A WELL EARNED PRIZE
The Hobart Town Mercury writes : Two thousand ilireo hundred nnd ton- lyilca fori a small prize, and that by a glrl,stoo. Tins is what our Spring Bay correspondent relates. He states that the annual distribution of prizes at the Triabunna public school, the special prize for regular attend? anco was given to bliss Box, who had during the year walked 2,319 miles to obtain it ;nhe has actually walked twelve miles a day to and from school i f the prize was not a valuable ens, it ought to be, and we quite agree with our correspondent when bo doubts if there is another district in the colony which could boast of a similar feat having been performed. It should be noticed, ton, that be states there are many children win travel as far. Cm we wonder at the fluctuations in the average attendance at country schools after that? Our readers, Aye are sure, w ill he artily coti"f ur with u 3, -that Miss Fox aud her school mates who trudge to..maty mi’es ilese.we all the,eneflurageomnt they get in the effort to be educated ; and if some of the 1 ays don’t turn out good coloni:ta, and the girls grd wives, we arc much mistaken.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 633, 5 June 1874, Page 3
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