LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Southland Times, Issue 21581, 19 December 1931, Page 7

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

SCHOOLS’ ANNUAL TEST. CERTIFICATE WINNERS. Below are the results of the short examination conducted in the primary schools by the Invercargill branch of the League of Nations Union. In 1930 there were 207 entrants and 140 certificates were awarded, while this year there have been 281 entrants and 212 have been granted certificates.' This must be regarded as satisfactory and shows that, as far as the city schools are concerned, few pupils leave without sufficient knowledge of the League to allow them to read the newspaper about it and to take an intelligent interest. In reading the appended results it must be remembered that there is no inter-school competition and that in some schools, pat. ticularly where the members are small, the entrance of the pupils was entirely voluntary. The examiner, Mr J. L. Cameron, reports as follows: — The paper set demanded a high standard of proficiency from primary school pupils, but in spite of this most schools showed the result of careful teaching and preparation. Candidates obtaining over 40 per cent, have been awarded certificates. Three schools were outstanding in the high level of the,, majority of their papers —Drummond, St. George and Tussock Creek, Drummond obtaining ..a very fine average of over 70 per cent. One common weakness appeared in the spelling of proper names and technical terms. It is suggested to teachers that in addition to oral teaching they should give their pupils practice in writing the more difficult words. Candidates worthy of special mention (over 80 per cent, are: St. George. Margaret E. Anderson, Eric J Gallagher, George Helm, Herbert Shuttlcworth, Alan Swain. Drummond: Doris Galt, Ona I. Linklater. Tussock Creek: Isa M. Marshall. Middle; Winsome Blue, Ana Mary Halbert. The following is the list of pupils awarded certificates:— DIPTON: Minnie Finlayson, John Watt, Gladys Craig, T. Murray Wilson, Mildred Palmer, Meldrum Cosgrove, William Stewart, Hazel Watson, Alan Cochrane, Samuel Brown, Mavis Craig, Frances Enwrightj Elva M. Ewen, John Kean DRUMMOND: Doris Galt, Norman Turner, Thcmas Johnstone, Ona Linklater, John Sutton, Mary Meehan, Mary Wilson, Dorethy Jesperson, Violet Roberts, Muriel Hallum, Christopher Robertson, George Batchelor.

ERMEDALE: Onie M. Fraser, Mary Stalker, Douglas L. Watkinson. EAST GORE: H. Norman Burrows, Fred Sinclair, John C. Graeve, Watson A. Rhodes, Holly Mackley, Margaret McLeod, Gwen Stewart, Florence Pollock, Helen Black, Edna Thomas.

GORE: Esme Hyde, Marion M. Moore, BeMie Mitchell, Margery C. Allan, Muriel J. Harrison, Lucille Wallis, Peter Glasson, Lex Turnbull, Ronald Hazlett, Jack Jopp, J. Findlay McArthur, John D. Wilson, Albert W. Yates, Jas A. Weir, Gordon Wylie, John K. Brown.

HEDDON BUSH: Daphne Ogilvie, Tony Boyle, Lily Ogilvie. MAKAREWA: Douglas Blackler, Horace G. Lee, Melton Jones, Douglas Callaghan, Allan Taylor, Roderick McDiarmid, Edith E. Bell, Mbllie Crowe. MIDDLE: Winsome Blue, Constance Daubney, Ana Halbert, Eva Johnson, Joan Wilson, Lily Lea, Thora Lapsley, Sylvia Porteous, Rhoda Ward, Winifred Pennington, Margaret Moore, Dorothy Symon, Dorothy McEwan, Gladys Russell,. Robina Laughton, Gladys Tomlins, Ethel Joyce Neame, Jessie Kerr, Doris Pettitt, June Springford, Daphne Swift, Moira Taylor, Phyllis Stalker, Joy McNee, Janet Mary Lind, Madeline Brown, Ivy Dempster, Mavis McKenzie,'Audrey SJpan, Molly Hynd, Patricia Cockroft.

MIMIHAU: James Millar, Margaret McLaren, David Mcßride. NOKOMAI: Donald McGrath, Philip McGrath.

NORTH: Edna Whitaker, Braenda Marshall, Joan Hemmings, Ruth Cook, Marjorie Hughes, Dorothy Kennard, Prosper MacDonell, Dulcie Pullar, Aileen Sharman, Joyce Davis, Edith J. Rillstone, Ena Mavis Clapp, Gwen Sutherland, Gwen Chalmers, Winnie Gerrard, Mavis Gregory, Margaret Kennedy, Mary Agnew, Dorothy Stott, Joan Gilbertson, Cyril Gray, Wm. Strathern, Forbes Scott, Gordon Ryan, Colin Martin, Wilson Treweek, Herbert Brown, Harry Bates, Robert Field, Cyril Ward, Fred Robertson, Gilbert Widdowson, James Treweek, Hugh Ritchie.

SEAWARD DOWNS: Joyce Palmer, William Bagrie, Phyllis Rule, Edith McNamara, William J. Wylia. Walter Martyn.

SOUTH: Joyce Spence, Edna Fogo, Eileen Maunder, Betty Semmens, Winifred Shiels, Joan Smith, May Fordyce, Monica Ford, Joan Parfitt, Joyce Spence, Edna Fogo, Raymond Ferguson, Alfred Fyffe, Andrew Wilson, Alexander Adamson, John K. Baxter, Arthur Insall, Ronald A. Stewart,, Leslie Adamson, Alexander Lindsay, Edward Leary, Leslie Frampton, Allan Duff, Alan Alsweiler, Leslie Boyer. ST, GEORGE: George Helm, Vincent Bemrose, Alan Swain, John Pryde, Walter Voice, Eric Gallagher, Fred Cleveland, Herbert Shuttleworth, Herbert Smythies, John Halford, Rae McDougall, Lucretia Irvine, Florence Walsh, Mary Holland, Lola Hoffman, Margaret Anderson, Marjorie Meffan, Florence Orr, Joycelyn Taylor, Bona Bain. ST. JOHN’S: Hilary Jones, Barbara Cuthbertson, Shivley Owen-Johnston, Kathleen Moffett, Betty Mottram, Alison Rowley, Mary Nichol, Elizabeth Barrett, Margaret Oliver.

TUSSOCK CREEK: Stewart Lawrie, Lvall George, Sylvia Lake, Charles Lake, Nellie Lake, N. J. Mclntyre, Donald McKerchar, Isa Marshall, Jessie Lightfoot.

WAIHOPAI: Stephen Barclay, Alan de la Mare, Joyce Mackrell, Edith Mclnnes.