WELLINGTON NAVY LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 62, 6 December 1919, Page 9

WELLINGTON NAVY LEAGUE

I'ALMKK PIMZE ESSAY COMPETITION. The results of the. Palmer prize essav competition conduced by. tho Wellington hianah of the Navy League are announced M follow:—

Senior buys, up to 18 years, ■ subject "Sea Pouxv in the Great War."—Albert Edward King, Waitaki Boys' Hi»Ji School.

Senior girls, n ;) ( n 18 years, subject "Se.i Power in the Great War."—Jljivis j;'nle:iner. Sacred Heart Girls' High Ss.hrjoi. Christchurch.

Junior boys, up to 14 years, primary -chords onlv, subject "liattle of Jutland." -Dune.-in.M'GreKu-.', Maori Hill School, I)un."di:i.

Junior jrit-ls, up to 14 years, primary i'.clino!s onlv. subjeot "flatlle of Jutland." -Uorccn AVil!.;, Ilichmoiid School, Nelson.

Die time' consist of onli to the amount of .£'i! in the seniors and £2 in thi. limioi-s ■;

Tvic-li of the four prue-winrer.s reeeivea also a copy -if Tovd Jellicoe's hook, "With lb" Grand Fleet."

The I'xiiii'nei's were Colonel Campbell, Afessrs. -T. Shuilor AVeston, A. V,. Atkinson and Barry Kresin?, ano thev speakin the hijhvst terms nf the knowledse of naval matters and literary ahiltiv disby the es-.ivtsts. Mr. T. Shailer Wesfon, in sn»nkin.-: of the iunior essmvs savs- "The bi-rb standard of.many nf the elTorts "omev.-hnt surprised me. -ind was anfy'lnrjiiont tf-'timo"v nf the e\-eeli"nee of the S-nininc in Endi'sh in jiiv nrMiiary' schools. Any examiner nouhl. f ih'nk. he ennvine«\ of the rood work don 3 In- the N:"-y in o'ffe--'i:r t!io-f iirijic-i, Ti|«y must tend to (•"ccin-iiw the "rpwlli of true nalriotism amoiKT-l: the 'selvil-rs. I shall be very "'eased in rerowii.«imr this to iri-v a ';ninen as » second prze for the hoes' inninv division for next year's compcti-

AM of Hie secondary schools of NW /'•ea | and enmneted and n Invtro number nf the nrinia-v schools, 250 essays in all b»in'„' .received.

Ij I All fashions return, save crinolines for j women and doublet and hose fur men, | and it begins to luok as though we were q .about to assi,t at a return of tho "damn" II lashioii. That exceedingly "breezy" iea--8 ! dog, Lord Fisher, npiiarently intends to j; sow his antobiograpny with "damns" as J he might sow a shoaly channel with | buoys. It must be admitted that he B employs them in quite a kindly way. I When ho uses the word ho means only 9 to express contempt for sumebody, and j to brush him out of his path.—"The a Guardian."