PRIZE-GIVING CEREMONIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 7

PRIZE-GIVING CEREMONIES.

OPINIONS OF PRINCIPALS. In the course of his monthly report to the Board of Governors of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School, last evening ,the rector, Mr J. Murray, stated that he had carefully considered the question of tho feasibility of holding tho annual breaking-up ceremony at the school, either in the assembly hall or on the lawn outside. “I am of the opinion that in neither case would it be possible to carry out the ’ requirements of our customary breaking-up ceremony,” said Mr Murray. Giving a verbal report, Mrs Rhodes, principal of the Girls' High School, expressed the opinion that it would he unfair to ask j>arents with children at two or three schools to attend separate break-up functions. It was out of the question to have -the function out-of-doors, as the weather in December was uncertain. The principal considered that it would be preferable to continue the combined ceremony. A separate prize-giving had been tried some - years ago, but it had proved “a gloomy and lugubrious afr. W. R. Birnie: If you had an assembly hall, would you favour a separate function at the school? Mrs Rhodes: Certainly. The matter was deferred indefinitely.