ESSAY COMPETITION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 645, 21 February 1914, Page 6

ESSAY COMPETITION.

Following is the first prize eßßay in the clasß for schools with a roll number of over fifty, in the competition promoted by the Te Kuiti Chamber of Commerce. The essay was written by Roy Weston, a twevle year-old boy attending the Mangapeehi school:—

"The district of Te Kuiti is becoming very important, and will in time be one of the leading centres of the Dominion. We should all try to make the Te Kuiti district as important and well-known as we can, by ordering all our goods from the stores of the town. People are taken to be selfish and mean if they send to Auckland and Hamilton for their goods because the articles are liable to be broken or lost in the journey from the store to the Btation. If we thought how much easier and patriotic it would be if we bought all our goods from Te Kuiti it would be very useful to make the board richer and so it would be able to improve and make roads. In Te Kuiti we may get almost anything we wish, and we can pick them, whereas if we send to Auckland they may give us some article that \b shop-rotten and will tear very easily. Another reason in picking your on goods is if we Bend away for one article, and the ownerß have not got it in stock, they will send us up another kind which is of no use. If we send to Auckland for our goods we must get a large stock of articles at once, and spend all our money. To avoid this we could go or send an order to Te Kuiti once a week, and we need get Bmall quantities each time. If we spend all our money in Te Kuiti we will make the town richer, and the surrounding land will become of greater value. The farmers would become of greater importance, and probably more people would settle in the country. We must not think that because we get our goods from the Bhops that the money is kept in the hands of the shop owners. No; a certain sum has to be paid as a tax and when there are enough taxes to make a loan it is lent out to other counties, and when the money is repaid with the interest added to it, there is enough to pay for the making of a road. We now see the advantage aof doing one's business in Te Kuiti. —"SCHOLAR, Mangapehi, School, Standard VI., aged 12 years."