LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17115, 9 April 1921, Page 14

LYTTELTON NEWS.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday before Messrs W. T. Lester and W. C. Cleary, J.P.'s, Martin Samuel, for using obscene language was fined £5, . in default one month's imprisonment. On a charge oi drunkenness he wan fined Ss and coats. 4t a sitting held last evening, before Messrs F. G. Norton and" F. Knights, J.P.'s, William Polglese, who pleaded guilty to using obscene language, was fined £5. Thomas Porter, who pleaded guilty to a similar charge, was fined £3. Both are seamen off tie Waimate, and a special sitting of i the Court was held at 7.15 to enable the. men to be placed on board. ST. JOHN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. A jumble sale, in aid oi tho funds of St. John's Presbyterian Church, was held in the sahoolxoom yesterday. A large and varied collection of goods was offered for tale, and the sum of £4O was realised, of which over £6 was taken by the afternoon tea-room. SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE. Fifty-fivo men were entertained on Thursday night at the weekly concert and social. Tho local Ladies' Guild were well represented, and provided supper at the close. The following gave items:—-Mrs Porter, Misses Owens, Clark, and Pitcaithly. Miss Hatchwell played the accompaniment*. LYTTELTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL. At the meeting of the Lyttclton District High School Committee, Mr W. G. Carson presided. The annual balance-sheet was received and adopted. The secretary reported that tho sum of £lsl 14s Gd had been received from the committee.oi ladies in .charge of tho recent fair, and £99 had been received from the' Rev. F. L. Frost and Mr E. R. Curtis, the result of their collections in Lyttclton. These amounts had been deposited in the Savings Bank, to be used later for tho heating system. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the- Ladies' Committee, through Mrs W. T. Lester (president) also to the collectors, Messrs Frost and Curtis, and the school staff. It wa-s resolved to expend the sum of £oj in prizes out of the proceeds of the concerts. Dr. Uphani and Messrs W. G. Carton and W. T. Lester were appointed a deputation to wait on the Education Board in connexion with the heating system. The headmaster's report showed the number on the roll, to be 453 primary and 24 secondary. It was decided to commence the term holidays on April 29th. ■ PRIZE DISTRIBUTION. Tho annual distribution of prizes for the year 1920 took placo in the school grounds yesterday. The prizes were given out by tho chairman of the. School Committee, Mr W. G. Carson, and there was a good attend, •ance of parents. The dux medals (primary) were awarded- to Lorel Irwin and Wilfred Bradley. Before the chairman presented the medals .the headmaster, Mr J. W. A. Walker, drew attention to the fact that four different examiners had, during the year, placed the winners first on each occasion. They were the late headmaster, Mv Clarke, the actingheadmaster, Mr Warner, the Board's inspector, and tho speaker. .He wished also to' commend to their notice . the splendid record of the girl dux, Lbrel Irwin, who, in addition, had won the first prizo for cookery, and was the champion girl athlete (swimming and running) of the school, proving that sho ,was not only a scholar, but capable of taking her place in the-kitchen or the playing field. At the* conclusion of the distribution the visitors were entertained to afternoon tea by Miss Handley and other lady teachers, when, Mr Walker took the opportunity of thanking the ladies for their splendid work in connexion with tho baaaar. Ho said that a deputation had waited on the Education Board with a request for a subsidy for the heating funU, and had been most favourably received, with result that the work would be put in hand "in the course of a few weeks. Following i» the prize list :• PRIMARY DEPARTMENT. P. 4—lrene Bay 1, Nettie Wallace 2; lan Wilson 1, Neville Goodmanson.2, P. 3—Kathleen Carson l; Flora McDonald 2; Willie Willman 1, Charles St.. John 2. P. 2—Phyllis Newfield, Irene Wells, and Eileen Donahy (equal) 1; Hugh McMillan 1, Jack Crocker 2. P. I—lron© Wright; 1, Myrtle Sadler. 2; lan rjromgoole 1, Jack Hurley 2. Standard 1 I—Girls, Jean Hunter 1, .Nora j Carson 2, Elßie Hillier 3; boys, Leslie Brown 1, Ivan Newton 2; Jack' Hardwicke 3. Specials—Sowing, K. Davis 1, Ti Robertson 2; attendance; Violet Hunter; conduct, Lily Burbery;' drawing, Doris Beaumont and Keith Beaumont; nature, study, Jim Reiwie; improvement, Charlie Kay; neatness; Hugh ■■'•■ ■ - ■•••■■■, Standard 2—Girls, Jean Henderson 1, Eve-' lyn Gillard 2, Vera. Jeffery .3; boys, Ronald Burbery. 