YOUTHFUL ESSAYISTS.
The 'results of the British and -Foreign Sailors'_ school. essay competition on Captain,. James Cook, >his voyages and discoveries, and their value to the nation,. conimorce, and Christianity," are announced. The successful candidates are:— _ _' North Island: Patrick' Neville, District High School,, Onehunga, and Alice K. Wilson, Girls' Grammar. School, Auckland. ■ ; South Island:': Douglas :W. M'Clurg, Waitaki Boys' High School, and-Johanna M.'Brosnan, District High School, Lawrence. There were 78 candidates, more than the total ontry for Australia.' The four prizes aro' prepared from copper taken from the battleship Victory. The adjudicators state that the New South Wales essays were the best arid the i'South Island essays second in order of- merit. -; : ' ■ .■■. : : :,.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 684, 8 December 1909, Page 3
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112YOUTHFUL ESSAYISTS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 684, 8 December 1909, Page 3
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