TE KUITI SCHOOL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 321, 17 December 1910, Page 5

TE KUITI SCHOOL.

+ The following is the for the school year just ended:—Sewing, Hazel McNaught and Elsie Corban; highest aggregate marks for year : Standard 1., Hina Waamu and Pearlie Walsh; Standard 11., Harold Mabbett and Eva Lewis; Standard 111., Wyly Bayly and Mabel Power; Standard IV., Kapua Hetet and Elsie Power; Standard V., Geo. Forsyth and Una Mabbett; Standard VI., Tom Hetet and Elsie Mabbett. Class List.—Standard 1., Pearlie ■Walsh 1, Dorothy Reardon 2, Colin McNaught 3, Hina Waamu 4, Aleck. Nicholson 5, William Southberg 6; Standard 11., Harold Mabbett, Eva Lewis, Alice Berkahn, Ivy Marshall, Harold Reardon, Cyril Lomas; Standard 111., Jennie Forsyth, Mabel Power, Wilfred Cantlon, Sam. Ormsby, Florrie Lineham, George Osborne; Standard IV., Elsie Power, Kathleen Mathew, Mary Turora, Willie King, Kapua Hetet, Freda Bowden; Standard V., Una Mabbett, Elsie King, Geo. Forsyth. Norman Farrell, Myra Petherick, Campbell Stanton; Standard VI., Hazel McNaught, (Tom Hetet and Hamish Mathew), Ivan McNaught, Francis Berkahn, Elsie Mabbett.

Primer Clases.—Primer 111., Mary Rewatu, George Raweneta, Maggie Carnell, Grace Berkahn, Norman Cantlon, Arthur Turner; Primer 11., Freda Nicholson, Kahu Tukau, Wehe Wehe, Millicent Lawson, Mark Cantlon, Irene Power; Primer 1., Robert Scott, Eliza Tumahoe, Jean Petherick, Marama Wallace, Tom. Lawson, James Bell.

THE PICNIC. Unfortunate weather completely spoiled the arrangements for the school picnic yesterday afternoon. The committee, the teachers, and a number of lady friends, had provided ample provision for the inner man—or rai-her, boy and girl—and had only fine weather come, the school sports would have been held as usual. As things turned out, the heavens opened, the rain descended, and with scarcely an intermission continued the whole of the afternoon. Children are notoriously adaptable, and it would be untrue to say they did not enjoy themselves. For that occasion only—as the theatrical pesters say—they enjoyed themselves to the full, shouting and making all possible noises within the class-rooms, which must be a pronounced contrast to the ordinary day's proceedings. The weather kept few of them at home, either, and so eager were some of the younger na tive children to be present that they were arriving at 7.30 a.m. ! It must have proved a long and tiring day to the teachers and their helpers. But the longest day wears away, and after a substantial tea in the afternoon, preceded by games of various kinds indoors, the Rev. R. Mitchell, chairman of the School Committee, distributed the prizes to the successful scholars. Mr Mitchell then called for three cheers for the teachers, which were heartily given; and Mr Power in return asked for three cheers for the school committee and the ladies, which were equally heartily offered. Mr Mitchell invited the children to return to school at 3 p.m. to-day (Saturday) for the purpose of finishing up the buns, and announced that on the first Friday after school reassembles, the school sports would be held. The gathering then dispersed,