ARTHUR STREET SCHOOL SHOW

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18516, 29 March 1922, Page 9

ARTHUR STREET SCHOOL SHOW

(Contributed by a visitor.) The advantages of school gardening amongst even the city sohools is yearly becoming more and more recognised. Quite a number of our urban sohools utilise this important subject in a meet creditable manner and tne artistic displays and excellent vegetables are a delight to parents and pupils alike. The school show is a valuable _ adjunct to the garden work, and such a display aa Arthur Street School laid out on Friday last was a credit to the school and the homes connected with that school. The flowers were of fine quality, whilst the floral designs were most artistic in the arrangement, The vegetable class was well represented ; the oarrots. cabbages, parsnips, and onions being well grown. Many plates of fine fruit, chiefly apples, were exhibited The cookery and sweets were well competed in, and the display gave the show the appearance of a high-class caterer’s establishment. The industrial side of the show was by no means neglected. The pupils’ woodwork, toys, writing, mapping, and drawing were up to the school’s best standard. The judges were Miss Ross (cookery and sweets), Misses M‘Pherson and Pilkington (sewing and fancy work), Mr C. Wakelin (handwork), and Messrs J. Nelson and J. M*K. Miller (flowers, vegetables, and fruit). The shqw had been organised by Mr Bringans, who takes the gardening classes in Standards V and VI, and was really the work of the pupils of the upper standards Messrs Nelson and Miller, on the completion of their judging, congratulated Mr Bringans, not only on his beautiful school garden, but also on this laudable venture that had resulted in a show which, in arrangement and results, was more than a recompense for the time and labour devoted