WAITATI SCHOOL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2287, 30 December 1897, Page 9

WAITATI SCHOOL.

The break-up in connection with the above school took plsee on the 17th, when Mr James Green presided. There was an unusually large number of parents and friends present. Me Green congratulated the children on the very excellent result of their .year's work. Recordbreaking, he said, seemed to be the order of the day, aud, following the fashion, the Waitdti children had broken all previous records in tbe hUtory of tbe school. He hoped they would go steadily on, doing their beat, aud enjoying their fchoollife. He was quite sure that after they left school they would look back with pleasure to their school days, and would think of their teachers as very kind friends. He then distributed a present of a book to every child in the school, m.Miy of the volumes for the upper Bt*ndards being very beautiful. The Rev. A. M. Finlayson then addressed the children, and moved a hearty vote of thanks to the teachers (Mr W. Davidson and Miss Far quh arson). This w»s carried with cheers. Mr Kilpatrick (chairman of the school committee) intim*ted that the holidays would lasb fix weeks. Mr Davidson, speaking for Miss Farquharson as well as himself, returned thanks for the cordial vote of thanks passed to them. He said it g»ve him special pleasure to see among those present two of hw old boys — Mr Scotb Fiolftjson (pupil | teacher in Port Chalmers District High School) I and Alexander Klee (senior scholarship holder and duxof the same school). H« then »howed the children a very handsome gold medal won by Klee, and called for cheers for the old boys, which were Riven very heartily. After cheershad beea given for the committee and heaufcy votes of thanks passed to the chairman aud visitors, sweets, which wer« generously provided by the chairman (Mr A. Kilpatriok), were distributed, and the children wer« dismissed in the best of spirits.