DUNDAS STREET METHODIST CHURCH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15938, 4 December 1913, Page 3

DUNDAS STREET METHODIST CHURCH.

SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY.

The pupils, teachers, and friends of tho Dundas Street Methodist Sunday School celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary in the schoolroom last evening. The Rev. T. A. Pybus presided, and the hall was crowded. Reviewing tho work done during the year, the Chairman warmly congratulated the superintendent (Mr W. M. Roberts) and his staff upon tho good results achieved in the Sunday school, and eulogised the conductor (Mr P. H. Young), whose services as teacher of singing had extended over 14 years. Mr F. W. Parker read the annual report and balance sheet, which showed that the Sunday school had been an important branch of the church for 35 years. There were 200 pupils on tho roll, and the average attendance was 140. There had been 13 changee in the teaching 6taff during the year owing to various causes, but the vacancies had been filled from time to time, and _ the school was now fully standi. Special reference was niado to the loss sustained by the death of Mr James Cable, who had worked hard for the children during his long association with tho Sunday school. Since the last anniversary the long-tnlked-of union with the sister church had brcome un accomplished fact, and the hbpo was expressed that the step taken would be the means of making, the New Zealand Methodist Church a greater power for good. Special votes of thanks were accorded the teaching staff, the members of which were congratulated upon the* progress iriade during the year. A lengthy programme of songs, recitations, dialogues, etc., followed, and during an interval Mr W. M. Roberts presented the prizes won during the year as follows:— Girls I— First class—Eileen Pollock, Ivy Hume, Bessie Scott; second class, Lena, Hendra.

Girls LT—First class—Joan Hendra, Lily Holdaway, Lily Broad; second class, Myrtle Aitken.

(Girls lll—First class, SacGo Beecher; second class, Flora Cormack.

Girls IV—First class-Rita Palmer, Bessie Hendra; second class, Queenie Thompson.

Girls V — Second class—Alico Hendra, Hazel Bain, Olive Bellworthy. Girls Vl.—First class, Phoebe Perry; second class—Mabel Thompson, Hedwig Faulkner.

Boya I.—Firet c!a«>—Robert Munro, Alf. Holdawav, John Kidd. Boys ll.—First class—David Palmer, Stan ley Beecher; second class, Sidney Williams.

Boys lll.—First class-Jack Morris, Herbert Palmer, Nicholas Pollok; second class —Jack Good, Stanley Divers, Phil. Holdaway, Stanley Watkins. Boys IV.—Second class—Willie Hughes, Arthur Coatr.s, Charlie Barnes, Eric Williams.

Boys V,—First class, Fred, Broad; second class—Robert Perry, David Loudon, Chris. Jackson, Hugh Kicld. Boys Vl— First class, Emost Perry; second class—Tom Hughes, John Divers, Willie Burridge, Walter Jackson. Boys Vll.—First class—Alf. Perry, Harry Divers; second class—Tom Champion, Henry Hendra.

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