PRESENTATION AT MAHURANGI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9269, 3 August 1893, Page 6

PRESENTATION AT MAHURANGI.

A public meeting was held in the Masonic

Hall, Warkworth, on the evening of July 28, to make a presentation to Mr. A. Campbell, who has lately resigned the head teachership of the Warkworth Public School. The presentation was made by Mr, Campbell's old pupils. Subscriptions came in freely from all parts of New Zealand where Mr. Campbell s pupils are scattered, accompanied in all cases by letters expressing in the most complimentary terms the high regard in which Mr. Campbell is held. One of these letters was read at the meeting, in which a number of his old pupils settled in Taranaki testify to the able and faithful manner in which, for so many years, he discharged his duties as head teacher of the Warkworth school, arid wishing him peace and prosperity wherever he went. The presentation made to Mr. Campbell was a beautiful and valuable writing bureau. It was hauded over to him by Mr. .1). Morrison, who, as well as the chairman, Mr. Alexander Warin, and Mr. W. Wilson, old pupils, spoke in the highest terms of Mr. Campbell's efficiency aud the regard entertained for him by all of them. Mr. Campbell very feelingly replied, and thanked them for the kind words spoken about him, and the valuable testimonial given him. He said that while, in many ways, lie sincerely regretted his departure from Warkworth his present position was not without compensating circumstances, oue of which he specially valued—namely, the liberty it gave him to act and speak without restraint, which liberty—while he was an official—was in some measure curtailed. The Rev. R. McKinney was called upon by the chairman to speak. He said he knew Air. Campbell perhaps better than any of them, having been chairman of his school committee both in Matakana and Mahuraugi for a great number of years, and the more he knew of his old friend the better he liked him. He regretted his leaving them, and said that with Mr. Campbell's departure from Warkworth one of the most endearing ties that bound him to the place was broken. Excellent music and the

inevitable dance agreeably diversified the proceedings of a very pleasant evening, The success of the presentation was greatly due to the exertions of the committee appointed for getting it up, and especially to Mr. V. Wilson, jun., the energetic secretary. —[A Correspondent.]

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