PATUTAHI NEWS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20123, 18 December 1939, Page 6

PATUTAHI NEWS

j SCHOOL PRIZE-GIVING

MANY PARENTS PRESENT

(ITovald Correspondent.)

At tiie prize-giving ceremony which took place at the Patutahi School at fl.e end of last week, tiie headmaster, ,Mr .D. S. McNaughton, congratulated Aii. R. .Vilhams on his forthcoming marriage and in a happy speech n ade a presentation from the staff ar.d pupils of Ihe school. Mr. Williams suitably replied.

There was a large gathering of parents present. Mr. T. W. Sewell, chairman ol the school committee before presenting the prizes, congratulated the staff on the successful year's work.

rhe prize list was as follows:

Primers, Class Work,—Primer 1A: Kongo Tarnatea. Primer IB: Janet C; meron. Primer IIA: Ilawea Terekia, 1, Leslie Ladd and Winnie Cameron, equal 2. Primer IIB: Annie Hiko, 1; Grace McGaveston, 2.

Standard 1. —Pamela Menzies, 1; Mervyn McFarlane. 2; Beverly Crisp, 2 Progress: Mere Edwards. Industry: Dawson Tarnatea. Sewing: Girls. Patty Lawlor. Boys. Eric Braybrook.

Standard 3. —Noelle Burgess. 1: Wereta Srniler. 2; Gordon Fair 3 Progress: Dinah Sewell.

Standard IV.—Phillip McLaughlin, 1: Judith Menzies, 2; Joan Braybrook, 3 Progress: Molly Butler. Standards 111 and IV.—Sewing: Judith Menzies.

Gardening.—Selw.vn Wagner and Stuart Robb, 1; Joe Atkins, lan Atkins and Douglas Bull, 2. Special Prize for hardest Woi'ker.— Allan Atkins.

_ Form 1. —English: Marie Sewell. Arithmetic: Graeme McNaughton. Progress: Dorothy McCliskie, Helen Weatherley. Moira Wells. Geography and Hist ivy; Bruce Menzies. Gardening: Brine Menzies and Peter Dods, 1; Sidney Srniler, 2; Ron Atkins and Ashley Braybrook. equal 3; Stuart Monleith and Jim Ritchie, equal, 5. Sportsmanship: Peter Dods. Forms 1 and ll.—Sewing: Patricia Mawson and Shirley Worsnop, equal, 1. Industry: Verna Judd. Neatness: Shirley Knight and Jocelyn Crisp. Gardening, Girls: Edna Lange, 1. .loan Mulloojy. 2.

Form II. —Dux: Nora Seymour, 1; Verna Judd, 2; Norman Hall, 3. Neatness and Industry: Colleen Baty.

Mrs. Crookes, who lias been ' isiting her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Montoilh, has returned to Waipukurau.— Miss Jean Monleith has left for Hawke's Bay to spend the school vacation. The Misses P. and A. Atkins and Master T. Atkins, who attend college in Auckland, have arrived home for the school holidays.