SCHOOL GARDENS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1042, 3 February 1911, Page 6

SCHOOL GARDENS.

' FEUDING DISTRICTS COMPETIv TIONS. Colyton, which won first honours last fear, lias again won the School Garden Competition conducted in connection with the 1-eliding A. and P. Association. Tho times are M, £2, £1. The judgesMessrs. F. Y. Lethbridgeand A.'lt. Mayo —in making their awards were guided by the following maximum points: Cultivation, 50 j order and system, i.e., neatness, thinning, weeding, etc., 40; labelling, must be executed by children conii poting, 20; vegetable and farm roots, 12 varieties at least, 45; tools, clcaulincss and care of, 15; diaries, three from each school, 30; aggregate, 200. The following are tho points scored:—Cotton, 181; Cheltenham, 171;- Foxton, 171; Taonui 1G8; Eata, 161; Halcombe, 101; Ohakea, 1C0; Ruabiiie, 157; Silverhope, 157; Spur Road, 155; Stanway, 1-18; Ranßiwahia; 143. Cheltenham and Foxton will divide Bccond and third prizes. Three special prizes of .£1 10s. and ss. irere offered for the best diaries kept in the competition, and they were won by Annio M'Kenzie, Ruahino School, 1 ; Dileen M'Cormick, Ruahine School, 2. Elsie Cuff, Halcombe School, 3.

The. special, prizes for. best display of (lowers growing in school gardens were tvon by the Colyton .School (,£¥), Foxton getting the second prize (.£1), and Silverhope school got third place.