KENNINGTON SCHOOL

Southland Times, Issue 22491, 28 January 1935, Page 3

KENNINGTON SCHOOL

THE ROLL CALL.

(From . Our Correspondent.)

A beautiful afternoon on Thursday succeeded a stormy morning for the roll-call. The whole assembly was photographed first, then each decade as it was called. Second decade, 1895-1905: Teachers, Miss Mullay and Miss S. Dunlop. Girls: Agnes Crombie (Mrs R. Dick), May Crombie (Mrs McClea), Florence Hibbs (Mrs V. Swale), Miss S. Dawson (Mrs N. Dunn), Miss E. Pay (Mrs A. Henderson), Miss B. Pay (Mrs, T. Wilson), Miss J. Sutherland (Mrs S. Bums), Martha Sutherland (Mrs J. Watt), Miss M. McLennan, Flora Dawson (Mrs J. Dowlmg), Isabel Hain (Mrs Darragh), Miss May Halliday, Miss M. Thompson (Mrs Goodall), Miss L. Thompson (Mrs Mackiver), Ada King, Bridget Shand (Mrs Gilfedder), Mabel Fairweather (Mrs Dawson), Miss W. Fairweather (Mrs Fraser), Miss’N. Fairweather (Mrs Thomas), Edith. Dawson (Mrs Tayler), Lottie Thompson (Mrs Halliday), Miss E. Williamson, Miss A. Dawson, Miss Robinson (Mrs Smith), Annie Hain (Mrs Fox), Miss G. Sutherland (Mrs Agnew) Mina Alexander (Mrs J. Peters), Tui King (Mrs Kennard), Miss E. Dawson (Mrs B. Hector), Miss S. Warren (Mrs Tuffrey), Annie Dawson (Mrs Tregarthen), Bertha Dawson (Mrs Lindsay), Myrtle Crack (Mrs Robbey), Alice Alexander (Mrs Mills), Miss N. Fowler (Miss Shields, Irene Pay (Mrs Pattison), Isabel Hain (Mrs P. Darragh). Boys: J. D. Campbell, A. Sutherland, A. Halliday, J. Halliday, G. F. Dawson, J. Dawson, A. McLennan, W. Williamson, J. Sutherland, F. A. Hughes, D. Crombie, G. Matheson, D. Henderson, C. Calvert, O. Bone, W. G. Moncur, C. Arnold, C. Crack. To call the roll of ex-pupils and present pupils for the rest of the decades it was considered would take too long and they were just grouped for their photograph. Thanksgiving Service.

Though the weather was very stormy the hall was well filled for the thanksgiving service. The Rev. Thomson conducted the service and Mrs Pasley read the 103rd Psalm. A number of well-known hymns were sung and the Rev. Thomson gave the address, saying:—“We should praise God . with our whole personality not only with deeds, but in words, for all His benefits, for those benefits we have received in our school life arid for everything we receive day by day in the school of life and for the great blessing that God will forgive all our iniquities. Those pupils who were at the school 50 years ago and who are present at this service this morning should be thankful for that and for the wonderful foundation of that early instruction that gave you the future training for your life. More scientific methods are used in these days in instruction, and the modem instructor draws on the faculties of the child’s mind. We should be thankful to our teachers who try to make our children good men and women. We should be thankful for all our enjoyment in life, our sport and social life. The school of life is but a school; what is sorrow, trials, privation, the depression or prosperity, only the training of the all wise to bring us to higher things. We don’t need to live on the froth and bubble of life, but to stand like stone giving ‘kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.’ The Jubilee season is a great opportunity for us to do many acts of kindness and show sympathy to others, these are the things you will be best known by in the future. Service to man is service to God in practical works to our fellow men.”

Mr W. Henderson spoke on behalf of returned soldier pupils saying the general public treated the returned men very well by attending their services and bringing along wreaths to lay them at the Memorial Gates for those, who “Not like us, stayed ‘over there.’ It is our duty and everyone to teach peace in our schools and in life, and we hope that before long our national armaments will only be a memory and then we will know that the soldiers did not fight in vain.” Mrs Pasley spoke a few words to the school children present, asking them if they knew how valuable they were to their fathers and mothers, “For no sum would buy them, and you also are very valuable to God and your Dominion. As one of the first pupils at this Kennington School, I am glad to see that the school is still filled with happy children, and I wish you health and happiness in your future life so that when you grow up, like us older pupils, you will be a credit to your school, your country and to God.”

At the conclusion of the service a procession was formed in decades, and marching to the School Memorial Gates Mrs Barraclough laid the wreath she received- the previous day, as the oldest pupil, Miss M. Lyall for the ladies’ lodge, and Mr G. Matheson for the soldiers. The singing of the National Anthem brought the service to a close.

School'Roll of Returned Men: D. Halliday, W. Henderson, H. Horsham, L. Hoskins, H. Hoskins, W. Hibbs, W. H. King, F. King, W. G. Moncur, R. G. Phillips, D. Sutherland, R. Shields, M. Simon, T. Thomson, E. Witting, R. McLeay, ,E. Agnew, A. Agnew, H. Bloomfield, E. Bonny, F. Beattie, T. Bailey, H. Brown, A. Collins, A. Cosgrove, H. Dawson, C. Dawson, F. Dawson, W. Fairweather, W. Ferguson. “These died that we might live”: C. Collis, J. Dawson, B. Dawson, J. Darragh, T. Darragh, H. Gibbs, W. Gray, D. Jones, W. Malcolm, A. McLennan, T. Matheson, J. Matheson, E. Pay, D. Sutherland, E. Shand, C. Simon, T. Young. -• . ■

TOLD BY THE BANK TELLER. A member of a Christchurch business firm connected with the distribution of Baxter’s Lung Preserver was making a lodgment at the firm’s bank when the teller remarked that he must let “Baxter’s” know what happened in his house a few nights previously. The bank teller was the proud father of a bonnie little girl who with alarming suddenness had developed a terrible crackling cough which, to use the bank teller’s words “seemed to come from her boots.”

The mother implored father to get some “Baxter’s” at once and having done so both father and mother were wonderfully relieved ,to find that one or two doses, acted like magic. “I knew Baxter’s Lung Preserver was good,” said the teller, “but the way it worked that night was simply marvellous.” . '' There is nothing like “Baxter’s” to get to the bottom of a deep-seated chest cough. “Baxter’s” quickly cuts the phlegm, allays imtation, promotes expectoration and' clears the cold right out of the system. Its tonic properties are a wonderful help also. Every chemists and store sells “Baxter’s” at 1/6, 2/6 and the extra large family bottle 4/6.—Advt.