WHENUAKURA SCHOOL.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 974, 20 December 1882, Page 2

WHENUAKURA SCHOOL.

The termination of the school year on Friday, 15th inst., was the occasion of a school feast. Nearly all the parents and many friends were present, and by their united kindness the board was loaded with cakes of many varieties, while they had also handed to the teacher for distribution a number of prizes unusually large for so small a school. After the young people had stowed away as many sweets as they conveniently could, they repaired to the school grounds, where some sport in the shape of races &c. took place. The children then gave the company some little idea of their powers of recitation and choral singing, after which Mrs Honeyfield was kind enough to accede to the request that she would present the prizes to the pupils to whom they had been awarded. Regular attendance was given a prominent place in the list. No pupils received the Ist class certificate of the Education Department for attendance, which is awarded only to those who have been present on every half day on which the school has been, open ; but two 2nd Class certificates were obtained for having been present on all but five half-days. After giving cheers for their kind and thoughtful friends and their teacher, the children dispersed. Later in the evening many of the residents of the district, and some friends from town, assembled to take part in, a dance. Messrs Hodder (violin) and Brown (clarionet) contributed the music, assisted during a short interval by Master Daniel Sheaban (violin). If laughter and jocularity are any guides to the moods of men—-a merry company was there assembled; and, as for the dancing—well, it was dancing none of yonr sauntering through the sets, or dreaming through the “ circulars,” but good old standard motion that made the boards bend again. But the best met must part, and shortly after the stroke of twelve the dancers wended their ways to their respective ingles. Cordial.thanks are due to all were kind enough to give prizes for Friday, and also to those who assisted in supplying the tables and making the necessary preparations.