CENTENNIAL COMPETITION FOR SCHOOLS
REGIONAL SURVEY '' J It is reported in the “New Zealand Centennial News” that, as part of the Centennial Celebrations, the Government has set aside the' sum of £2OO for a competition for which all schools throughout/the Dominion are eligible to compete. After consulta,tipn between members of the Centennial Branch of the Department of Internal .Affairs and the Education Department it was decided that the com/petition should be for Regional Surveys and that schools, and not individuals,should compete. Prizes will bo awarded to schools, and) pupils who have collaborated in producing a survey will have the satisfaction of sharing a. prize which they will have collectively won for their school.
t The schools of tire Dominion have been divided into seven classes and sections, according to size and type. Technical and secondary ‘schools; form one class, Native schools another. The secondary departments of district high schools are divid'ed into two sections, primary and intermediate sphools infp three, ensuring that all schools compete wijjp pther schools of a comparable type and size. But in practice (there is nothing to prevent ( tlie{ best) work being done by the smallest couiiffy school, as success in producing' regional surveys for this competition will depend not so much or, I the equipment and facilities available as on the scope and intellectual timbre of the whole conception.
Though teaclier.s are expressly barred iby the rules pf the com petition from preparing the regional surveys entered in the competition by their schools, they may quite proper«ti the wfetbWial committee o'/cfsfeeifig the coyest iim and presenof data for purvey, and their guidance may often be a decisive of the havej tb gjjve as free a choice j *til to *ySitißl4 '•' in the choice'
of a subject for a regional survey. A school might choose the whole history of- a district-, though such a wide attack might prove unwise. It might equally well choose to write a survey of the present condition of an im-poi-tqnt local industry. Though inevitabjy^'inost. surveys will begin .with oiy_ incorporate an historical ; outline, there is no express Obligation, on ■ schools entering for the competition to -write historical surveys.
Surveys may place their emphasis on present-day trends or on past episodes at the discretion of the entering school. The present, after all, alone gives value to the past. The surveys may he embellished with paintings, drawings, photographs, . graphs, diagrams', vorr anything that the entering school “considers relevant-.. Presentation of entries will be taken into account by the judges.
centennial pageantry ' i REQUEST FOR PERIOD CLOTHES :; ; i' 5 i ■; v . j _ , •*, • > Costume will play an important' pail in the Centennial pageantry that will ttuin a feature of our celebrations in so many places next year (states the “New Zealand Centennial News”). 'Where, the pageantry is of an historic character it is essential that the clothes of the actors should be correct. If., actual costumes worn in by-gone days could be used the^Ti 3 terest would be increased and thc^irtistic effect heightened. • New-mlothos never carry quite the' conviction as old.one.s. In, many New Zealand homes there must be, folded away in boxes,; perhaps, old clothes which would l be invaluable at (this time. Already requests for uniforms, naval and military, from 1840 onwards are reaching Centennial headquarters, and inquiries are frequently received for the crinolines and bustles that our grandmothers and greafgranJmofliers TVOiCv with such grace. Generous citizens who could give or lend such costumes for Centennial pageants in their districts, or for National pageants, are asked to communicate with the National Director of Pageantry, Centennial Branch. Internal Affairs Department. Wellington. A_ description ; of articles ol’ attire available would he appreciated. The period it is desired to cover is, roughly, from* 1840 to 1900. and, of course, Vlothes for .men, women, and children will he welcomed. Boots and shoes, sunshades, and ether aocessor-
ies are difficult to obtain and should not be overlooked. , >
REVIVALS OF OLD BATTLES NOT DESIRABLE IN CENTENNIAL PAGEANTRY . . . In the “New Zealand Centennial News”, the Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, states that the re-enactment- of battles of the oldwars Jn this country, is not desirable in Centennial pageantry. “Onei of the main purposes of the Centennial celebrations is to show that the Maori and the pakelia have left behind them the few old disputes which occasionally led to bloodshed, and are linked now in friendliness to assure an increasing measure of prosperity and happiness - for New Zealand,” says the Minister. “Anything which tends, to give reminders of old troubles should have no- place; in tho 1* pageantry Ybut, of course, the various events of the past, century won let have proper accurate mention' in tlie histones \ The Minister remarks that he is emphatically supported in his view by a Centennial message which Mr, Ivor To Puni, of AVaikawa Pa, Picton (a direct descendant of the. famous Honiana To Puni), sent to the Right Hon. M. J. Savage. “The hardships, the bloodshed,"‘'between the pakelia and Maori have now, a hundred years after, been healed,” wrote Mr. Tc -puni. “Evcn'bloodshed between Maori and Maori lias also been healed through tlie march of civilisation. To-day the token of greeting between the pakeha and! Maori is. ‘Tatou Tatou’.”
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