PRESENTATION AT WAIKOUAITE

Dunstan Times, Issue 1297, 7 January 1887, Page 3

PRESENTATION AT WAIKOUAITE

Many of the fiie ils of Miss D irion and her parents will read with pleasure the following, taken from the ‘Waikouaiti and Pa!m“istoii rimes’’:—

A number of the friendr of Miss Dirtno, School Mistress, met in oue of the schoolrooms on the 23 <1 December, and presents I her with a silver tea nnd coffee service on the occasion of lor mi,-nation nnd leaving the district. Mr S. Moore, Head Master, was in (In chair, and called upon Mr R. Campbell to mike the presentation. Mr Campbell cams forward an I sai l: Miss D.rton, a few friends having with regret h-ird erf your intended depaitore from eur midst, resolved that you shotil I tako with you some token of ost e.m in which von nre held by the residents of Waikouaiti; they have therefore deput'd mo to pre-cut you with tliis silver service, which we trust and hope may become useful to you in the future, an I may. perchance occasionally remind y..u of the many pleasant anil happy incidents that miy have occurred d U nii L > your res donee amongst us. U is very much tp i.e regretted that yon hive not hern in t h o ei j -yui-iit of good health, but we Inpe teat y m may. by a change rf air and rest main your former strung hj and vigour, and be able ipr.sum.; ynurdutie- of n.a-fo’ness in training the youthful mind. We ennn it allow you to d. put, after your l og hene l ri-si leno t of abut eight ye.ais. without fX-ressing our very great e-teem for yon. Yet liave been ever willing m assit ae far a- lay in y oir power in ail matters for the pub ic .good Yur devotion to your p o'e-si ui has been am dy i lmuaied »y tiro improvement and advance-no t of the children under your chirge Yin have I ft an example in the sehodro-m, the (Jlnireli, ami your mivate life wed ib-serv-m-g of im tation, and we trust that you may loog b spared l-y a good an I inercifii Proviilfi-.ee to| i rj y the very great prni le oge of doing go bch’-y example mid "lecep', .an I that your future career may Ire-as ireful as urea* a Messing p, v.-maeit and others as h-J pa<t has been. T e lie' - . J Clldstie replied on behalf of Miss Dirton allude, I lo the high i siimalion in which she was hj Id by the children, Ihe parents, and the people of ihe ditliict generally, and that she left with the ignod wi!‘of a) for her future we'f ire. Mr Mepie exp eased the regret he felt at her 'earing, an i all the more so on the account of other chan cs—of t e time who had labonre I for -so many years together he was the oii'v one remaining A vote of thinks to thechiir ni--n and others who had tnk-n part in the affiirwliieh was moved l>y Mi J. Smith an ‘ heartily res moled to, brought the pro ceediugs to a close.