SCHOOL FLAG CUP WON BY NORTHCOTE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 120, 11 August 1927, Page 9

SCHOOL FLAG CUP WON BY NORTHCOTE

ERIC CHARMAN’S ESSAY The winner this year of the School Flag Cup, given by Major R. G. Cox in 1921 for annual essay competitions among pupils of primary schools in the Auckland district, was Master Eric James Charman, aged 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Charman, of Ocean View Road, Northcote). The subject this year was “The Flag in Polar Exploration.” The presentation of the cup to the Junior High School, of which Master Eric Charman is a pupil, was made yesterday afternoon by Mr. J. P. MePhail, a member of the Auckland Education Board and chairman of the Junior High School Committee. Two prefects. Miss Rae Moore and Master Harold Boardman, received the

cup on behalf of their school. In handing the winner the gold medal, which accompanies the cup, Mr. McPhail said the judges had been greatly impressed with the merit of the essay, which they had described as “remarkably good.” Congratulations were extended by the Mayor of Northcote, Mr. A. E. Greenslade, and an address was also given by the headmaster, Mr. W. J. Wernham. Last year the subject was “Our Flag and the Part it Played in Colonial Expansion,” the winner being Miss Flora Macdonald, of Cornwall Park School.