CHRIST CHURCH AND WOOD SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12766, 12 April 1910, Page 3

CHRIST CHURCH AND WOOD SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

The annual prize giving took place inthe Shelbourne Sunday school last; evening. -The vicar (the Rev J. V..; Kempthorne) presided. After prayer and the singing^* a hymn Mr Kempthorne briefly explained that Miss Batchelor was there to give an.address, • therefore he would distribute the prizes first. He explained that the method of apportioning the prizes had been changed, as a consequence there was a larger number of prizes. The system was that every child wlio made 580 marks out of a possible bUU received a first class prize ; those who made 400 a second class prize, wliilst those between 300 and 400 would receive a certificate. He mentioned that in the diocesan examination the gold medal was won by a girl in Christ Church Sunday school, Dons Moore. This was an honour (ApP The prizes. were distributed as fol°lst"ciass Boys.-First class prizes : Norman Nancarrow, Stanley Gilbert, Adrian Black, Lionel Peene; second class prizes: Stanley Cooper, Frank Eades, Clifford Peene, George Guy. 2nd Class Boys.— lst class prizes : Leslie Lockyef, Geoffrey Kempthorne, Maurice Rogers; 2nd class prizes: Nelson Guy, Percy Simmis. 3rd Class Boys.— Ist class prizes : Philip Vining, Charles Kmgsley, Norman Serin,- Harry Mac Donald: 2nd class prizes: H. Benson, Albert Eades. Ist Class Girls.— lst class prizes: Doris Moore, Constauce Kempthorne, Florence Eden; 2nd class prizes: Dorothy Grimmett. . 2nd Class Girls.— lst class prizes: May Horncastle, Winnifred Peene; 2nd class prizes: Maitai Rogers, Koi Rogers, Mabel Percival, Huia Bamfora. ■ , ' 3rd Class Girls.— lst class prizes: Joyce Kempthorne, Gladys Cooper; 2nd class prizes : Katie King, Dons Sadd. 4th Class Girls.— lst class prizes: Ruby Stillman, Doris Hogg ; 2nd class prizes: Eileen Cresswell, Mary Barton, Dora Senn. sth Class Girls.— lst class prize: Millicent Kempthorne ; 2nd class pme Millie Barton. ' Infant Class.— Nellie Horncastle, Frank Guinness, Bertha Ross, Robin Smith, Marjorie Smith, Dons Lockyer.

WOOD SUNDAY SCHOOL. Ist Class Girls.— Edith Dayman, Connie Dayman, Clarice Newport, Ethel Estcourt. 2nd Class Boys : Edgar Adair, Willie Biick, Jack Adair. ' - 2nd Class Girls: Gertrude Biick, Ivy Estcourt. . ■ Special prizes were given to the iollowing: Edith Dayman, Eileen Harris Ethel Estcourt, Meloe Eggleton, Coral Adair, Olive Lessels. Miss Batchelor then addressed tne children. She appeared dressed as a Chinese lady of the middle class, but without Chinese shoes, which it was quite as well not to attempt to put on These tiny shoes were held up for the children to see. The children wiere told how the little girls' feet were bound up and crushed to i keep them from growing. The , Chinese Government have now passed a law to prevent it. Miss Batchelor then told a story of a visit to the village of "The Hall of the Nine Dragons," and how a little boy in. a tattered blue dreas used to run after her Bible wor man and ask her to teach him a few words from the book. A most thrilling and interesting story was told of this liMe boy and his. sister, who had been sold into slavery by their own mother and cruelly treated. How the children of the missionary orphanage prayed constantly that the little ones might be. delivered from slavery and misery and brought to them. This at last came about and both the boy and girl beoame Christians. The boy took as his christian name when baptised "Obtain Peace," the girl "Obtain Rest," a younger sister. "Obtain Love." Several other incidents of Chinese child life were told, and at the end Miss Batchelor begged the children to sometimes think of and pray for the Chinese children, who numbered about one third of the children of the world. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded Miss Batchelor at the close.