WAIKOUAITI.

Otago Witness, Issue 2467, 26 June 1901, Page 31

WAIKOUAITI.

June 21 — A meeting of scholars and pareut& took place in the school, on Friday afternoon to bid farewell to the head niastei, Mr E. Pmder, M.A., who is leaving to take charge of the Mosgiel School. Mr T. Smith, chairman of the school committee, presided, and in his opening remarks refened to the loss the school would sustain by Mr Pinder's removal. He was pleased to see how highly thought of he was by both the staff and the children, and, on their behalf, he was deputed to ask him to accept some little token of their esteem in parting. Mr Smith then presented Mr Pinder with a set of carvers and a travelling companion. Mr Pinder, m reply, said their kind gift was ua-

expected by him until about an Jiour ago, and he was expecting to leave them ouietly. He was not going very far awsy, and intended looking them up occasionally to see how they were getting along. In that school, as in all others, there were the usual three classes of children — the good, thejinddhng ones, and the bad ones. He was always glad to see the good ones get on, and better pleased to see the middling ones get better, but he was best pleased when he got the bad ones to be good. They were forming their habits for after-life now, and he wanted them not to shirk their work, but bs honest, and the lesu't would be good for them hereafter. Mr Allcock (mayor) had great pleasure, as an old chairman, in testifying to the good quahiies Mr Pmder pos=eis>ed. He had raised the tone of the school, and all their business relations had been most pleasant. He called on the scholars to give three cheeis foi their master, which they did \ciy lustily. Mr Fleming, in regretting the loss the school was sustaining, said it would be to the gam of where Mr Pmder was going, fie would have liked Mr Pmder to have stayed a few yeais longer so that the good effect, of his teaching would have reached from the oldest to the youngest of the scholars. Mr Davis said the moie they got used to Mr Pin-der the more they hked him. He had grown in popularity, and was sure to succeed in his new sphere ?z ho got known. They were sorry his stay had bern so short in Waikouaiti. The Chairman then intimated to the scholars that a week's holiday would be given them, and armd&t cheers oncl applau c c they were dismissed. W.G.L.C— The members of the Gills' Literary Club met in the vestry of the Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening, 20th June, tc bid farewell to the Misses Malloch. The meeting took the form of a social, and a few readings were contributed, and refreshments were provided by the members. A very pleasant evening was spent Miss Paterson, the me&ident, m a few woids, referred to the warm interest the Misses Malloch had always taken m the society, and presented Miss Malloch, on behalf of the members, with a copy of Oliver W. Holmes's poems. Miss A. Malloch with Wordsworth's poems, and Miss L. Malloch, Whittier's poems. The recipients suitably responded.