TWENTY-FIVE YEARS A TEACHER PRESENTATION TO MR. A. HOSKING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 3, 15 July 1908, Page 26

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS A TEACHER PRESENTATION TO MR. A. HOSKING.

From left to right the ships are: I’lioebe, Fiverpool, Lilley, Endymion, Barrossa and Scylla.

BACK ROW (From Left to Right): Coakley. W. Maher. McCormack. Outtrim, Mahoney, Carmody. M. Maher, Lynch. SECOND ROW : J. I*. Kavanagh (Local Manager). Ryan M. Devoy (Captain). Very Rev. A. Keogh (Rectory. Stewart (Vice-Captain), Rochford. Carmody. FRONT ROW: Gallagher. Burke. Butler. Cullen. Baker, Doherty. The team has played and won three matches while on tour against Nelson College, St. John’s Collegiate School, and Auckland Grammar School, scoring 43 points against 6. Thirteen of the players are under seventeen. The team averages lOst ■J'bs in weight.

Hie pupils and teachers of the Mount |<den Public School, and a number of parents, and old pupils assembled at the school last week and made a presentation to the popular head-master. Mr. A. Hosking. to mark the completion of twenty-live years service, during which he has taught school at Penzance, London, Manchester. Exeter, Northampton, Melbourne, Adelaide, Pukekohe and Auckland. The presentation was made by Miss Doris (laze, the senior pupil of the school, who handed to Mr. Hoskin a handsome gold watch.