MOTUROA SCHOOL BREAK-UP

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1933, Page 13

MOTUROA SCHOOL BREAK-UP

GOOD YEAR EXPERIENCED. \ CEREMONY OF PRIZE-GIVING. "We have had an exceptionally good year at the school,” said Mr. ,W. RAdams, headmaster, when speaking at the breaking-up ceremony at the Moturoa school yesterday morning. The Mayor (Mr. E. R. C. Gilmour) was present and presented the prizes, swimming, attendance and proficiency certificates to success! ul pupils. Continuing, Mr. Adams said the success throughout the school was wholly due to the teachers, who were the finest he had ever had. The credit for the success of the upper class usually went to him, but it was undeserved, for the work done in the lower classes’was directly responsible. He paid a tribute to the work done by Mr. A. Jenkin, the first assistant, who ■was leaving.. "Mr. Jenkint I hope,” said Mr. Adams, “is not going on the unemployed list We are very grateful for the work he has done, and we are very sorry to lose him. He has been,a great help both in school and in sport.” Mr. Gilmour, in endorsing Mr. Adams' remarks, said one always got the truth from children, and as far as Mr. Jenkin was concerned, the scholars all deeply regretted losing him. He presented Mr. Jenkin with a gift from the teachers and children. Mr. Jenkin briefly replied. Toys hanging on a. Christmas tree were given out to the primer and standard 1 classes, Misses Evans and Edgecombe acting, in the absence of Father Christmas, in his place. The standard I class sang “Christmas is Coming,” and the school “The First Nowe'l,” botn items . being well sung. William Chapman, dux of the school, was specially presented with a gift of 5s from the Mayor and was loudly applauded for the good work he had done during the year. An item of great interest was the presentation of 2s 6d to Edna Williamson as second prize in a doll-dressing competition conducted at New Plymouth by the junior branch of the Red Cross Society. A letter was read out from Sister Corkill in which she stated that the Moturoa school had contributed more toys to the Christmas cheer for poor children fund than any other school in the town. The school, and Miss Edgecombe, who has charge of the junior Red Cross at the school, were complimented by the Mayor, who said it was a remarkable effort for such a comparatively small number of pupils. Good attendance certificates for pupus not missing more than five half-days in the year were awarded as follows:— Standard 6: Noel Gilbanks, Jean Fisher, Roy Bullot, William Chapman, John Lynch, Lloyd McDowell. > Standard 5: Gordon Hobbs, Alfred Hunt, William Collins, David Lynch, Victor McKain, Rona Martin, Dagrnar Holmes, Sylvia Bensley, Joe George. Standard 4: Bertie Inteman, Geof. Fisher, Harold Kendall, Frank Grange, Lloyd McKain, Beth Sander. Agnes Ramsdale, Marjorie Chong, Heather Fistfer, Owen Edgecombe, Ivy Hollis. Standard 3: Ethel Frewin, Marjorie Hobbs, Jean Loveridge, Ivy Inteman, Charlie Bremner, Billy Edwards, Rex George, Teddy Manning, Norman Quinlan, Irving Thompson, Tommy Sanders. Standard 2: Sid McKain, Fay Arden, Pat Bullot, Nita Jury, Molly Kendall, Audrey Quinlan. Standard 1: Jim Honeyfield. Ngaire George, Joan Carr, Nola Sander, Dotis Hobbs, Rex Hunter, Isaac Jenkins, Rex Austin, Joyce Collings. Primers: Olive Inteman, Don Millman, Charlie Healey, Jack Gartner, Leslie McKain.