MURITAI SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 111, 4 February 1920, Page 3

MURITAI SCHOOL

; — * ;.' The school year of 1919 at Muritai School'was closed on December, 15 by a very prettily-arranged and well-acted cperettu, staged.by the senior children, under tho direction of Miss'-V. Roiighton. Alter the performance the chairman (Mr. H. G. -Mayer) thanked Mr. Sanson and his staff for the successful results of the yearns work, and instanced the.fact that eleven proficiency and two competency certificates had been gained by tho thirteen scholars in Standard VI. Ho mentioned that tho dux of Wellington Boys' College for the year was an old pupil and recent dux of Muritai School and the son of a former chairman (Mr. E. G. F. Zohrab). He announced that Mr. Mather, Mayor of Eastbourne, had promised tiro scholarships of ,£5 ror year each for two years .to the girl and. boy at tho head of the school to help defray their expenses at tho secondary school, and these" were won by Ngarita Partridge and Edward Wright respectively. On behalf of the committee he eulogised the work done for tho school by Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Partridge, who aro leaving to reside in Christeliurch, and ' presented them with a silver not-watcr jug, amidst tho enthusiastic applause of the parents and children present. Tho prizes wero then presented as follow-.— Dux—Ngarita I'artridgo and Edward Wright. ~a . .. .. Standard Vl—Mnrjorio Steifavt, Ernest Tilbury, Isabel'Dabinelt, Frank Newsoii. Standard V—Jean -'Wright, Dorothy M'Dowall, Ralph Poole, Lnrna- Dodd, Edna Ross, Edward Reynolds. Standard lWCarol Evans, Markham M'MUlan, Harry Skinner, Jack partridge, Margaret Black, Mollie Gillespi?. Standard lll—Wayne Richards, Francis Mather, Alan Stevenson, Charles Garrood, Noni Smith, Theo Gnndorsen. Standard ll—Dorothy M'Coll, Gertrude Tidman, Kie Mnv.zoia, Dulcio Ormc, Esrno Nicol, Katherine Russo. Standard I—Nancy Green, Rowland Lawes, Mary Meo, Colin Nnismith, Joan Jenkinson, Edith Evans, Primer classes—Violet Rom, Thelma JTitdson, Betty Peters, Archer Lambeth, Vivian Cooper, Mavis Cullen, Peggy Baker, Mona. Fisher.