1, Fred. Forman and' Percy McCor- , mick (equal) 2, Jasper Bradley 3; recitation,' Leila Scott; drawing, Jim Wallace; sewing, Freda Foster; reading,' George Torrens. andOlive. Heeeo: diligence, Leo Dromgoole; improvement, Louis McCarthy; neatness, Hu- ' hert Norris.. . Standard 3—Girls, Mavis Marsden l,.Kathleen Robertson 2; boys, Keith Gower 1, Keith Jones .2; diligence,' Clinton Duft and Alexander Davies; improvement, Ellen. Griffith;' conduct, Drummond Livingstone andEileen Willman; reading and recitation, Frank Dromgoole; handwork, Llewellyn Williams; .drawing, Douglas iseaumont; neatness and homework, Robert. Taylor; sewing, Molly Mills; improvement in sewing' Jessie McMillan; attendance, James Brafflell. Standard -4 Girls, Edna) Ayers 1, Hazel Aufltad 2, Eva Huston'3; boys, • Jim Bundy 1, Percy Nicholl 2, Tom, Hobba 3;' improvement, Ivy Day; diligence (Mr Carson'a prize), Vida. Fenton;; conduct and improvement, Ntorah Thomas; homework, Percy Dale; conduct and homework,' William Peebles; composition,' Doris Swaby; drawing and diligence; Victor Dromgoole; sewing, Avis Paxt6n; sewing (improvement), Annie McNaughton. Standard 6—Girls,. Mavis Taylor 1, Jean. Stirling! 2, Helen Burbery 3.; boys, Ernest Huston .1, Douglas Wallace , 2, .Leonard Gower 3; sewing, Clarice Loader; cookery, Mary Scott; . diligence (Mr Carson's-prize), Marma Duff; neatness, Iris Beaumont; conduct, Yvonne Livingstone; woodwork, Eliot Sinclair; diligence, Haife Baxter; conduct, Bertram Dovey. Standard Lorel Irwin (dux), 1, Gladys Austad 2, Felicia Newfield 3, Dorothy Evans 4; . cookery, Lorel Irwin; neatness, Evelyn MoCormick; conduct, Clara Willman; diligence, Valmai'Livingstone; sewing, Gwen Daivies; drill, Mavis Taylor X, Clara Willman 2; boys, Wilfred Bradley (dux) 1, Ernest Symonds 2, Ronald Davis 3,,.Herbert , Hewstone 4; woodwork, Gavin Beaumont; diligence, Albert Pippin. . SECONDARY DEPARTMENT. Fourth; year—George Pattison, first in French, arithmetic, mathematics, and geography;; Mary Hunter, first in English and liatin, second in arithmetic; Pearl Aicholl/ second in l'Tench, and JSnglish, third in geography and history. laird year—Allan Bain, second in geography, history, mathematics, and Latin. beoond year—Elsie Hunter, first in Etng-. lish, geometry, algebra, French, bookkeeping, and cookery; Sidney Gower, first in,aritnmetic, history, woodwork, second in English, geometry, algebra, and French; Claude Hill, second in bookkeeping and history; Gladys Scott diligence. First year—Hose Bennetts, first in arithmetic, geometry, algebra, history, second in French, bookkeeping, cooking, and English; Ellen Pattison, hfst. jb English, second algebra and history;' science prize, , Sidney Gower; winners of tennis tournament—boys, Allah Bain; girls, Dor* Curtis 1, Olive. Mcj Cormick 2. Lorol Irwin, the champion girl athlete, will have her name inscribed on the Hamilton shield. Gavin Benamont, the champion boy, athlete, will receive Mr Brown's medal, and will have his name inscribed on - tho District High School Shield. The runner-up for the boys' championship was Harry Robinson, and he received Mr 8. Ayer's prize of a silver watch. SEA SCOUTS' CAMP. The Easter camp of the Lyttelton Sea Scouts and the North Linwood Troop'of Boy Scouts wan-held at Buckley's Bay, Lyttelton, by kind permission of Lieut. Rage, R.N.Z.A., and Mr R. Loader, and lasted from March 24th to 28th. Mr G. Borman was officer in command of the oajnp, and in. all fourteen boys attended. On Sunday, the 27th, after bathing parade, the Sea and Boy Scouts were standing on a point opposite Ripa. Island when a motor launch was. sighted beating up against a heavy sea, and a south-west wind. She appeared to be in a bad state, aa some of the seas were shipped beam on, and sho was wallowing in tho sea as if half-full of water. Thinking that she might require assistance Mr Borman detailed a. Scout to return to camp and cycle to Lyttelton, and have a relief'boat sent out if necessary; the remaining Scouts kept watch. When abreast of them the launch broke down and started drifting-towards the Heads. The Scouts signalled to those on board to come into the bay. There w«e paddles on board, and vaith these and the assistance of the Scouts the launch was just able to make the jetty. A broken propeller' shait had caused the breakdown. The first thing next morning the boat was inspected, and was found in a damaged condition as the result of bumping against the jetty. She was pumped out and anchored- in such a manner that she could' .sot again jamb against the jetty. The "good turn for .the day" was done the same afternoon, when pome of the' Sea Scouts and Mr Borman rowed the launch .to Lyttelton and handed her over to her owner, who was just arranging for u boat to go and tow the launch back. The owner was greatly pleased, and wanted to reward the Scouts, but being Scouts they could: not accept anything. He

promised that if he ever had a chance of I doing a Rood turn for the Scouts he would do it On Sunday morning the Scouts extinguished a bush fire, which, though lighted ' on purpose, was, owing to the high wind i which sprang up, rapidly becoming dangerI OU9. ,