CHRISTCHURCH WEST SCHOOLS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 467, 13 December 1875, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH WEST SCHOOLS.

The annual distribution of prizes took place last Friday on the occasion of the breaking up for the Christmas holidays. In the absence of the chairman of the school committee, Professor Bickerton, by request, kindly consented to act as distributor. The Professor, before proceeding with the presentation, delivered an interesting address. He exhorted thrm to be diligent, in their youth; the season in wh'cb, by mental culture, they were to lay upastoie of knowledge that would rapidly double and redouble itself. He then showed them the immense advantages of a good education ; how the man whose education had been neglected was compelled to do the hardest manual labor, and could thereby earn in a week only as much as the man of cultivated intellect could in a day. He reminded them also that it is not always the cleverest boys who get the prizes, but those who are the most industrious at their studies; that the man with moderate abilities and plenty of perseverance soon outstripped another who was clever but afflicted with laziness. He hoped that they would continue to take an interest in their education, and that ere long he would find some of their names on the roll of the Canterbury College as matriculated students of the New Zealand University. The following is the prize list:— GIRLS' SCHOOL. Class Vl—Senior Division —l, Kate Alexander ; 2, Edith Dunnage. Class Vl—Middle Division—l, Margaret Menzies ; 2, Jane Eastwood ; prize for maps, Sarah Taylor ; to be commended, Ague | Hepburn, Elizabeth Kissel, Joanna Mcintosh, J Jane iiusscll.

Class Vl—Lower Division—l, Maggie Lusk ; 2, Jessie Menzies and Maggie Craig, equal ; prize for maps, Louisa Gee ; needlework, Agnes Menzies; to be commended, Janet Donald, Eleanor Edwards, Lillias Scott, Adeline Kennedy, Janet Lusk ; mental arithmetic, Jaue Eastwood.

Class V—Upper Division—l, Ellen Sanders ; 2, Hester Conn on ; 3, Jessie Nairn ; needlework, Emma Vickery; to be commended, Rachel Midgley, Annie Brown, Sarah Evans, Mary Sanders. Class V Lower Division —l, Minnie Smith ; 2, Laura KiDgsford; to be commended, Louisa Drayton, Ellen McCallum, Mary Ick, Jessie Galloway. Class IV—Upper Division—l, Elizabeth Parkyn ; 2, Annie Berg ; 3, Lizzie Taylor ; 4, Harriet Starkiss ; to be commended, Emily Sanders, Katie Hallamore, Flora Potter, Florence Hunsley, Elizabeth Diggle. Class IV Lower Division —l, Agnes Paterson ; 2, Eliza Jamieson ; needlework, Annie Lunt; to be commended, Henrietta Cranston, Mary Ann Reece, Jessie McDowell, Sarah Neill, Emmie Coom. Class lll—Upper Division—l. Ellen Bantam ; 2, Alice Clarke; 3, Ellen Whyte. Needlework—Sophia Jemmett; to be commended, Annie Williams. Class lll—Lower Division —1, Francis Turnbull: 2, Lizzie McHalden; to be commended, Annie De la Cour, Fanny Wright, Jeanie Luckie, Eliza Moore. Infant Department—Class ll—l, Anna Kissel ; 2, Ellen Mason ; 3, Annie Brown ; 4, Ella Brown ;5, Ada Wells; 6, Minnie Clegg ; 7, Mary Haydon. Class I—l, Maria Smith ; 2. Agnes Spiers; 3, Susan Brown ; 4, Edith Walker ; 5, Annie Brunsden ; 6, Clara Ayers ; 7, Ellen Starkiss; 8, Elizabeth Woods. During the course of the year a silver medal, bearing an appropriate inscription, was presented to Master Charles Chilton, as dux of the West Christchurch schools, 1875. UPPER BOYS' SCHOOL. Class Vl—Upper Division—l, John Tait ; 2, Louis Cowen ; to be commetded, Arthur Mayne, Charles Caverhill, David Nairn. Class Vl—Middle Division—l, William McNicol ; 2, Alexander Hay ; to be commended, William Jameson, F. Manning. Class Vl—Lower Division —l, Henry Heard ; 2, William Haliburton ; to be commended, Frank Sisson, Frank Brown. Class V —Upper Division—l, James Tait; 2, William Baiker ; 3, D. S. Potter ; to be commended, E. Wilkinson, William Aiken, William Skelton. Class V—Lower Division—l, Lawrence Wilson ; 2, David Lusk ; 3, John Heard ; to be commended, John Neill, Logan Paterson, James Lyon. SPECIAL PRIZES FOR UPPER SCHOOL. Latin—Class 1^ —1, D. Nairn ; 2, Henry Hobdcn. Class lII—I, E. Cane ;2, E. Williams. Class II —1, William Midgley ; 2, William Haliburton, Class I—l, James Tait; 2, William Barker. Maps- Class Vl—l, Thomas Boag ;2, E. Cane ;3, Charles Caverhill; 4, J. Withell ; 5, L. Cohen ; 3, H. Heard ; to be commended, H. Hen wood and J. fc-'mith. Class V Upper E. Wilkinson. Lower —G. Rankin. Mental Arithmetic—l, Maurice Cohen ; 2, Charles Chilton ; 3, Edgar Winter. BOYS' MIDDLE SCHOOL. Class IV—Upper Division—l, John Smith; 2, Robert Wood ; 3, Albert Allen and John Anderson, equal ; special prize to Fred Godfrey ; to be commended, George Skelton and William Higgs. Class IV—Lower Division—l, George Lummis and Geo. Faulkner, equal ; 2, Ed. Butcher; to be commended, William Hancock and George Smith. Class lll—Upper Division—l, Alex. Taylor; 2. Arthur Parr ; 3 Frank Evans ; 4, Fred. Jas. Hitchings. Class lll—Lower Division—l, Chas. Forty , 2, Arthur Drayton ; 3, Lawrence Cane ; 4, John Berg. Mental arithmetic prize to Alex- Taylor. BOYS' LOWER SCHOOL. Class ll—l, James Heath; 2, Thomas Goodchild ; 3, William Allen ; 4, Henry Willis ; 5, John Midgley ; 6, Chas Smith ; 7, John M-mson ; 8, Theophilus Cox ; 9, Geo Manifold. Class 1-1, Ed. Eastwood ; 2, Alf Sutton ; 3, Sidney Waters ; 4, James Walker; 5, George Philpot; ti, Henry Smith ; J, George Lavender ; 8, Wm Allison. At the close of the distribution the Rev J. Cumming, head master, said that he had been deputed by the senior class of the girls' school to do what was to him a source of very great pleasure. Miss Brittan had as yet been with them but a very short time ; nevertheless, he felt it his duty to confess that in that short period his estimation and regard for their head mistress had daily increased, and he was highly pleased to find that the girls had shown their appreciation of her labors by subscribing amongst themselves and presenting her with a gold locket. Professor Bickerton then intimated that the vacatiou would last six weeks, the school re-opening on Monday, the 24th of January, 1876. The proceedings were terminated by three hearty cheers for the Professor.