SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2259, 19 September 1914, Page 3

SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION

♦ THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES. His Excellency tho Governor (the Earl of Liverpool) and Her Excellency tho Countess of Liverpool visited St. John's Hall last evening to present tho prizes won at the Wellington Sunday School Union's examinations. Tho building was crowded with scholars and their friende. The Hon. J. G. W. Aitkcn, M.L.C., presided, and in his address stated that the union represented all the churches in Wellington except' tho Church of England »nd the Roman Catholic Church. Some 508 candidates had fiat for tho recent examinations and of this number 303 had won prizes, gaining vory high marks, 262 had won certificates, and 63 had failed. Tho suburban classes had (lie was informed) shown better results than the city classes, and pupils of tho Ivgahauranga Methodist School had done exceptionally well, Mies Evelyn M'Vicar, from t?mt school, gaining 100 per cent. Everything, howover, did not depend on tho examinations or tho priz-es. Tho schools'had been instituted for i/ho purpose of imparting to iho children that knowledge, which it was considered was necessary for thom, and the examinations wore merely a test of whether or ,not. they wera ■ acquiring that knowldge. Their Exeejloncies subsequentlv mado the presentation of the prizes, while the certificates wore handed over by Hiss Helyor and Mr. Alexander Johnston, vice-president. During the ovening Miss Evelyn M'Vicar presented her Excellency with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Recitations were contributed by Misses Marit rio Bennie and Edie Wiren, and hymns wore sung at intervals.