SACRED HEART SCHOOL, ASHBURTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6731, 20 December 1889, Page 4

SACRED HEART SCHOOL, ASHBURTON.

The annual distribution of prizes took place at the Sacred Heart Convent Select School, Ashbnrton, yesterday. The-echool is one for girls only, and is taught by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. The girls, all in white dresses, the -classes they belonged to being distinguished by coloured sashes, were ranged on a galleried part of the large schoolroom, and their excellent training was shown in the programme of sixteen, pieces of vocal and instrumental music and recitations they went through for the entertainment of the crowd of parents and friends who were present. After the little concert, Father Chastagnon , distributed prizes to the pupils who had gained -class honours, and having suitably addressed the children, the üßchooL..t>roke" ■up.for the,nsual holidays. [P»B PIUSfIB ABBOOU2ZON.} TIMAETT, JDhc. 19. " J!fo:fiA.J3.-G..3Jhodes, M.H.R. for Geral- ; ■dfne, diatribnted the prizes at the' Timaru. High. School this afternoon. In the course of his address he advocated teaching, modern languages and science in preference to classics, as the field of employment here is not in the learned professions, but in. the utilisation of the forces of Nature in aiding material' prosperity. Therefore a.knowledge of engineering, for instance, is-ofjnore utility than, of, .Latin. .and^Gxeek.