construction, machine construction, first English, mathematics, account-keeping, second science and mechanics; James Jeffries, second English, mathematics, account-keeping: Harold Dawson, second English, mathematics, accountkeeping; Claudo Palmer, second science and mechanics; Jack Sha.rpe. eecor.d workshop, drawini:. geometry, building construction, machine construction. Domestic Science Class—D. 2: Susan Fluuuner, first English, arithmetic, booklo'ojiiusr. drawing, third hygiene, cookery. la.undryv.-ork, household management, third needlework, dressmaking and millinery; Alice . (Jueree, first hygiene, cookery, laundrywork. '

household management, second English, arithmetic, book-keoping, drawing, second needlework, dressmaking, milliner}'; Grace Ditford, first needlework, dressmaking' . and millinery; Koso Maurice, second, hygiene, cookery, laundrywork, household management; Laura Straw, special prize for general excellence in English literature D. 1: Mary Best, first hygiene, cookery, laundrywork, household management, first English. arithmetic book-keeping, drawing, second needlework, dressmaking, millinery; Janet Boh, first needlework, dressmaking, millinery; Eileen TJren, second hygiene, cookery, laundrywork, household management, eeoond English, arithmetic, book-keeping, drawing. Agricultural Class—Mark Pctric, first English. _mathematics, mensuration and nocounfkeeping, second building construction, drawing, mechanics, agricultural science, second fioldwork, wool-classing, woodwork; H. Bawber, first building construction, drawing, mechanics, agricultural science, first field-wool-classing, woodwork, second English, mathematics, mensuration and accountkeeping; 11. Faulkner, third building construction, drawing, mechanics, »agricultural science, third Seldwork, wool-classmg, woodwork.

ripocißi Prizes—A. Cooper, special prize fo« neatness and carefulness in 0. 2 commercial class: Graemo Mitchell, short story competition ; R.; Bcumelburg and A. Tankard, drill.