MOUNT COOK SCHOOLS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8609, 20 December 1913, Page 7

MOUNT COOK SCHOOLS

GIRLS.

At the breaking-up function at tho Mount Cook Girls’ School it was announced that word had been received from the Education Department that Agnes .Burbidge had been awarded the copper plaque given by the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society for the best essay by a schoolgirl in the North Island on “The Benefits Accruing to the United Kingdom and its Dominions on the one hand and to tho United States on the other from tho Treaty of Peace in 1814.” Attendance certificates and awards wore presented as follows:—Medals for full attendance (from"' the head mistress).—L. Campbell (five years’ unbroken attendance); V. Greenfield (four years’ unbroken attendance); 0. Smith (three years’ unbroken attendance) . Special Prizes.—Workbasket, K. Winstanley, for sewing (given by Airs Fuller). Elocution.—O. Smith, 1; V. Alason. 2. Prizes for essay, given by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.—E. Clift, 1; . W. Hewitt, 2. Navy League Essays.—P. Adams,. 1; Jl. Wilson, S. Standard VI. (prized,

given by Mias Holm). —Dux, W. Nash ; improvements. C. Butler; neatness, F. North, E. Khouri. and Frances, Pisani; spelling, M. Mountier and W. Hewitt; homework, L. Campbell and G. Fries. Standard V. (prizes given by Mies Halley)—Neatness, I. Hoaro; Highest marks, M. Wilson. Full-attendance certificates for 1913 (not more than five halfdays absent). —Standard VI. —C. Butler, L. Campbell, G. Campbell. G. Fries. V. Greenfield, R. Jacka, E. Khouri, V. Mason, O. Smith, L. Stuart, F. Pisani, A. Bennett, D. Danks. G. Williams. M. Hanley. Standard V. —M. Guy, I. Hoare, A. Newton, I. Snow, F. Upston, E. Williamson, D. Hancox, V. Payne, F. Kutner, T. Crawford, M. Kelly. Standard IV.—L. Simpson, E. Sullivan, I. Kirk, K. Winstanley, I. Atkinson, M. Beale, I. Carmichael, M. Hedgman, M. Henderson, M. Smith, R. Watson. Standard 111. —E. McCarthy, E. Adams, M. Jacob, I. Price. R. Cresswell, M. Hill, R. Swain. J. Smart. Standard 11. —A. Payne. Standard I. —C. Beale, L. Blair, M. McNair, M. Coster, M. Bayliss, R. Drury, I. Parsloe, K. Asher, B. Nicholas, £. Robertson. Miss Holm and Miss Stevens, teachers of Standards VI. and IV. respectively, were each presented,_ by their pupils, with souvenirs of Christmaslido. BOYS. The following boys have made full attendances for the year:—H. Newman, C. Jeromson, H. Sharpe, L. Palmer, T. McGinity, F. Kent, V. Isaac, P. Charman, D. Cameron J. Beaglehole, G. Adams, R. Allen, H. Andrews, A. Collcdge, A. Hanton, A. McLean, C. Roberts, 0. Solway, C. Shaw, M. Ellison, N. Bing, T. Bnerley, B. Brierley, . W. Tucker, «'• Chilas, Wm. Day, S. Piper, Higham, F. Key, E. King, H McA.li™, J. McCarthy, L. McMillan, R. Parker, N. Rowlands. W. Tonks, G. Baker, L. Barker, A. Clark. R. Cunningham, L. Hancox, J. Ogxer, C. OrNeill G. Smith, Walter Day, M. Duncan, \N m. Joyce, A. Price,, W. Davies. The following boys have not been absent more than five times Mnng the year:—H. Hall, E. Burt, W. Carter, W. Frankesberg, E. Heyward, B. Knapp, S. Loveless, V. McGuire, A. Sullivan, C. Westwood, E. Anderson, C. Bartlett, K. Beaglehole, E. Burbidge, A. Jacobson, F. Mumford, F. Petersen, G. Robertson C Boss, N. Smith. L. Spencer, W. Turvey, H. Siverson, A. Hedgman, V. McGmity, J. McLaughlan, M. Roberts, W. Thorne, I. Johnston, J. Long, N. Burley, 3. Edelman, R. Bnerley, L. Burlev R Childs, B. King, R. McGim y, if League, P. Wilson, E. Humphreys, G. Neal.