MAPUA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 April 1928, Page 7

MAPUA

I'AIiRWKI.L TO I’OITI.An TKACIIKK

A number of I lie school reimnilti'C parents assembled to b;J Firewall to tiio ret-imi# iearlier, .."Vli.'ts fieroby, who ha: 3 left ivi.apiij 'iw 111ayniw '«ilie m U;c .NorHi Island .'>•! A Forsyth, ehairma:. oi t:.e com mitlee. remarked tout only the strew <>:' Mie export season prevented many others from being present : lun the children wished to do something to show theil appreciation of ami affection for theii teacher.

Miss Poppy Senior then presented Miss Sevuhv with a nmiwco purse on behalf uf iln> school children. Mi Forsyth t-nllr-.l oil the Rev. \Y. Humble, who ably voiced tin 1 feelings **f tin* c,ai hci ill;; Ho si a toil that as one in.! ih i oct! v in lei est oil in tin- working nl ili.- school In l was in a posit ion lo hear union? .-.ed i.pinnule on tin* school ..ml I lii‘ I encht r of ii. in I In- course ..f ins pastoral visitation: ami lm was sure Miss Sirubv was liked l.y noth children ami paiaiiis. lie spoke feelingly <>i a teacher's difficulties. and the imposeioilitv of pleasing everyone; hut thought that Miss Scrllhy had conie as near to that as anvoiie eould he expected to do. |On the other hand lie said that Miss

Scruh\ had emphasised what a line committee slit' hail an<l lluW well 111<• V wtii'kftl fur ilic pn'J cl tlic St lioul. Ilf considered tin* school concert one* nf the fiiipsl In l liatl heard from chil<lr<-n. Ilf* also referred to tin* assistants* "Miss Sc in 1> v had several tones rendered to tilt* chllivh as ;m elocntiuinst ;it euneerts anil socials, and asstued her id the ”ind v, ishes of the community wherever she 111 i c 111 u r u.

Mr K.irsylli recalled that Mapua was Miss Scrtihv's tirsl school in New Zealand. lie‘ thought it was wonderful lni\v slit- hail adapted 1 1 <-rst-11 to dihercnt conditions of school work in coining Imm the other side oi till* world, aiul I mill a city to a country school. As lime went on .Miss Scritby s critics had In-come her heartiest supporters lie was convinced that the morale oi tin* school was equal to that, of any school in New Zealand, and that character was 1 icing limit m the school, lie expressed the hojie that Miss Sciuby might shortlv lie hack again, if not to leach the school at least to reside in their midst, lie. had great pleasure in pv(‘si‘iilinj4 liri* with ii sniiill tokt'ii oi .qiprecialion from the members of Ijn* committee and the parents of the scholars. , Messrs A. Wells and I'. Moults also added their testimony to the work of Miss Scruby in tin- school ; atul little Stanley Pmsclil. the voungest- scholar, presented her with a bouquet. -After the singing of "For they are jolly good fellows!" and three rousing clieers for Miss Soruhv and Colonel Roberts. an adjournment was made, to- the shelter shed, where a dainty afternoon tea was enjoved. _ , , , ... -Miss Scrnbv and Colonel Roberts left Mapua on Saturday direct to Wellington by tin* s.s. Nikon.