TAKAPUNA GRAMMAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 230, 17 December 1927, Page 5

TAKAPUNA GRAMMAR

FIRST PRIZE-GIVING PROGRESS OF NEW SCHOOL That they should primarily establish their physical health and then live up to the advantages of education afforded to them, was the excellent advice tendered to scholars of trie Takapuna Grammar School yesterday afternoon by Professor A. P. W. Thomas, chairman of the Auckland Grammar School Board. For want ot an assembly hall the school prize-giving took place in the open air. Professor Thomas, who presided addressed the guests and scholars upon the difficulties and satisfactory results which had attended the first year of school work, and stressed the need for an assembly ha jn his annual report, the headmaster ATr C M Littlejohn, stated the school wls opened in February last with 218 hov and girl pupils, of whom 132 were beginning their secondary education, and the year closed with a roll of .1-. The school offered three courses of instruction: (1) The academic or professional course; (2) the commercial course; and (3) housecraft for girls who Wore not aiming a buslness or professional careers. High Praise i, a d been won by the school cadets, and under Ur J. Thompson, one of the masters, there were the beginnings of a ?ft°h C e "of his address Mr. J. w Williamson, Mayor of Takapuna, undertook to bripg the question of a school reference library before the citizens of Takapuna in the hope of Shfaininsr the nucleus of a library as a tt-ee Sift to the school. He also Promised to see that Takapuna prodded a silver cup as a school sports Mr. E. Aldridge, Mayor of Levon port promised that next year at wit one volume from Devonport .should be added to the school prize lis L 9 prizes as published in THE SUN were presented by Professor Thomas, - " '