STUART WILSON CUP.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19039, 8 December 1923, Page 10

STUART WILSON CUP.

HAMPDEN SCHOOL’S. SUCCESS. At the Hampden School yesterday Master Lance Stevenson, the winner of the first pgyzo in the Otago Expansion League’s competition for school pupils, received the trophies ho had won. The prize consisted of a gold watch suitably inscribed, which was presented on behalf of tlie league by Mr E. Tamblyn, who eulogised the tine work pht in by the winner, as shown by bis remarkable record of over 22 tons of potatoes .to the acre. Mr Tamblyn expressed the hope that the pupils of the school who had entered for this year’s competition would endeavour to beat even that tine performance. Mr M'Gillivray (acting agricultural instructor for Otago and Southland), on behalf of the department he represented, presented the winner with a gold medal and a certificate as the holder for the year of the Stuart Wilson Dominion Challenge Cup. This is the second time that the Hampden School has secured this coveted trophy, and this year’s success is the more creditable because the cup was won by a Taranaki competitor last year, and now, in open competition, it lias returned to Otago. The secretary of the league (Mr W. B. Steel) presented the school cup which goes every year to the school which produces the prize-winner, and in handing it over to the safe keeping *of the headmaster (Mr Arnold) the speaker pointed out that Hampden was now engraved twice upon the cup. The pupils of the school evinced the keenest interest in the proceedings, and heartily applauded their successful comrade and the speakers. Master Owen Gould, a previous winner, was also presented (by proxy) with a commemorative gold medal.