PRESENTATION TO TEACHER

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 646, 1 July 1921, Page 9

PRESENTATION TO TEACHER

• «o»departure of miss grant. 'i 4 :ast services appreciated. function at papatoetoe. All the school children and a iarge tpaber of parents and householders Papatoetoe assembled at the local hoolroom on Thursday afternoon, lne 28, to make a presentation to iss Grant, a teacher of the school, i the occasion of her departure from district.

Miss Grant <had been teaching at Pol, for. upwards of ten years, ng that time she had seen ol grow, with the developthe district, from a small

HPmg accommodating somewhat =>s than 100 pupils to a modern unicipal building with seven rooms id p roll call of about 400. She id taught thert longer than any acher still remaining on the staff, id the general appreciation of her ork was shown, especially among ie school children themselves, by ie amoiint which was contributed to jy the presents. This totalled ap■oximately £l3.

Mr F. M. Waters, chairman of the :hool Committee, occupied the inir. He made the presentation' tq Grant of a suit case, a writing fSe, and a handbag oiPthe children’s shalf, and a book of Ella Wheeler llCcx's poems handsomely bound in ilf was presented, on behalf of the aching staff by the headmaster of ie school, Mr H. P. Andrews. Tributes From Residents.

Mr Waters, in making.the gift, said lat it was a, token of appreciation ! Miss Grant’s work, and they all sgretted that she was leaving them. n behalf of the householders he exressed gratitude for her untiring irvices She had been at the school uring some difficult times, as in the aidemic of influenza in 1918 and ocisional outbreaks of a milder nature bee that time, but she was always

t her post* Mr Andrews said that Miss Grant’s Lotto had always been “duty,” and Me ha h carried it out faithfully and >nscientiously.

she Rev. C. E. Porter, vicar of St. aim’s Presbyterian Church, speaking com the standpoint of a resident nd citizen, said he could not but apreciate the work of the departing aachef.

Miss Grant suitably responded to ie many tributes to her industry nd intelligence.

Miss Grant will shortly take up a new position which has been offered her by the Auckland Education Board at the Maungaturoto school, entering upon her duties, after the holidays. Miss Grant will have a somewhat similar position in her new environments