SILVERSTREAM.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14481, 30 June 1911, Page 2

SILVERSTREAM.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The school having qeen closed the week before, requested by j the Board' of Education consequent on I the Coronation, the chairman, visited 1 the school on Monday afternoon, and after addressing to a full attendance a few appropriate remarks on the .great happenings during the festive week just past, commemorating ouch a notable and ffr-reachin'g, »u£ epoch* marking occurence as the c. owning of a nation's King, ■ tiie Sovereign of a loyd people, -i r t ovent ox'such far- ' reaching influence that even, the smallest. child in the school was not omit, ted- The chairman, explained that that child could return its gratefulness, by being loyal to all .' its trusts, and tasks. True loyalty, like charity," began at home, hence also in school, and so-on throughout a tru© loyalr minded person's' life, thereby uphold- | ing the prestige and honour embodi- : ed in the Briton, for whom "true Briton" si>elt Fair Play, Pluck and Horour, therefore when they received their Coronation Ynedals which they were to reoeive as a pro? sent from their King, though very indirectly, they must take very great care of them, sand let them be reminders that ,'tlfo better lives they Jived the truer subjects of their noble King and gracious Queen they would grow up. After the singing of the National Anthem each child received its medal as they filed out of tlie .school, and all were then indulged in a. lollie scramble, after which two well- ; grown oaks were planted !*v the chilren in the corner of their card'en. Tlie boys planted Qnercus Palunstrinus in honour of King George, and the girls #• Qiiercus Ferana as the, Queen's Oak,- these being two of the hnrdiest aa well as most ornamental of the oaks. Consquent on another fixture liar- ! ing been arranged for on tbo night previously decided upon and for which the Silverstream School Committee had already circulated tickets, the latter had perforce to alter the. Coronation Rail, which now -will be held on 7th. instead of 14th. as notified' in advertisement in another part of this issue advising persons who have already bought tickets to note the alteration in. date. %