PRESENTATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4039, 9 January 1930, Page 2

PRESENTATION.

TO MR. FRANK PROCTER. Mlilli the closing doAvn of the Tangitu School (King Country) last month for the school holidays, the pupils and school committee foregathered to bid farewell to their teacher, Mr. Frank Procter, (son of Mjr. and Mrs. F. Procter, of Purcell Street, Foxton), who after three years in charge of the Tangitu school has been transferred to another part. My. J. Jones (chairman) expressed the regret „f the pupils and parents : ,!id school committee at Air. Profiler's transfer from Tangitu. On behalf of the pupils Air. Proctor was presented with a bank note and card case and Air. Broadfoofc mi behalf of the committee asked him to accept a set of military brushes, clothes brush, shaving brush and comb, all suitably engraved and handed Mm the follow-

ing letter: — “Mr. F. If. Procter. —-Dear Sir: AVc, the undersigned members of I lie Tangiiu District School Committee. desire to place on record our keen regret at your departure from tins district, and more especially from the -position of teacher at the Tangitu school. The manner in which you-have carried out the dulies required of you is worthy of our deepest appreciation. Ample evidence of your efficiency in this direction is to be seen in the very high standard of work produced by the pupils, and the habits of selfreliance and industry developed by them is a sufficient indication of your litness as a teacher. To have ( ngemleired into the school life of your pupils those important principles —order, attention and discipline —proves that you have the essential qualities in a teacher, namely, love of children, hope, patience, decision, dignity, tact, and that most important of all qualities in a teacher, study of child-na-lure. To 'have fulfilled vour duties .■o efficiently, and still remain so popuar amongst your pupils is something you can be proud of, and is further evidence of your painstaking and patient efforts with those under your control. AYe sincerely trust that the three years you have spent at the Tangitu school will mean stepping* stones to higher things in your future career as a teacher. — (Signed), J. Jones (chairman), W. F. Hopkins, W. F. Weavers, J. \V. Andrew, L. P. Crosbv (committeemen).”

Following this presentation a wad of money was handed to Air. Procter, contributed-by the public in token of the esteem felt for him by the whole district. Air. Procter feelingly* replied and in the donors for their handsome gifts < \pressed bis regret at having to sever such pleasant and congenial associations.

The evening concluded with a • lance, and was pro clnimor] one of Die best experienced in tho ii'/cf.