WHAT WE OWE OUR SAILORS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 7

WHAT WE OWE OUR SAILORS

ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS. Each year the and Foreign Sailors' Society offers handsome copper plaques to the children of New Zealand schools for the best essays on a given topic. r The Minister of Education for the Domiuion arranges the competition and prescribes the rules. The subject for 1915 ivas,_ "To show in, the great War of 1914-15 what the British Empire owes to its sailors, both lloyal and Mercantile." Four plaques were ofFered, ind are now awarded to a hoy and a The adjudicators have just finished the pleasant task of reading through hearly 80 essays, and have made tho lollowing awards:—North Island hoy: Arnold Taylor, Whangapara School, Great Barrier Island. North Island girl: Hutli Ellen SpeiglA, Pctane School, Hawke's Bay. South Island hoy: _Harold Woolf, West Christchurch District High School. South Island girl: Hilda Florence Mary Valentine, Girls' . High School, Timani.. In addition to these awards, the following are highly commended for their essays:— John Nightingale; Dalefield School, Wellington; Alexander Robert Skillen, Mangamingi School; Edward Holton, Onehunga Convent; Henry Lorimer Richardson. District High School, Feilding; Doris Blyth, District High School, Temuka; Louise St. John, Girls' High School, Timaru; Cyril O. HnmiltonIrvine, Convent , School, - Onehunga, North Island; Frank Frost, Oniata School, Taranaki, North Island; and Helen Maisie Bruce. Queen's Park, Wanganui, North Island. All the essays revealed a very high standard of. intelligence. Tlio subject for next year's competition is: "Draw a map of tho World (with an .essay of 300 words) and anticipate the changes that will bo made by Britain and her Allies in cor.stauence of their heing victorious." .•