PALMER PRIZE ESSAYS
WELLINGTON NAVY LEAGUE'S COMPETITION RESULTS ANNOUNCED The results of the Palmer Prize Essay Competition held by the Wellington branch of the Navy League have been announced, There were three sections for boys and three for girls, and there was one prize in each section. The examiners were Miss A. Batham, Colonel R. St. J. Beere, Captain A. V. Hale-Monro, Dr Graham Robertson, Mr H. F. von Haast. and Mr S. D. Waters. The subjects were:—Senior: "Pres-ent-day Rivalry in Sea Power." Intermediate: " Discovery in the Pacific." Junior: "The Union Jack: Its Meaning and Significance.'' Every school in New Zealand was entitled to enter candidates, whether the pupils belonged to the Navy League or not. The results are as follows; Senior Boys.—Andrew James Jopp, Waitaki Boys' High School. Next in merit: Robert Noel Barton, Waitaki Boys ! High School; James Ralston Kirker. Waitaki Boys' High School Senior Girls.—Equal: Jean Holm, New Plymouth Girls' High School, and Mary Louise Kemp, Diocesan High School, Epsom, Auckland. Next in merit* Eila Simpson, New Plymouth Girls' High School; Eileen C. Wilson. Avonside Girls' High School, Christchurch; Gabrielle Brett, St. Dominic's College, Dunedin; Janet McKean Bailey, Fordell, Education Department Correspondence School; Judith Spencer, Sacred Heart High School, Napier. Intermediate Boys.—Frank Garfield Spite, Waitaki Boys'High School. Next in merit: Douglas Forester Hall, Waitaki Boys' High School; W. C. Charteris, Timaru Boys' High School. Intermediate Girls.—Maureen C. Hill. Otago Girls' High School. Next in merit: Lola Culpan, Wellsford School, North Auckland; Patsy Deans, Selwyn House School, Christchurch; Rosemary Ruth Potts. Rangi-Ruru School, Christchurch. Junior Boys.—John Torrance Hall, Waitaki Boys' High School. Next in merit: Robert Telfer Robertson, Lumsden School, Southland; Kevin McCarthy, St. Patrick's Convent, Panmure, Auckland; William Herbert Widdowson, Waitaki Boys' High School. Junior Girls.—Kathleen Judith Kent, Collegiate School, Napier. Next in merit: Ada Sheerin, St. Anne's Convent, Newtown, Welllington; Helen Thea Wilkins, Marlborough College, Blenheim; Gladys Hoar, Central School, Masterton.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23334, 28 October 1937, Page 16
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