CHINESE LAD.
DUX OF SCHOOL. REMARKABLE PROGRESS. BEST ATHLETE ALSO. Prank Chew Lee, aged Ti years, a C'hristchureTi-born Chinese lad, is dux of the Lyltoiton District High School for 1937. Three years and a half ago Prank and his* mother, who now keeps a. fruit shop in Lyttelton, returned to New Zealand from "China. As he did not know English, Prank was sent to school to learn the language by means of mixing with the other children. As he could not understand the teachers, one of the class boys was told off to teach him. Signs and pictures were helpful in making the Chinese lad understand, but patience const it uFci! the most important part of the tuition. The headmaster, Mr. A. F. Barrel), declares that the boy's ambition and the help of his classmates were the main-factors in his rapid advancement. Prank started in Primer 1, but within a year he passed into Standard IV. Last year he still found difiicurfy in expressing his thoughts in English in his examination, but he had no difficulty this year. Ho also won the Herbert Smith Cup for the best athlete in the school under 15 years of age.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20197, 23 December 1937, Page 3
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