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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4593, 15 March 1893, Page 2

express all that language need say. Presentations.:— A pleasant ceremony took place yesterday afternoon, in the West ChrißtchurcU bathß, when the girls attending Mr W. Garrard's swimming class presented him with the following address and a purse containing a small sum of money :—" Dear Mr Garrard,— We, your pupils, wißh to express, before parting for the season, our gratitude to you for the useful accomplishment you have taught us, and for the pleasant honra we have spent in swimming practice. We beg you to accept the accompanying little gift as a token of our feeling, though it is very insufficient to, express our sense of your untiring kindness in our behalf.— Tour grateful pupils." (Here followed fifty -eight signatures.) Mr Garrard expressed Hb surprise* and thanked them all for their kindness. He assured them that they had given him every satisfaction by their perseverance and attention. He was afraid that onehalf of the lessons they were taught in school would be forgotten when they left it; but should they not go near the water for twenty years, and an. accident occur, the knowledge he had imparted to them might be the means of saving a valuable life. He had to thank Mrs Foster for her great assistance to him in making the class so successful. Ms Garrard has during the season given bi-weekly lessons in swimming to the girls in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh standards without making. any charge, and the pupils subscribed amongst themselves for the presentation. —On Friday afternoon the teachers and pupik of the Addington ichool presented Misa Campbell, late issiatant mistress, with a bound book and & hand-bag rb tokens of their esteem.