NELSON BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15214, 30 October 1919, Page 7

NELSON BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.

«, It At the Nelson School of Music Jast j evening the celebrations in connection with the Baptist Sunday School were ■ j continued. The hall was again fuJl.! ( The Rev. John Laird opened the meet-jj ing with prayer. The superintendent (Mr Thomas Pettit) presided overt' the gathering. ] In his opening address he referred to tiie , happy circumstances under which they. < met,'as compared with' the past live ( anniversaries, when they were under thej1 cloud of war. He trusted all would en- } ter upon the new year with greater en- - tlmsiasm and zeal than before the war. , The annual report was presented by i, Miss Thomson (secretary). The nuniber of scholars on the roll was as fol- ] lows:—Boys 99, girls 140; total, 239. ; Teachers : Nine ladies,, seven gentlemen. Four prizes and nine certificates were j gained in the Sunday School Scripture examination; and two prizes and nine ( certificates in the Baptist Union oxa-{ mination. The-Senior Young Women's, Bible Class, under Miss Baigent, has a' ( membership of 14.. The Young Men's i, Bible Class has heen re-opened, under; the leadership of Mr Cullen. The infant, department, conducted by Mr and Mrs; H. Wood, is a special feature of the', school work. One scholar was removed • by death (Esther Robertson). Forty ■ young men who had passed through the I school enlisted and saw active service.! ] Five made the supreme sacrifice.- The school contributed the sum of £35 Us towards foreign mission /work. The report concluded with thanks to those ; who had assisted to make tae anniver- ' sary services a success, special mention '. being made of Mr A. E. Wood (eon- - ductor) and Mr John Tait (organist). A varied programme of musical and ■ i elocutionary items was rendered by thej .scholars. ■ IPRIZB LIST. . !; Mrs Laird presented .the prices, the ' list being as follows:—'..■ ' ■' ! Girts£;; •■; - • ■ - ' \ Junior Bible Class: Ida'Holbrook and Marjorie Penny equal 1, Margaret Black 2. Class I.: Jessie Greenem 1. Myrtle Mills 2. Class II.: Netta Ching 1, Doris Miller and Flossie Greenem equal 2. Class 111. : Dorothy Holbrook, Bessie Robertson, Ivy Hicketts, Elsie Kinzett, and Kitty Greenem equal 1. I Intermediate: Nellie Miller 1, Phyllis I Wood and Rona Barnett equal 2. j Infants- Eva' Cotton 1, Joyce Wood 2, Marie Boyce 3. Special prizes tor < Scripture knowledge: Joyce Wood, Wai- < tor Burns. j Attendance: Ida Holbrook, Marjorie ; Penny, Netta Clung , Jessie 'Greenem, , Elsie Kinzctt, Doris Miller, Kitty \ Greenem, Ivy Eicketts, Bessie Robert- ; son, Doris H'ol'brook, Nellie Miller, Eva , Cotton, Ronald Wood, Kenneth Hockey, < Richard Rawson, Leslie Chapman, Roy } Chapman, Fred Gardner, Stanley Day, j Noel Chapman, Clifford Day, 'James , Robertson. ] Boys. ( JiTnior Bible Class: James Robertson'1 L Oswald Pre"bble 2. special, Cecil Hammond. • Class I.: Clarence Kinzett 1, Edwin Blackmoro 2. Class II.: Ronald Wood 1, Lawrence Hislop 2. Teacher's special, Harold Karscen. Class ill.: Kenneth Hockey 1, Richard Rawson 2. Intermediate: Fred Gardner, Stanley Day. and Noel Chapman equal 1, Stanley* Cuilen and Jim Lucre equal 2. ( 'infants: Clifford Day 1, Eric,Jennens : 2. Wellington Union Examination : Prizewinners, Margaret ..Black 87, Netta. Ching 91, Trixie Glover 81, Doris Mil-, ler 77. Certificates, Molly Goodacre, : Elsie Kin/ett, Ivy Ricketts, Myrtle : Mills, Frances Robertson. Baptist Union Examination: Prize- * •winners, Margaret; Black 91 : Netta i Chhi'v 9o; certificates, Doris Miller, . Trixi'o Glover, Elsie Kinzott, Frances i Robertson. iMyrtle Mills, Ivy Ricketts, ■" and IVlolly Goodacre. Bible Searching: Grade 1., Doris Mil- J ler 1 (prize presented by Mr Wood), < Netta Ching 2 (prize presented by Mr J Edmonds); Grade 11., Elsie Kinzett 1 (prize presented by Miss M. Wilson), Bessie Robertso'n l 2 (prize presented by Mrs R. Black). Repetition of Scripture: Roy Hislop (prize presented tty. his teacher). Ago-re^ate marks: Netta Ching 1 j (prize presented by Mr Pettit), Margaret; Black 2 (prize presented by Rev. J. < Laird), Doris Miller 3 (prize presented, by Mr Bliek). | ■ | By general request the services will be repeated on Sunday evening next.