SCHOOL ESSAYS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 15

SCHOOL ESSAYS.

NEWTOWN LIBRARY COMPETITION.' . •,/Soide tinae ag6'ari':anntfal''essay for tlio children attending the sity-,aud suburb ban schools ;wa3. instituted by tho , Neivtown' Public .Library. ' ThoVaUthors of;, the best essays in each year aro presented .with free cards of membership iu tho juvenile department'at ■ tho-library; This :.y, ear's competition has.,ex- , cited very keen t interest, and ■ the. essays sekt in represent a very creditable standard of merit. Tho subject this year , was:: "Tho Petborick Musium," and tho adjudicators havo' now announced " the results. . The following scholars, whose..essays were judged to bo : tho best submitted, will be pkced on th(* subscribers'; list for one year:— •, Dcrhamporo—Lizzio Bullen, Oreta Hayes, Malcolm Johnson,- Stella Robbins, • and Ernest . Smith. 'V ' . v' '• : Brooklyn , School—Amy.Hudson,.. Howard • 1 Kebble,'-K.--Macdonald, IC.' . Kimpsori, Lizzio , ■ Makeham. : ■ / ■'.■ .. ' lulbirnio School—Elsie Corrick, Ida Drawbridge,; A- M'Lcnnan, ,Graco Melvin, and. Hi'.Taylor;,';/:/.-'--' . '/.Newtow'hi : Stevens, Louisa Anderson, Frink: Luke,' Alan .'.Hornblow, Mairs Castje, and'-Huia Craighead. . The- best -essay was that written by Alan Hornblow, of the Newtown District High School, who wrote: /:■ , ' "Ono of th 6 most interesting attractions. in South Wellington js- the Tetherick': Museum'.: Tho ■ City. Council, hois recently enlarged thd Newtown; Public' Library,'situated in Revans Street, : opposite tho • Wellington Hospital; Upon entoring/:thp' : i building, the ; first thing of interest, that strikes the visitors in . ascend- :. ing/the' stajrcasS,.' is. ai. splendidly-designed tab- : lot, suitably inscribed to . commemorate ; Mr. . Petherlck-B, handsome and valuable gift to the . .'people of ; Wellington.; . Since the additions have been made to. the library,'the'whole: of the/upstair' portion of tho building has been •> .fitted up . for . the museum.: The. various ;.coli Sections of animals; birds, fishes," insects, Tep- 1 . jtiles,; etc.; are, most interesting, and well ar- . 'ranged. / The. gorgeous and varied .colours of (the'birds'and insects, the magnificent; display. ,i :of beautiful coral: and lovely shislls, would bo hard to beat in any other mu'soum. , The life* / .like appearance' of the many animah in the i .'various,; glass*, cftses, ;particularly the larger . ' animals, the lion; leopard, ibear, tiger,/ ' arid -'others, are a great study in 1 natural history; Then there, are collections of i. .minerals, eggs of every kind, and hundreds of [ other .things thai; go to make up a, very inters esting- museum. Thero are valuable colleo- [ : tiohs of ' old' coins, Maori curios, ; and many 1 'other old relics'of tho past. Tho collection is t constantly. being added to, and the museum, is now,'considered ono of the city's main at- , ! tractions. • ! - visit to the ,'Petherick' Museum j , should niit .be missed."