Palmerston High School

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8072, 24 August 1905, Page 8

Palmerston High School

The second term of the Palmerston North High School was brought to a conclusion yesterday afternoon by a very pleasant function, in the shape of afternoon tea sandwiched in between a number of exceptionally attractive musical items. The tea was given by the girl scholars, and most of the appetising provisions were cooked by the girls at the school under the instruction of Miss Mollison, the capable teacher of cookery to the school, and thus.-;: afforded a good opportunity of testing the efficiency of a very useful portion of the instruction given, the result proving equal to every anticipation. During an interval in the programme, the Rector asked Messrs Fred. Pirani and Collingwood, members of the Board of Governors, to say a few words to the pupils. Mr Pirani, while admitting the importance of play and recreation, dwelt on the necessity for pupils who had reached the age of those attending the school making strenuous efforts to obtain all the advantages offered by the education the school was able to give, and asked them to learn well just as efficiently as they should learn to play well. He pointed out that a great career did not depend on the advantages of position and wealth, but upon the ability and devotion with which one utilised the opportunities placed within his reach—and if a man made up his ramd to attain a certain position, it rested entirely with himself and the training he gave himself and his exclusion of unnecessary waste of time, whether he was successful. There was always room at the top, he said, for those who proved their ability to remain there. He expressed his prid.. at the position attained by the school already, the good attendance of the pupils, and at the capital spirit prevailing amongst them. They were lucky to have such an efficient staff of teachers, and he j looked forward with pleasurable autici- ! pation to the examination Mr W. Gray and his colleagues would make at the end of the ensuing term. Mr W. Collingwood referred in a few words to tho necessity of pupils acting honestly and straightforwardly at their studies and not thinking that they were gaining anything by getting the approval of their teachers for work which was only the result of cribbing and copying, for that would not avail them when they were called upon to use the knowledge they were supposed to have gained at school.

At the conclusion cheers were given for the teachers and visitors.

The following is the programme:— Duet, violin-, J. O'Brien and F. Christensen ; Misses I. and E. Brown, piano duct; song, Mr Murray; piano solo, J. Bradley; recitation, Mr AY. H. Collingwood; song, Miss E. Koehler; song, Miss J. Cassie; violin solo, A. Gelhor ; recitation, Miss Lynch; violin solo, F. Christensen; piano solo, Miss K. Spelman ; recitation, Miss L. Chapman ; song, W. Coles; piano solo. Miss N. Buchanan. Miss I. Brown played the accompaniments in excellent style both to the songs ancl the instrumental solos, Miss Gelhor accompanying her brother's solo.

At the conclusion of the function, the Rector privately addressed the teams who are going to Napier