SCHOOL ESSAYS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 576, 3 August 1909, Page 6

SCHOOL ESSAYS.

['■■ Mr..T3L,Wilford,M.P;; asks .testateji 'that on his. return from Auckland'last eveii-j report.pf;the.examiiierj lin t'be.'adjudicatioh of the prize, essay com-j: ■' petition .which- was instituted byvhim' at; the; Lower Hutt District High School some time; ago. Mr. Wilford'states that being, unable) ■to get Sir William Steward "to adjudicate, ji owing : to the hitter's'absence in the south,;' Sir. -W.T HJ'Atack,'of ■ the kindly, consented to look through the essays.; 'In Ins 'report-Mr.-'Atack specialty .■■compli-l : ments' the candidates, on the, patience''and industry' shown 1 by., them'in' compiling'the' data for their Progress of the Hutt Valley." The knowledge ~ shown by; the-scholars of their ..own district was con- . sidered\ very:, creditablo' indeed. 1 The .results : are as follow (as eaih candidate wrote' under an examination letter' or,nuhiber,;:the riamep cannot be given) -■•;• -..•' v ■.■;.-.:''■',: ;:'.:u [ ■ Standard V prize,-,Wumber-, 5":; second,- "Number.. I.',' .'. Standard ; Vl.—First prize, "Letter S" ;•second. "Letter L." Secondary ■Departmertt— First prize'v "Nwnber--9";: second, I'Numbor 21."' In Standard"V-,; special^mentibri is also given to 'numbers. "9" and .VIQ-'j letter "S". in .Standard VI was considered easily,'the best of the whole lot;, numbers '"5," "8," and,; "12". are also commended' .among the candidates from the : secondary department. ,-Th'e results, will.-be ifbrwarded ( to tholieadmaster'of the' Lower Hu^tt.District High School. ,'.'.,,•.,".,>', : F. M i/iV'.' ■'.-■.'■'.. .'.. ■ ... ,j~ •■-■•■■■-■■ i "'Colonel Aylmer Spicer Cameron, N V.C, who died'"recently, aftor: a long illness, ■' was'the son-of : Colonel'William Gorden Cameron, of the "Grenadier '-Guards, a Peninsula- an(l Waterloo'veteran, and tho grandson of: Geno"ral William Neville Cameron;--who was; present at the taking of Gwalior in 1780. Ho had four brothers in-the Army and Navy, one of whom.'is General' Sir William.Gordon Cameron. Of his five sons four hold or have held ■commissions in the "services.■:■"' Colonel Cameron was born in 1833,' and at the age of'twenty'received his first commission in -tho 72nd Highlanders.' DuiinH the -Indian-Mutiny. 1 campaign ;in .1857-8 -he was twico .wounded during the:'siege aiid storming of Kotai; Jos-, ipg' ih'biie 'desperate"action" half of'his left hand;'' ! K "was for his -''gallantry"- and daring on this occasion when leading a" forlorn hooo" that be re'o'eived'-the Viotona Cross.