COMPETITION RESULTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 22

COMPETITION RESULTS

ESSAY First prize (girls): Marjorie Hetherington (aged 14), 70 Wairiki Road, Mount Eden, Auckland. First prize (boys): Ross Laurenson (aged 7), Beckenham Avenue, Auckland. Highly commended: Jessie Milne, Birkenhead; Merle Maloney, Grey Lynn; Hilda All - ington, Hamilton; Fruda Richards, Papatoetoe; Thelma Morrison, Morningside; Ailsa MacKenzie, Auckland; D. Yates, Mount Eden; Hilda Wren, Epsom. Commended: Thelma Parnis, Ponsonby; Isabel Davis, Auckland; P. Levens, Mount Eden; Cissy Williamson, Auckland; E. Hodges, Otahuhu; L. Snow, Remuera. POETRY First prize: Vera Thornhill (aged 14), The Manse, Beckham Place, Auckland. Highly commended: Merle Maloney, Grey Lynn; Madeline Pyne, Christchurch ; Loris Chilwell, Auckland; Gladys Matheson, Ponsonby; Valerie Y. Anderson, Epsom; Kathleen Scott, Takapuna; Athol McLachlan, Kingsland; Beulah Kelly, Parnell; Jessie Milne, Birkenhead; Marjorie Hetherington, Mount Eden; Phyllis Yates, Mount Eden; Gwen Goldsmith, Otahuhu. Iris Jackson. Commended: Eveline Hodges, Otahuhu; Esther Bonkier; Ponsonby; Enid Billings, Epsom; Doreen Preston, Grey Lynn; Violet Parkes, Takapuna; Harry Keesing, Ellerslie; William Aitken, Devonport; Betty Anderson, Mount Eden; Patricia Snow, Remuera. Several Sunbeams mistook the conditions and sent the Dawn Lady copied-out poems, but these of course could not be included in the competition. DRAWING First equal: Catherine Yeoman (aged 14), 15 Jutland Rd., Takapuna, Auckland; and Marie Kissel (aged 14), 67 Central Terrace, Kelburn, Wellington. Highly commended: A. F. Rowe, Remuera; David Corban, Grey Lynn; Anne Holloway, Mount Roskill; Eileen Mars, Mount Eden; Madeline Pyne, Christchurch; Lilian Whittle, Grey Lynn; Reg Donald, Matamata; Clarice Turner, Frankton Junction; Eileen Humphrey, Point Chevalier; Marie Kissel, Wellington (second entry); Nancy Tombs, Auckland; Fruda Richards, Papatoetoe; Constance Wright, Morrinsville; Jessie Milne, Birkenhead. Commended: Clem Johnson, Grey Lynn; Patricia Snow, Remuera; Ken Turner, Grey Lynn; Phyllis Levens, Mount Eden; Athol McLachlan, Kingsland; Phyllis Rea, Grey Lynn; D. Snow, Remuera; Gwendoline Goldsmith, Otahuhu; Geoff Cummings, Mount Albert; Louise Snow, Remuera.

THREE SMILES Mrs. Ostrich: “Who has been eating my plums and throwing the stones on the floor?” Miss Ostrich: “I haven’t, mamma. I swallowed all mine.” Teacher: “Now, Jackie, if there were five apples on a plate and your little sister took two, how many would be left?” Jackie: “None, because I’d eat the rest.” Teacher: “Freddy, why are you late for school?” Freddy: “Please, teacher, my bootlace broke.” Teacher: “That’s a poor excuse.” Freddy: “Well, teacher, I couldn’t think of a better one.” —Sent in by Nola Craig.