THE ESSAY COMPETITION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 624, 3 December 1913, Page 5

THE ESSAY COMPETITION.

- -o T!;:;{ 'the date for opening the essays inviirll i'.v {bo To Knili Chamber of Commerce riiiuiHl bsvp had to be alterra iV regret lubJc Probably the geneml ides; wit thni Ihere would be so many o'Urr.r.l* Unit the chance of winnine; j»'i:x \vit«s inlinitesimal, but a inon-enf;* 'bought to the geographical jimiiniTou of fho contest should have -cllfii any wich notion. Much smiiile): pri;:e:- are daily competed for bv over much larger areas. Had there boon even the semblance nf competition (be prizes would have boon :s\vr.n:>'d. but as not sufficient w; : n ; received to equal the number of p-i -:cs. awards were out of the our-Ft ion. It is to be hoped (hat she .'vi! of ihe delay in receiving ami judging the essays will r > grorJ. in the number of entrant!*. Jo, one i?ohool lessons were fiven on 'bo r-übjoct, and the chiltfron v.-r;r r-fierwurds Si : t. to Write t-wr.vp, she i ; or'v being selected and fonvatued. Thi»; example is worthy of emulation, and touchers who follow it. may bo auro of some small token for at least one of the. competitors, whether the main prizes for their grade falls to their school or not.