OAMARU NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 52, 31 December 1924, Page 39

OAMARU NOTES

(Prom our own Correspondent.) December 18. Prize distributions and school break-ups are the order of the day. The local Catholic schools held theirs during the week, and the ceremonies connected with them passed off very pleasantly. No doubt in due course the lists will go to swell the volume that will descend on the Tablet office during the next week or so. A scholarship at St. Patrick's College valued at £66 per annum and tenable for three years, was won won by Rupert CuddonLarge, a lad at St. Thomas's Acadmy. He is not yet thirteen years of age and the scholarship .is open to those up to fourteen.. Among the pupils of the various North Otago schools securing proficiency and competency certificates occurs the name of Henry Rowe, of St. Joseph's School, Oamaru, he having secured one of competency. The town is sprucing itself up in view of the usual influx of visitors from other centres. The gardens, under its new head from Dunedin Gardens, is looking charming. The borough staff is busy making the rough ways plain by filling up pot holes in the roads and treating them to a sprinkling of sand and tar, for motor traffic on our streets is now very large. The erection of the War Memorial is now well advanced, and to all appearances will add an additional feature to a street which visiting people give rank as one of the finest thoroughfares in the Dominion. Most of St. Thomas's Academy boarders have dispersed to their various homes. So the Sisters will have a quiet time for the next next few weeks. But despite the academithe Sisters will have a' quiet time for the cians' boyish pranks and the shouts of the young voices while they are at play, we will welcome their return. Miss Tui Hutton, a pupi of the ocal convent, secured her L.A.B. (eTachers' Certificate) as a result of the recent examination under the Associated Board of the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music. The girls' social club met on Monday evening and decided on a picnic at one of the popular holiday resorts called Waianakarua. The outing is to take place on the 20th, of which more anon. While a few montlis ago the absence of rain presaged a lean year, now the countryside is covered with healthy crops, and grass be that there are not enough cattle to eat it.