PALMER ESSAY PRIZES
AWARDS FOR 1936 COMPETITION ORGANIZED BY NAVY LEAGUE (United Press Association.) Wellington, October 19. The Palmer essay prizes for 1936 have been awarded as follows by the Wellington Navy League:— “Sea and Air Defence”—Senior boys’ prize, Hubert Witherfoid, Wellesley College, Wellington; nexti in merit, Norman Richard Morgan, St. Andrew’s College, Christchurch; Donald Campbell Gray, Scots College, Wellington; Garnet William Grave, Waitaki Boys’ High School; senior girls’ prize, Edna Oliver Lepperton, Education Department correspondence school; next in merit, Patricia ’May Naughton MacReynolds, St. Bride’s Convent, Masterton; Marion Calcatt, District High School,' Te Karaka; Patricia M. Jansen, St. Marys’ College, Wellington; Joan Gibson, Diocesan High School Auckland. “The Battle of Jutland”—lntermediate boys’ prize, Christopher Morgan Stubbs, Waitaki Boys’ High School; next in merit, Robert Owen Davies, Waitaki Boys’ High School; Richard Henry Lindo Ferguson, McGlashan College, Dunedin; Intermediate girls’ prize, E. Margaret Westmacott, Selwyn House School, Christchurch; ngxt in merit, Jean Holm, Girls’ High School, New Plymouth; Norah McGrath, St Mary’s High School, Greymouth. “The Navy in Peace and . War”— Junior boys’ prize, Douglas Forester Hall, Waitaki Boys’ High School (primary department); next in merit, Frank Garfield Spite, Waitaki Boys’ High School (primary department); Malcolm Stuart Harding Gunton, Otamarakau School, Te Puke; Leslie Raill, St. Joseph’s School, New Plymouth; junior girls’ prize, Violet Lanfear, District High School, Paeroa; Geraldine Gane, Marlborough College (primary department); Dawn Alder Guthrie, “Dalton's,” Kai Iwi (Education Department correspondence school and the youngest entrant).
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Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 6
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239PALMER ESSAY PRIZES Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 6
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